GREEN SHIRTS IN EGYPT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20899, 1 December 1937, Page 7

GREEN SHIRTS IN EGYPT

ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF PRIME MINISTER RELATED TO PLOTS IN PALESTINE British Official Wlreleat (Received November 30, 6.30 p.m.) RUGBY, November 29. The British Government has congratulated the Egyptian Government on the escape of the Prime Minister (Nahas Pasha) from assassination. INTERESTING DISCLOSURES RELATION TO ARAB TERRORISM United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright (Received November 30, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, November 30. The Cairo correspondent of “The Times” says: “AU the Green Shirt leaders were arrested at the party headquarters. Members on the premises were searched and documents confiscated, out the Green Shirts maintain that Khader was expelled from the party months ago, for irregular conduct, after which he went to Palestine, where he was suspected of being implicated in acts of terrorism. Khader now denies he has any accomplices, and states that he wished to kill Nahas Pasha because the AngloEgyptian Treaty rendered the greatest disservice to Egypt. He had previously prepared to murder Nahas Pasha, but was unable to approach neat enough. The Cairo correspondent of “The Daily Telegraph" says: “The latest information links the Arabs with the attempt to shoot Nahas Pasha. Khader is well acquainted with Arab affairs. His diary reveals several visi' to Palestine, and meetings with leading Arabs. The attempted assassination enabled Nahas Pasha to regain much of his lost ground."

POPULAR INDIGNATION MANY INJURED IN RIOTS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright (Received November 30, 6.30 p.m.) CAIRO, November 29. Twenty were admitted to hospital as the result of riots. The police, wearing steel helmets, were on patrol all night, and placed a cordon round the residence of the Leader of the Opposition. Large crowds, mostly students, demonstrated in the forenoon in favour of Nahas Pasha.