STRIKE RIOTS IN EGYPT.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, 17 July 1930, Page 9

STRIKE RIOTS IN EGYPT.

“Long Live Nahas Pasha!” POLICE FIRE ON MOBS. United Press Association—By Electric Tel egraph—Copyr 1 ght. CAIRO, July 15. The general strike at Alexandria, which was instigated as a sympathetic demonstration for the victims of the riots at Monsourah and Billeis, got out of hand. Youths broke shop windows and stoned the police, amid cheers of “Long Live Nahas Pasha!” Europeans took refuge in the Stock Exchange. The police fired on the mob from the roof of the Law Courts, inflicting heavy casualties, the dead being removed in carts. It is reported that British troops have been summoned from Cairo. SITUATION UNDER CONTROL. BRITISH TROOPS ARRIVE. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received July 16, 7.20 p.m.) ALEXANDRIA, July 15. With the arrival of seven hundred troops from Cairo, the situation is under control. The number of killed is between fourteen and seventeen, including several Europeans. There are at least two hundred injured. The population was ordered indoors ; early in the evening. Most of the | streets are in darkness, as the street lamps in the city thoroughfares have been smashed. WAFDIST PARTY ACTIVE. GOVERNMENT SUPPRESSES PRESS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyrisi't (Received July 16, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 16. The Alexandria correspondent of the “Times” says the Wafdist Committee’s ordering of two hours silence, in memory of the “martyrs for the constitution,” as the dead rioters (Bilebis and Mansura) are 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.

The crowds overturned and set fire to three police lorries. The police were almost powerless, until they climbed on to the roof of the Law Courts, and fired volleys into the mob.

The Prime Minister (Sidky Pasha), and other ministers arrived at Alexandria, and held a council meeting in the evening, and suspended indefinitely the three chief Wafdist newspapers, which have been publishing articles against the Government.

REVISED CASUALTY LIST. DENIAL OF REPORTS OF TROOPS OPERATING. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received July 17, 12.10 a.m.) CAIRO, July 16. The latest casualty list shows that seventeen were killed and four hundred wounded. It is denied that “troops were called out and that they fired.”