EGYPTIAN ELECTIONS.
AGITATORS OUT-MANOEUVRED.
PREMIER WINS FIRST ROUND.
CAIRO, Wednesday.
Sidky Dasha, the Premier, appears to have won the first round of a battle of tactics, to prevent the Wafdists and Liberals illegally using the town of Benisuef as a starting point for the election campaign. Nalias Easha, with his campaign cohorts, arrived at Benisuef and found the station picketed with troops and police. The demonstrators were not allowed to leave the platform, where there was no provision for food and drink. The demonstrators stood idle all day long, and began to feel cold at dusk.
They were still without comfort by 10.30 p.m., when a special train drew in and they were invited to embark for Cairo. Nahas asked what if they refused. The commander intimated that he would use force, and the disgrtmtled demonstrators entrained, and the farce ended very tamely.
(The political situation in Egypt.is a disturbed one. Nahas Pasha and Mahmoud Pasha are combining against Sidkv Pasha, leader of the existing emergency Administration, and are determined to throw him out. A serious aspect is the anti-British alliances of Nahas and Mahmoud).
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WDT19310409.2.50
Bibliographic details
Wairarapa Daily Times, 9 April 1931, Page 5
Word Count
185EGYPTIAN ELECTIONS. Wairarapa Daily Times, 9 April 1931, Page 5
Using This Item
National Media Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of National Media Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in