RIOTS IN EGYPT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22269, 18 November 1935, Page 12

RIOTS IN EGYPT

STUDENTS ON STRIKE FEELING AGAINST BRITAIN (Received November 17, 8.45 p.m.) CAIRO, Nov. 10 Lawyers have decided to strike and also to protest to the League of Nations against British " interference in Egypt." Egyptian infantry are guarding public buildings. Students, wearing mourning armlets in memory of the victims in the riots, demonstrated in yarious centres, including Cairo, Shibinelkorn and Zagazig. The police fired, wounding 15, one of whom died. The death roll is now seven. Four thousand students, including girls, resolved to continue the strike. The Minister of Education has closed the industrial technical schools until December 31. PROTESTS BY WAFDS NOTE TO THE LEAGUE PREMIER DEFENDS HIS POLICY (Received November 17, 5.5 p.m.) CAIRO, Nov. 16 A resolution passed by the Wafd Party is being forwarded to the League of Nations. It protests against Sir Samuel Hoare's speech in the Guildhall as being incompatible with Egypt's rights and as provocative of the recent disturbances. Also the Note protests against Nessim Pasha's continuance in office as Prime Minister. Nessim has issued a long statement in defence of his Ministry's policy. This reveals the fact that Sir Miles Lampson, the High Commissioner in Egypt, on October 18 declared it to be inopportune to attempt to reach a permanent settlement of Anglo-Egyptian relations, which Nessim, at the time of the Abyssinian crisis, had linked with Egypt's request to assume the defence of her own territory. OFFICER'S BRAVERY tFACED CAIRO MOB ALONE SERIOUS RIOT AVERTED CAIRO, Nov. 15 An eye-witness of the incident in which a British police officer, Bimbashi Lees, who is a New Zealander, sent a mob of 1500 angry rioters fleeing before him relates how one man averted what might have been a serious disturbance. When Bimbasni Lees learned that the mob was advancing he rushed with 80 policemen to hold the Abbas Bridge till reinforcements arrived. A solid mass of students, armed with sticks and iron bars, reached the bridge. Lees advanced alone and ordered them to disperse. They replied with stones and yells of "Kill himt" One student struck him on the head with an iron bar. Lees thereupon felled the aggressor with the butt of his shotgun, but other students seized the gun and again struck him. Lees then used his revolver, killing one and wounding four.