Evening star., 1951-10-11
Police Maintain Order
As Anti-Briiish Thronu
Marches in Cairo
sy III. Associated Press

CAIRO, Egypt. Oct. 11.-Shout-
ing Egyptians. demanding the
custer of British troops from
Egypt. demonstrated against Brit
ain today for the second successive
day. but this time there was no
violence.
Heavy police escorts kept order
as thousands paraded through
Mustafa Kamel Square, then
moved on to the larger Ibrahim
Pasha Square to hear speakers
shout:
Down with Britain. We want
the British to get out of our
country"
Leading the crowd. Sudanese
students at two Cairo universities
cried, Down with foreign domi-
nation-we want one King, one
crown, one Nile"
After streaming past the palace
and cheering King Farouk, the
crowds dispersed without incident.
Anti-foreign mobs yesterday
smashed British and French busi-
ness offices. hurled bottles looted
from American soft-drink distrib-
utors' trucks, and set fires.
Back British Custer.
The demonstrations are the
product of violent public support
for the plan of Prime Minister
Mustapha Nahas el Pasha to oust
British troops from the Suez
Canal zone and take full control
|of the jointly ruled Anglo -Egyp-
tian Sudan.
Shopkeepers hastily lowered
steel shutters as the crowds
gathered today.
The huge crowd streamed to-
ward Mustafa Kamel Square to
hear speeches delivered from near
the statue of Mustafa Kamel, an
CByPlldu nero.
Kamel led the Nationalist Party
until his death in 1908. and spear
headed fight for Egyptian in
dependence from the British who
had obtained protectorate over
the country.
Meanwhile. the youth committee
of Nahas Pasha's ruling Wafdist
Party appealed for calm and
condemned yesterdays rioting
against foreign business as a
rash action"
But the Wafdist youths strongly
supported the Prime Minister'S
move to break the 1886 Anglo
Egyptian alliance and the 1899
agreement establishing joint rule
over the cotton-growing Sudan
which abuts Egypt on the south.
United Behind Pasha.
All classes and all parties con-
tinued to back the strong Nation
alist stand taken by Nahas Pasha.
A cheering meeting of univer-
sity students passed a resolution
saying they are ready to be
soldiers at the command of the
government in its struggle against
Imperialism"
Cairo newspapers said the gov
ernment is studying the possibility
OF negotiating non-aggression
pacts with Russia, the , United
States and France-big powers
which, unlike Britain. have no
troops in Egypt.
The 1896 pact gives Britain the
right to keep 10000 troops and
400-plane air force on Egyptian
soil to guard the Suez Canal.
Concerned about the state of
Middle Eastern defenses, the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-
ton is planning a multi-nation
Middle East Defense Command
TO defend the area, including the
Suez Canal. Nahas Pasha's
abrupt action has thrown this
proposal in jeopardy.
Study New Alliances.
Local papers said Foreign Min
lister Mohamed Salah ell Din
Pasha mentioned the possibility of
new alliances when he appeared
before a Chamber of Deputies
committee studying bills to carry
out Nahas Pasha's denunciation
Of the pacts with Britain.
The newspaper Al Misri said a
royal decree is expected soon to
oust the British Governor General
of the Sudan. Under the 1893
agreement the Egyptians name
the governor general. but Britain
must assent to the Egyptian
choice. The governor generals
job has been held by a Briton
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