THE EGYPTIAN INCIDENT.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 13016, 2 July 1906, Page 5

THE EGYPTIAN INCIDENT.

.COMPOSITION OF THE COURT. ,

—t —r SCENES AT THE«EXECUTION

justice of the;sentences. ,

United Piew- Association—Per, Electrio „ T^egrapb—Copyright.' . LONDON, June 29. Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; stated that the Court was composed of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Mr Justice Bond, vice-president of the Native Court of Appeal, and practically Lord Chief Justice; Fatting Bey, president of the Cairo Native Court; Mr Hayter, acting judicial adviser; and Colonel'Ludlow, officiating as judge advocate. Neither the Egyptian' Government nor Lord Cromer were, legally entitled to j interfere. " I am," said Sir Edward Grey, , "confident that the character of the tribunal is the greatest safeguard possible against a miscarriage of justice. —(Cheers.) I am informed that two, not four, of the 1 accused were sentenced to penal servitude.' He intended to discuss with Lord Cromer a modification of the flogging law. A. Renter telegram from Cairo states that' four of the prisoners were hanged, and six flogged in a roped-in space where the assaults were committed. The gallows and whipping post were in the centre. A man was first hanged and left hangmg while two men were whipped. Then another man was hanged, and two more were whipped. The remaining two were hanged and other culprits flogged: The'"Daily.Telegraph's" Cairo correspondent states that hundreds of natives erathered at the scene. Women waded as the drop felL The flogging caused horrible cries, evoking groans jfjom the native onlookers. The scene Was a painful one The condemned men were quiet. The Egyptian newspapers admit the justice of the sentence/