DEMONSTRATIONS IN EGYPT

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1930, Page 9

DEMONSTRATIONS IN EGYPT

ONLY TWO FOREIGNERS INJURED. “DISORDERS NOWHERE SERIOUS.” British Wireless. Rugby, July 23. Replying in a Parliamentary answer to-day and giving particulars of last Monday’s disorders in Egypt, the Foreign Secretary, Mr. A. Henderson, said that in Cairo 15 demonstrations took place, varying in size from 400 to 3000 people. The demonstrators threw stones and broke tram windows and street lamps. No other damage to European property had been reported. The only cases ot injury to foreigners were one European tram conductor and one Hungarian injured. The situation in Cairo was now well in hand and no British forces were employed, either there or in Port Said, and Suez, where disturbances had also occurred. The disorders, Mr. Henderson added, were nowhere serious and there was no participation in them by respectable elements of the population. The workers everywhere kept out of the demonstration and remained steadily at their employment. ’ ,