ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12725, 22 February 1910, Page 3

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.

EGYPTIAN PREMIER SHOT. A NATIONALIST'S CRIME. j [Press Absooiation — Coptrwht.] (Received Feb 21, 9.30 p.m.) Cairo, Feb 21:^ Wardamy, a Mahomedan > student, fired five shots, seriously : : wounding Bohtros Pasha ,the Egyptian Premier, outside the Foreign Office, at Cairo. The Premier was removed to the hospital. ''.'•'.'■' Nationalist literature was found in f Wardany's pocket, showing that he acted as secretary to the Young Egyptian Congress at Geneva. Hq„ declares that he .desired, to avenge Ithe Denshawai affair, and the ] prolongation of the Suez concession.