HAPPENINGS IN CAIRO.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16152, 29 November 1924, Page 5

HAPPENINGS IN CAIRO.

ARRESTS A PRECAUTION. MEN NOT TO «E TRIED. PAST HISTORY OF SUSPECTS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, November 28. The Cairo correspondent of the Dally Chronicle says the arrests were precautionary. The prisoners will not be brought to trial, but will be Interned. This was deemed to" be the only practical way of averting- more murders. Directly after the Sirdar was shot, and before the British Note was delivered, the Director General of the European section of the Department of Publio Security, and Russell Pasha, Commandant of the Cairo polioe, asked to bo relieved to taking part in the search for the murderers, as they were convinced the Egyptian Government could best conduct the Investigation. The meaning of these white officials was that the organisers of the murder were prominent Zaghlulists, and members of the Zaghlul Ministry. They said they knevy them, and were In a position to obstruct the official searoh. It Is not surprising, therefore, that Zaghlol’s Minister for the Interior was arrested.

Of those arrested in Cairo, Abdul. Rahman was elected a deputy after his release by Zaghlul from prison. William Makram is a brilliant orator. Ho graduated in law at Oxford and conducted Zaghlulist propaganda In London against Adley Pasha. In 1921 he was deported from Egypt with Zaghul. Makrashl was dismissed from the Civil Service aftor a Government official strike in 1919, but since has been promoted repeatedly by Zaghlul. ‘lt is alleged that he used his position to obstruct British officials and investigations into tho police murders. It is reported that Barabat Pasha, zaghlul’s Minister of the Interior, has also been arrested, and that in consequence of arrests three members of the new Government have resigned.

SUDAN SITUATION QUIET. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) CAIRO, November 27. A Government communique states that when the Acting-Sirdar gave orders that the Egyptian officers and troops in the Sudan must leave, they refused and resisted. They informed the Aoting-Sirdar that they would not leave unless the Egyptian Government ordered them to do so. British troops surrounded them. The Khartoum Government then telegraphed asking that orders should be transmitted to Khartoum for the troops to leave Thereupon the Egyptian Mlntstry met, and decided that the Minister for War should send the required orders so as to prevent bloodshed. A message from Khartoum states that the general situation in the Sudan Is now quiet.