THE EGYPTAIN INCIDENT.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 13014, 29 June 1906, Page 5

THE EGYPTAIN INCIDENT.

SENTENCES ON THE NATIVES. United Pre*.* Avaociation—Per El ec trio Telegraph—Conrrijrht. CAIRO, June" 27. Four of Captain Bull's assailant* have been sentenced to be banged, four .to penal servitude for life, three to fifteen years, nine to shorter terms, and- five to fiftylashes. Thirty-one -were acquitted. WHAT THE EVIDENCE SHOWED. - Received 12.22 a.m.. Jnoe 29th. LONDON, Jpne 28. The evidence at Tantah showed a probability that the fire on the floor was

preconcerted, because its distance from the spot showed that it was impossible that it originated from the shooting or.the accidental discharge l of a rifle after it had been snatched-from the hands of an officer and wounded four natives. Major Pine Coffin and other officers, seeing the natives' excitement-, surrendered their rifles and withdrew. All were pursued, assaulted and robbed. The officers amd native witnesses identified the ringleaders. Captain Bull was assailed at a spot four miles in distance from the place where the original interference occurred. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Dillon inquired whether Sir E. Grey would obtain a respite for the Egyptians until 1 the evidence was examined.

Sir H. Campbell-Baamerman, in Sir E. Grey's absence, replied that Sir E. Grey's and Lord Cromer's discretion and humanity might be fully trusted. Sir E. Grey, in reply to a Liberal deputation, promised an inquiry into the circumstances, and remarked that the case was probably bad because the officers were assaulted after they had surrendered their weapons. The consensus of opinion in the .newspapers was that the incident was a recrudescence of fanaticism due to Turkish wire-pulling on th'e frontier and the action of their emissaries in Egypt. The Pan-Islamic agitators, rendered desperate, had been thrown on .their own resources ever since the Anglo-French company, and the consent of the Powers- entrusted Britain with the safety of Europeans:. The "Times," in ah article-onlthe severity of the sentences, "imperatively demands, under "the circumstances, that so long as we are* the responsible Government in Egypt, we must make our authority respected, and suppress outbreaks with unsparing vigour." The executions jure fixed for this afternoon.

The " Times'" Alexandria correspondent says that the evidence proved that the attack had been premeditated for months. The "Daily Mail"*states that the Court declared that the attack was premeditated.