“HURRAH FOR DEATH”

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12008, 10 December 1924, Page 8

“HURRAH FOR DEATH”

„ EGYPTIAN PLOTTERS' CRY TALK OF MASSACRING ALL THE BRITISH, • A NIHILIST CLIQUE. Bl Tel ears i>h—Preen A«*n.— CoDcrright (Sydney “San” Cable.) LONDON, Deoemiber 8. The Cairo correspondent of the Daily Mail” says that plotters will Jns difficulty in selecting assassins for London They are hardly likely to escape arrest, and, therefore, they must nof bo deeply initiated into the Nationalist conspiracy for fear of their be fraying important secrets. There is a Nihilist clique attached to,the Nationalist Party here. " TTie' clique holds secret meetings in. the hoases of wealthy Egyptian supporters,' and excite themselves into political hysteria with smuggled oooaine. “Hurrah for death 1” is a common ejaculation at these orgies, in which viqlent criminals, as well as students, participate. All the Egyptian Ministers have reie£ed a circular purporting to he signed (by Army officers expelled from the Sutton, declaring that they intend to a military rising and massacre all the British in Egypt. The circular is regarded as a Nationalist forgery.

M A BRITISH PUPPET”

NEW PREMIER DENOUNCES). . PETITION TO KING,- ? (Sydney '"Sun” Cable.) r CAIRO, December 8. King Fuad having rejected the demand of the Nationalist deputies .that hetshould reassemble Parliament immediately, they are sending another petition, repeating the demand in violent terms, and denouncing Ziwar Pasha, the Premier, as a British puppet.