BLOODSHED IN EGYPT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20618, 17 July 1930, Page 11

BLOODSHED IN EGYPT.

ALEXANDRIA RIOT.

HEAVY CASUALTY LIST,

iMOB OUT OF HAND*

SOUTHS STONE POLICE.

gHOTS IN RETALIATION.

J3y Telegrnph—Press Association—Copyright.

(Itcceived July 10. 7.55 p.m.) CAIRO. July 15

A general strike at Alexandria, which ttas instigated as a demonstration of sympathy with tho victims of tho recent riots at Mansourah, got out of hand. Youths broke shop windows and stoned tho poiice amid cheers and cries of ."Long live IN'ah as Pasha." Europeans took refugo in the Stock Exchange building. The police fired on the mob from the roof of the Law Courts, inflicting heavy casualties, the dead being removed in carts. With tho arrival of 700 troops from Cairo tho situation was got nnder control. The number of persons killed is 17, including several Europeans. Four hundred others were wounded.

It is denied that the troops were called put and fired.

The population has been ordered to be indoors early in the evening. Most of the streets are in darkness as the street lamps in the city thoroughfares have been smashed. .

The Prime Minister, Sidky Pasha, and other Ministers arrived at Alexandria and held a council meeting in the evening. They suspended indefinitely the three chief Wafdist newspapers which have been publishing articles against the Government.

The riots at Mansourah occurred on July 8, six people being killed and 48 injured. The ex-Prime Minister, Nahas Pasha, drove his car, with 30 students clinging to it, through the ranks of a police guard. A military cordon with fixed bayonets eventually intervened. The mob used stones and brickbats to assault the troops and later attempted to hang a policeman with a wire noose from • window, but the wire snapped.

!' VICIOUS RIOTERS.

STONES AND BOTTLES USED.

j' POLICE KEPT ON THE RUN.

(Received July 16, 7.55 p.m.) Times Cable. LONDON, July 16. Tho Alexandria correspondent of the Times says the action of the Wafdist committees in ordering a two hours' silence in memory of " the martyrs for the constitution"—as the dead rioters at Mansourah are termed—caused the worst rioting known since 1921. Organised attacks were carried out and cartloads of stones and bottles were thrown at the police who, lacking steel helmets and arms, were kept on tho run. The mob overturned and set fire to three police lorries. Tho police were almost powerless until they climbed on to the roof of the Law Courts and fired volleys into the mob.