AN ASSASSINATION.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12772, 20 April 1910, Page 1

AN ASSASSINATION.

[ Details of' the assassination of Boutros Pasha, Prime Minister oi Egypt,: show a striking- parallel between the deed and the murder of Sir William Curzon Wyllie by an ludiaai fanatic. Just as the Premier was stepping into his carriage a young Egyptian came forward, dfew a revolver, and shot him in the hip. The Premiei turned to confront the assassin, \vhereupon the latter sprang at his victim, and holding him with one hand, fired four more shots at him at this close range. Boutros Pasha was at once taken to a mursing home, where four of the bullets were easily extracted. The fifth, however, had entered the abdomen, and the extraction of it proved too great 'a shock the victim dying after a night of. agony. The Khedive was so affected during his interview with the dyin# man, that ho wept, and later on, when apprised of his death, quite broke down, for the dead man had been his life-long friend and trusted adviser. The Cairo correspondent of the "Pall Mall Gazette" says that ono could not imagine a more senseless crime. Boutros Pasha was a most broad-minded and enlightened statesman. He was very able and absolutely honest — a rather rare combination in public men in the East. Almost his last words were, "God knows I have never done anything against the interests of my beloved country." The assassin was a young chemist who had been innoculated with poison similar to that which drove Dhingra to his dreadful deed. After his capture he was most cynical and overbearing in his manner, and openly exulted when he was told his victim was dead. The situation in Egypt closely resembles that in India. The correspondent remarks that few people at Home realise how virulemt the anti-English Press campaign has been. The proposed extension of the Suez Canal concession has aroused the Nationalists to fury. The assassins of Anglo-Indians have been extolled as martyrs. The infamous Dhingra has been hailed as a hero, and patriots have been exhorted to emulate him.