VENGEANCE SOCIETY.
♦ CAIRO, July 28. The trial of members of the Vengeance Society has begun. One of the three founders has turned King’s evidence. He admitted that the object of the society was to foster the ex-Khedive’s popularity, hate of the Sultam and to propogate sedition. He declared that another member said that an Australian deserter. who served in the Dardanelles, offered for £5O sterling on account and a further £l5. to shoot General Allenby or Wabba Pasha, ex-Premier. Witness heard Abdul Rahman Fahmy, secretary of the Egyptian Nationalist delegation, declare that the Sultan and Ministers must die. He heard a plot arranged to bomb the present Premier, and informed a relative.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17934, 30 July 1920, Page 9
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112VENGEANCE SOCIETY. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17934, 30 July 1920, Page 9
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