SULTAN OF EGYPT.
A NARROW ESCAPE
CAIRO, April 11. Datails of the attempted assassination ehowjj that the Sultan had a narrow escape. The Grand Master of Ceremonies, noticing a man step into the road called * out to a policeman, who knocked up the assassin's hand, so that the bullet struck the brass work of the hood of the carriage. The miscreant had been m Cairo four miscreant, adopted an attitude of bravado, and said the Sultan wu an usurper and deserved to be shot. The miscreant had been, m Capri four days, awaiting an opportuniltly. He denied having aeeomphceß, but. his cousin has been arrested at Mansurah owing to previous suspicions as to his movements m Constantinople.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13656, 12 April 1915, Page 3
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