Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-04
EGYPT BOWS To ALL
BR|TA|N'S DEMANDS;
MINISTERS RESIGN

CAIRO, Egypt, Dec. 1.-(By the
! Associated Press. )-Althoug not
yet officially announced it is under
stood autnoritatively that the Egyp-
| the British demands, made at the
time of the assassination of Major
General Sir Lee Stack.
It's first immediate consequence
will be the evacuation by the British
of the Alexandria customs house.
The ministers of education and
public works have resigned and it is
expected the minister of commune
cations will follow suit
SITUATION IN EGYPT AND
SUDAN CONTINUES QUIET
LONDON, Dec 1.-By the Asso-
ciated Press.)-Egypt has agreed to
the outstanding terms previously I'M
accepted, which were laid down after
the assassination of the sirdar, Sir
Lee Stack. Messages to this eff
feet, it is learned from authoritative
sources, have been received from
Lord Allenby, British high commits
sioner in Egypt.
The demands to which the Egyp-
tan government at first refused to
accept were that all Egyptian Off
GERS and purely Egyptian units of
| the Egyptian army be withdrawn
from the Sudan; that an increase in
irrigation be permitted in the Sudan
and that opposition cease to British
wishes concerning protection of for
eign interests in Egypt. After the
Egyptian refusal, the British au-
thorities themselves ordered the
Egyptian troops to evacuate the
Sudan and some of them have left.
The situation both in Egypt and
the Sudan continues quiet, according
to the latest reports from newspaper
correspondents, whose dispatches
imply that further trouble, in the
Sudan, at any rate, is improbable.
Propagandists Blamed
The mutiny of small body OF
troops in the Eleventh Sudanese
battalion is generally ascribed di
rectly to the influence brought tc
bear on the men by their officers
acting in behalf of Egyptian propa
Sandists
The full extent of the casualties
among the mutineers, suffered dur
Ing their fighting with the British,
; apparently will not be established
until the ruins of the building in
which they barricaded themselves
are cleared away, but some reports
: Indicate that only about a score lie
under the debris.
; a Cairo dispatch on Saturday SAID
one officer and fourteen men of the
mutineers were believed to have
been killed, the remainder surren-
derlng, with the exception of a
small number who were being
rounded up by the police An Off,
cal communique showed that two
British officers, one British physi-
clan and two Syrian physicians were
Killed and nine men Of the ranks
wounded.
British to Withdraw Tr00ps
The Cairo correspondent of the
Daily Express says an agreement
has been reached by which the Brit
lsh troops will be withdrawn from
the Alexandria customs house
which they recently occupied This.
ne ADDS, would seem to Indicate con.
fldence in the willingness and ability
OF the new premier, Ziwar Pasha
to hold down the extremists and full.
fill the British terms.
Mustaf Nahas, former minister.
and a number Of other lawyers have
addressed letter to the public pros
ecutor protesting against the arrest
of members of the chamber Of denu
ties in connection with alleged plots
against the British and demanding
their release.
A message received today says the
Cairo schools in which the students
have been on strike. are reopenlng
and that the situation is quiet in
Cairo and Alexandria,
There is no prospect of further dis
( orders this MESA ge asserts