THE EGYPTIAN PLOT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15055, 26 July 1912, Page 7

THE EGYPTIAN PLOT.

CONSPIRATORS' CONFESSIONS. "FOILED AT EVERY STEP." ATTEMPT TO SHOOT LORD KITCHENER. .., RINGLEADER "PARALYSED." By Telegraph.— Association.—Copyright. Cairo, July 24. j The newspapers publish confessions | by those concerned in the recent plot j against the Khedive, Lord Kitchener and the Premier. The conspirators declare that they were foiled at every step owing to the presence of police. Arabi, the ringleader, states that he was waiting at the railway station to shoot Lord Kitchener, but the strict supervision suggested that his intentions were known, and he was thwarted. It was impossible, Arabi says, to approach Lord Kitchener when he entered his motor car, and he therefore ran and stood at the outer gate. : :■': The car passed so quickly and the aide-de-camp, Captain Fitzgerald, looked at him so intently that he felt that he was paralysed. •A NATIONALISTS' CONSPIRACY. Last month four Nationalists swore over v the tomb of Ibrahim Wardani, the assassin of Boutros Pasha (formerly Premier of Egypt) to destroy the Nationalists' enemies. One undertook to /kill the Khedive, another Lord Kitchener, a third the Premier, and the fourth volunteered to replace any of the previous three who 1 failed. Detectives shadowed the gang, and '■ overheard the plot, the result being the arrest of three Nationalists. A later cablegram stated that startling correspondence in connection with the. plot had been discovered. Some of the letters emanated from Hassan Camel, brother of the late founder of the Al Lewa Nationalist .. newspaper. Hassan was arrested. Subsequently two of the men who were first arrested were released These men whose names are Mahmudranizi and Abdullahma Sabahi, have given evidence against Makid, one of the chief conspirators. Arabi, who is mentioned in to-day's message, is a notorious Nationalist, and ,is , also connected with the Al Lewa newspaper.