The general tenour of the proposed Bill may be indicated by one or two of its Articles.
Articles IX states:
"The following will be liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding@one month or a fine varying from 200 piastres to 3,000 piastres: firstly, any official who makes use of his authority to dissolve or attempt to dissolve a private or public meeting, except in the two cases foreseen in Article V; and, secondly, whoever by force or threats prevents: or disperses a private or public meeting or attempts to commit one of these acts, as well as any official who renders himself guilty fof one of these infractions, apart from the two eases foreseen in Article V."
Article V stipulates that a delegate of the Administration or a Police officer "may only dissolve a meeting if a written demand to do so is made to him by the committee organizing the meeting, or. in eases of serious disorders." If onder is restored the meeting may be resumed."
Article VIII places the maximum penalty for promoters of meetings leading to disorder at one week's prisonment or a fine of 100 lastres.
It will thus be seen that agitators causing disorder run the risk of extremely light penalties in_comparison with those inflicted 01 police officers who attempt, in pursuance of their duty, to prevent such outbreaks.
Since agitators frequently make foreign communities the target of their demonstrations, and since the police authorities would be "obviously restricted in the petformance of their duties, firm mea: sores to prevent such a Bill becom-law will become necessary on the part of the British Government, which remains responsible for the safety of the lives and property of the foreign communities in Egypt.—British Wireless through Reuter.
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