POLICE STONED

Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1930, Page 11

POLICE STONED

RIOTING AT ALEXANDRIA

SERIOUS CASUALTY LIST

EUROPEANS AMONG DEAD

VOLLEYS FIRED INTO MOB

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.

Bee. 7.20 p.m. Cairo, July 15. A general strike at Alexandria, which the Wafd investigated as a sympathetic demonstration for the victims of the riots at Mansourah and Billeis, got out of hand. Youths broke shop windows and stoned the police, amid cheers of “Long live Nahae Pasha.”

Europeans took refuge in the Stock Exchange. The police flred on the mob from the roof of the Law Courts, inflicting heavy casualties, the dead being removed in carts.

With the arrival of 700 troops from Cairo the situation was got under control. The number of killed is 17, including several Europeans. There are at least 200 injured.

The population was ordiered indoors early in the evening. Most of the streets are in darkness as the street lamps in the city thoroughfares have been smash* €<l The Prime Minister, Sidky Pasha, and other Ministers arrived.and held a council meeting in the evening and suspended indefinitely the three chief Wafdist newspapers, which have been publishing articles against the Government,

ORIGIN OF THE DEMONSTRATION

UNARMED POLICE ON THE RUN.

Rec. 7.30 p.m. London, July 16. Th© Alexandria correspondent of the Times cays that th© Wafdist committee’s ordering of two hours’ silence in memory of “The martyrs for the Con.stitution,” as the head rioters were termed, caused the worst rioting since 1921. Organised attacks were carried out.' Cartloads of stones and bottles were thrown at the police, who, lacking steel helmets and arms, were kept on the run. Crowds overturned and set fire to three police lorries. The police were almost powerless until they climbed on the roof of the Law Courts and fired volleys into the mob.