Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1935, Page 16

TROUBLEINEGHT DUEFOREACLIND “Probability Follows Hoare’s -~ Indications Settlement Not Possible Yet. .- By the Associated Press. . * LONDON.—The probability of trou- .-ble in Egypt before the Italo-Ethioplan * hostilities are liquidated has followed “ @ir Samuel Hoare's recent clear indi- cations here of no immediate prospects * of Great Britain consenting to a full *_settlement of Anglo-Egyptian relations. ¥ The vigorous uproar in Cairo that followed this action by the foreign secretary suggested that Egyptian na- tionals, desirous of turning the present . situation to their advantage in order to obtain clear independence, are likely Egyp THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON; D. C., DECEMBER 8, 1935—PART OXNE. '’ t So Busy With Prosperity It Can’t Find Time to Revolt British, Soldiers and Sailors Start Piasters Flowing Again, and Only Few Students Fan Rebellion. BY EDWARD J. NEIL. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, November 21 (by mail) (#).—Comedy and pathos in the shade of the pyramids, that's the story today of Egypt, a na- tion enjoying prosperity so well that | it just can’t seem to work up to the old enthusiasm for demonstrations of force against the domination of the men who started the piasters flowing again, the soldiers and sailors of Great Britain, Recent riots in the streets of Cairo, minor clashes in Alexandria, were but faint pink reflections of the disturb- ances that splashed the last 15 years five students died of wounds in Cairo, and a couple hundred were hurt. Two British policemen were injured, oue seriously. .And the reason, some Egyptians say, is that Great Britain's navy, massed here in the emergency of Italy’s Ethiopian conquest threatening the headwaters of the Nile, has brought too much money with it. Narrow Streets Crowded. The hotels, the shops, theaters, are crowded with officers and sailors, sol- diers, too, spending freely. Two aban- doned hotels had to be reopened. 8o many ships are in the harbor, the wharves, that potential rioters are too busy working to think of fighting. ‘When they finish work they're too tired. Arab drivers of the spavined horses and the ancient hacks that infest the narrow, winding streets whirl from customer to customer, making bhay while the sun shines on the mosques and minarets, Peddlers in the streets scarcely have time to spread their prayer mats five times a day, kneel in the direction of Mecca, and bow low in their prayers. Even beg- gars will scarcely accept now the half plaster (2%, cents) that once upon :l time meant a happy and prosperous ay. Too Busy to Revolt. All these were lusty trouble-makers when the occasion offered, but today they're so busy making money they just haven't the time. Never, from the internal standpoint of the Egyp- tian, was the time ever more ripe, any more than it is unpropitious, be- cause Britain never before in peace times gathered so many warships and men in this part of the Mediterranean. For the first time in Egypt’s history all parties are united in a common headed by the Wafd party, which claims the allegiance of 90 per cent of Egyptians. The Wafd recently withdrew its support of Premier Tew- fik Nassim Pasha because Britain has failed to restore the constitutions of either 1923 or 1931. That made all partie. unanimous against him, leav- ing him only the support of Britain and the guns. Opportunity knocked and found only the extremely politically minded stu- dents of Cairo’s schools and univer- sities listening, boys mostly ranging from 14 up to 20 years. They did the best they could, but with the backbone of the attack busy gathering plasters elsewhere, looking on apa- thetically from the sidelines, their cause never really had a chance. Veterans Resist Boys. The picture of these youngsters, who argue politics from the time they can talk, trying to fight with sticks ani stones the thoroughly drilled, British-officered Egyptian police, was both ludicrous and tragic. Laughing, some 20 of these police, many of them former tommies, often chased a crowd of a couple hundred “rioters” through the streets, spanking around grinning one day while a 14-year-old girl harrangued a crowd on & corner. But another day, in the middle of November, a crowd of almost 2,000 students formed in Giza and started across the Abbas Bridge into Cairo, sprawly, boisterous city of the Pyra- mids and desert men. On the other side ol the bridge waited Bimbashi Lees, British officer, and 80 police. This time the students didn’t stop. ‘They had no guns, for it'’s impos- sible for a civilian to get a pistol in Egypt, but they carried iron bars, stones, waved clubs and screamed, “Down with Hoare,” Sir Samuel Hoare, British foreign minister, who saild back in England that Egypt wasn't ready now for another consti- tution. Lees ordered them to stop. They attacked him, battered him to the ground. 2,000 Flee One Pistol. He emptied his service pistol. One boy died instantly, three more have died since. None was over 20. The crowd of 2,000 broke and ran in the face of one man, firing. Half an hour later, as reporters arrived In the brick-littered square, calmly having his tea in squad car. It was time, ‘There s further tragic touch in the of the students, many of them from primary and secondary schoole, to bury dead. They gathered menacingly around the hos- pital, Casr El Aini, after the second boy died, demanding fitting burial, accompanied by demon- stration. The police refused, and there was a slow rallying of forces on both sides. Mennwhile, the police took the boy’s body out the back way and buried it. Corpse Walked Out. The students out-maneuvered the palice, however, when ‘All AM, 19- year-old student, died of wounds, but their feat was more the macabre act of desperate schoolboys than of dan- gerous rioters. They secretly entered the hospital, dressed AM’s body and walked him out between two of them right past the police. They wouldn’t tell the police where the body was hidden until the officers agreed that they would have a funeral procession, led by the Wafd leader, Nahas Pasha. the back sea 4 o'clock, tea was orts the body was produced immediately, There was no more trouble. Less tragic was the “incident” caused by an Egyptian boy who was caught busily polishing his bicycle with & Union Jack. Having found the flag in the street, and not know- ing what it was, he had gone straight to work. —_— Air Raid Deaths. 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"The British government has done its 2 mtmost to quiet the Egyptians, keeping gheir post-war unrest under wraps * mntil a more suitable time for ad- Justment | But the Wafdists, led by Nahas Pasha, have become more aggressive * “and appear unlikely to be appeased by | : "Hoare'’s long-awaited enunciation of British policy, backed by his asser- tions Anglo-Egyptian fortunes are linked by history and geography. Hoare's reference to the constitu- » tions of 1923 and 1930 as, respectively, *unworkable” and “universally un- popular” was a bitter disappointment + to the Wafd because reintroduction of the 1923 constitution had been chosen by them for first place among their political aims. Nahas’ followers now are confronted with the alternative of readjusting | their party platform, or forcing the fssue to a showdown. The latter pre- | sents many difficuities, however, be- | cause many Egyptians feel need for British protection, and the bulk of Egyptians, Wafd or other, are no more | certain of which way Mussolini may eventually turn than are the British. Ask for our “Letter of Credit” and You Can Have Three Months to Pay for Gifts! Santa and Jee-bo-the-Clown Will be in Toyland Every Day ‘til Christmas — 4th Floor. Duce Holds Knives on Egypt. | At present Mussolini holds two | knives at the side of Egypt, in the | form of great troop concentrations | on her western and southern borders. | + There have been no assurances from the Italians that they might not over- . night convert their Ethiopian cam- % ‘paign into an attempt to seize the immensely greater and richer regions .~ of Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Su- ; dan. Mussolini now has 60,000 to 100,000 “land troops concentrated in Liby bulwarked with hundreds of airplan . and many tanks, trucks and other conveyances. 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