Evening star., 1945-11-03
NewCairo Riots
Against Jews
Are Suppressed
Hundreds Wounded
In Egyptian Cities by
Yesterdays Violence
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CAIRO, Nov. 3.-Anti- Zionist
riots broke out in Cairo again
today but we're swiftly sup
pressed by police.
Heavy patrols remained on duty
throughout the city to prevent fur
ther renewal of the bloody violence
which yesterday cost six lives in
Alexandria and left hundreds
wounded in Cairo, Alexandria, Port
Said and other Egyptian cities.
Maj. Gen. T. w. Fitzpatrick, acting
commandant of Cairo police, per-
sonally directed his men as they
broke up crowds which were stoning
business establishments in the city's
main business district today.
Windows of most shops along Soli-
man Pasha street were smashed and
merchants were forced to shutter
their stores before the short-lived
outbreak was quelled.
Gan Exchange Telegraph dis
patch to London from Cairo said
an attempt was made to assas-
sinate the Lebanese President,
Beshara al-Khoury, near Bey-
routh yesterday. The President
was driving with his wife when
shot was fired from an ap-
preaching car, the dispatch said,
but neither was injured. The
other car sped away
"Riff-Raff" Blamed.
The new flareup came after
Prime Minister Nokrashi Pasha had
blamed the Balfour declaration an
niversary fighting yesterday on riff
raft" and predicted there would be
no recurrence of mob violence.
The rioters stoned the Metro
Cinema on Soliman Pasha street,
one of the main thoroughfares. The
theater is owned by Metro Goldwyn-
Mayer.
Then they swept on to other main
squares. Police toured the city in
army trucks in an effort to forestall
further fighting.
Crowds continued to mill through
Cairo's Malika Farida Square, CEN
ter of the capitals heaviest battles
yesterday. Jewish shops in that sec
ton made no effort to reopen. Heavy
police patrols protected them from
looting.
Shouts of down with Zionism"
were heard as college students DEM
onstrated within their school
grounds.
All Glass Broken Out.
American troops remained re-
stricted to their barracks. Before
the new riots broke out, the British
had expressed hope that restrictions
on their forces could be lifted today
In Alexandria's shopping center
not one pane of glass remained in
tact. communications were at a
standstill, cafes closed and theaters
not operating.
Premier Nokrashi PaSha said
Cairo casualties totaled 800, includ-
ing 80 police, while 200 were injured
in Alexandria. He reported $40 ar
rests in Cairo, including $50 for
lootlng.
The Premier, who drove to the
scene of one of yesterdays riots, said
he personally arrested several loot
ers when the mob raided large
department store.
Il seized them by the scruff of
the neck and placed them under
arrest" the Premier said.
Streetcars Overturned.
The interior of one Cairo syna-
gogue was smashed. Rioters over
turned streetcars and attacked Jew
ish homes as well as places of
business.
Several responsible Arab sources
publicly deplored yesterdays out
breaks. Abul Eyoun. Grand Ulema
of Alexandria Ca religious teacher)
said the rioting hurt the Arab cause
because it was directed against "our
Jewish and European friends"
Salem Arb Pasha, leader OF the
young Moslem organization, con-
Cured in that opinion.
However, the influential weekly
newspaper Akbar ell Youm claimed
it had learned that Cairo Zionist
leaders had hired "mobsters" to
stone Jewish shops in order to dis
credit the strike which had been
called in protest against the Balfour
note promising ablishment OF
Jeu,ish homeland in Palestine