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POLITICAL SITUATION IN EGYPT STUDENTS ON STRIKE MANIFESTO DISREGARDED 'United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 28th January, 10.5 ami.) CAIRO, 27th January. Despite their executive’s manifesto pointing out that the political situation is most dangerous and ordering them to be calm, students everywhere are on strike. Those in the arts school made a bonfire of the furniture. Twelve hundred from Giza are marching on the city, where police heavily guard the only negotiable bridge.
UNRULY DEMONSTRATORS FIRED ON BY POLICE (Received 28th January, 12.50 p.m.) CAIRO, (27th January. Students have declared a general strike. There were no clashes in Cairo, where the bridges were opened to prevent the approach of 1200 students from Giza, but the police at Demanhour and Mansura fired on demonstrators, wounding five and twelve respectively. Fifteen police were injured at Mansura.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 28 January 1936, Page 5
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