TROUBLE IN EGYPT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 114, 16 May 1931, Page 7

TROUBLE IN EGYPT

POLICE FIRE ON STRIKERS MANY PEOPLE INJURED CAIRO, Alay 14. One person was killed and 29 were injured in riots in the industrial railway centre. Troops surrounded the railway workshop, in which 5000 strikers defended themselves by means of lire hoses, pieces of coal and iron. Fresh, trouble broke out at mid-day when males burnt trams and buses and barricaded the streets. The police were obliged to fire, killing a woman. MANY CASUALTIES CLASHES WITH POLICE CAIRO, Alay 14. Eighteen people were killed and 187 injured during the election riots. Two British engineers were wounded. Egyptian ijifantry dispersed mobs of railwaymen and students in tho neighbourhood of the railway sheds at Balnk, but the crowds controlled working class quarters at Bulak Shuba for four hours, marching and stoning trains and attacking the police. Provincial communications are interrupted. FIREARMS V. BOLTS AND BARS (Times Cable) Received Alay 15, 8.50 p.m. CAIRO, May 14. The casualties among the natives are mostly due to rifle and shotgun fire. Those among the police are due to missiles, owing to the civilians .being for bidden to carry arms. The broken railway lines were barricaded and labourers threw red hot bolts, and bars at the heads of tho police, who brought up a flying squad of steel helmets and British constables, who drove off the labourers.