London, Aug. 12.
Reuter's Agency British battalion Egypt to reinforce the British troops in the Sudan as a con veauence of three outbreaks follo. ing pro-Egyptinn demonstrations.
The cadets of the milliary school at Khartum staged a demonstrate fon, August 9, but were disarmed company of British troops. The Egyptian Railway Battalion 3 Atbara on August 10 got out of hand and did damage to the British troops. A squadron of Arab mounted rifles were sent to Atbar ist 11 and these surround:
Rettalion at the may-
Ket place and compelled them to return to barracks. They broke of again and drove back the infant cordon. with their rifle butts, ard threw bricks and @ther missiles at the troops. The infantry opened fire, inflicting 19 casualties." On August 10 at Port Sudan 20 to 30 men of the Egyptian Railway Battalion broke from their barracks armed-with clubs, and,. led by a. suspended official, paraded the'
They finally returned The towns-people remained calm.
Later.
The disturbances in the Sadan sve attributed by the London newspapers to Egyptian Nationalist propaganda on the eve of the impending. negotiations between Zaghlul Pasha, who is at present taking the waters at Vichy, and Mr. Ramsay Macdonald on the subject of the Sudan:
Tt may be recalled that Zaghtul Pasha, speaking in the Chamber' of Deputies in Cairo on June 28. cedared that the Egyptian nati would never abandon its rights the Sudan because it was impossibl> for Exypt to wi the raced oF ings the "Best.
The pros teas brutally conquered by, Mehemet and "the evseliy with hich it seas bled by "its" Beyptian Talers during the next 60" years. was the main cause of the successful re which was headed by the Mahdi a un Knalifas. When' Lard "Kitchener feconauerred the, ree nineties. An Anglo-Eeyptian com. lovtininn wene set uh, but. from the first, Britain exercised' the controlling voice, and the whole of the. wonder Tal Work of reconstruction which has Use Sudan a prosperity, never before has been due to British The O1
Khartum, Aug. 12, The trouble at Atbara began by a namber of railway troops refusing to obey their Egyptian officers, A mounted infantry detachment of Egyptian Army as well British troops arrived and restored order. Subsequently the yailwa troops broke out again and attacked the mounted infantry, who eventually opened fire, Two mutineer were killed, and 16 wounded, two of whom died Inter.—Reuter, Alexandria, A communique has beer sued stating that no British troops were present when the Exyptian Railway Battalion was fired on a: Athara Apparently the Sudan Arab Mount-A Rifles fred without orders under great provocation-—Reuter Everything Now Quiet: High Commissioner Conferrins, with Premier London, Aug. 13.
Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby, the High Commissioner for and Major-General Sir Lee Stack the Gover lar of the Exyptian Army.
Thad a long eonferencs ie Office on the subject of the
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