The Washington times., 1935-12-09
POLICE FORCED
T0F|RE UPON
RIOTERS
TranPIed in
Rush; Down With
England the Cry
BY FLOYD GIBBONS
(CopyriEht, 1885, by International
News ServicsD

news SerVlcSl
CAIRO, Dec. 9.-Four hundred
Egyptian girl students in uniform
took possession of five street cars
at 1900 p. m. today, crowding off
the passengers a n d parading
through the center of Cairo past
European hotels crying Down
:. With England" and Long Live
the Revolution!"
The girl demonstrators were
r.eheered by groups of men students
who jeered at armed police follow
ing in motor trucks with the top
and sides screened with chicken
wire to protect the occupants from
stones and rocks and all manner
OF missiles.
= The students stopped the cars
and the police, fearing another at
: tempt to set them afire as on
Saturday and Sunday, charged the
:. crowds with clubs. The students,
men and women, and hooliganS
replied with a downpour of rocks,
stones, and pieces of iron. More
than 95 were arrested during the
weekend.
The police were forced to fire
-Shotguns into the crowds, which
gave way to panic as the air was
rent with piercing shrieks Of the
wounded and limping students.
The streets were dotted with others
fallen either by bird shot or club
blows, and by fainting girls, who
were trampled in the mad rush.
: Other students were carrying
their wounded with them. One
youth was reported shot in the
breast with a pistol ball. Windows
at the scene of the riot were
broken and other property was de-
Stroyed, while shopkeepers closed
their doors and windows, fearing
>looting.
Scenes of bedlam followed with
,ambulances and troop trucks
sounding screeching sirens, while
donkey carts loaded with black
veiled women and kids and 3
sugar cane caravan o. believing
camels holted through the panic
stricken crowd.
Students Refuse Aid
The students, adopting new
methods, are refusing ambulance
and hospital services from the
police, and are being carried from
the scene of rioting by comrades
and hidden in private homes to
avoid subsequent arrest and i'm.
prisonment.
Outbreaks of violence on Sat
.urday and Sunday, after two
weeks of comparative calm,
reached the most vicious stage
yet, although the police still re-
tanned first-degree methods, using
only clubs and birdShot.
But the vicious resistance by
the students, who in many in.
stances stoned and dubbed the
police to inconsistencies, caused
the authorities to prepare to ap-
ply Sterner methods, including
machine guns, real lead, and
<'plenty of it," while the dailies
2editorially beseech the police to
use tear gas to make the stud
entS weep instead OF their
parents"
UndercOver Action
Bested by police in mass attacks,
the ST.: ::lentS, in secret meetings,
decided on changing plans OF
operation by calling for under
cover action by small flying
squads.
The willy Russell Pasha, English
police chief, personally took part
in Sundays fighting near the
swanky English Turf Club, and is
well informed Of the new plans,
through a widespread system OF
undercover Egyptians in English
nay, who keep the authorities con-
stantly informed of most of the
students plans before they are
put into operation.
The students claim to have a
special delegation of Egyptians en-
route to Geneva to make an anti
English demonstration there at
ing to discuss sanctions against
the next League OF NdI1O1lS 1ueeG-
italy.
Plan London Rally
The students claim that funds
for this expensive gesture abroad
have been provided by rich
Egyptian sympathizers and some
privately interested Italians, who
are bitter against British mobiliza-
ton of so nations OF the world
against Italy in the Ethiopian
conflict.
The students even propose stag
ing a demonstration in London
during the early days of the naval
conference, which opens today.
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