RIOTS IN EGYPTIAN CITIES

Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1930, Page 9

RIOTS IN EGYPTIAN CITIES

MANY DEAD AND WOUNDED

STREET ATTACKS ON POLICE GOVERNMENT CONF ID ENT By Telegraph-Press Awn.-Copyright. Rec. 10 p.m. Cairo, July 21. Street attacks on the police broke out seriously to-day, the rioters suffering at least 27 casualties. Several are dead. Th<i loss to the police and troops is at present unknown. The situation is under control.

Sulky Pasha, interviewed after the riots, declared that the Government was aware numerous plans had been laid to excite mobs to violence, and therefore it took all possible measures to protect the public and safeguard communications.

Only the lowest class mob participated in the demonstrations, which had no intelligible aim and no reference to the constitution, the meaning of which was lost on the mob. The organisers of tlie outbreaks were unable to impress the mass of peaceful citizens, especially the peasants. Sidky Pasha insists the Government is capable of ending the disorders with the ordinary means at its disposal. Twenty natives at Port Said were wounded when the Egyptian police wore compelled to fire on the mob in the. natives’ quarters. Sixteen police were > injured. It is reported that troops have been despatched to Suez, where mobs are out of hand. ANXIETY OF FOREIGN POWERS NO REiPRESENTATIONS TO BRITAIN British Wireless. Rugby, July 21. No official diplomatic representations had been made to the British Government regarding foreign nationals _ in Egypt, though certain representatives of foreign powers had made inquiries at the Foreign Office and had intimated their anxiety regarding the situation, said the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Arthur Henderson, in the House of Commons this afternoon. Referring to last week’s riot in Alexandria, Air. Henderson said the.casualties were 19 killed, including one Italian. Ten police and 53 civilians were still in hospital, while 39 police and 65 civilians were out-patients. Four Egyptian army officers and four men were hurt, and one British Cypriot was slightly injured. No British troops were involvedMn the disturbances.

Asked whether ho was still prepared to negotiate with the Egyptian Government on the basis of the draft treaty, the Foreign Secretary said the attitude of the Government remained as defined in his reply to a similar question on Juno 30, but in view of the the recent happenings in Egypt the British Government must be guided by the future course of events.