Cairo, July 8.
Police and military cordons stopped all traffic on roads leading to Mansourah, in the Delta, where a meeting organized by the Wafd (Nationalist) Executive was to have taken place to-day despite the fact that it had been prohibited by the Government, A motorcar conveying Nahas Pahas, the late Premier, with a Score of surdents clinging to managed to break through the first police cordon. They were stopped, however, by a cordon of troops arm with' rifles and fixed bayonets after a melee in which two of the boys were hurt, one so seriously that he had to be taken to hospital, where he died.
During this affair bricks and stones were thrown at the troops by persons in the balconies of the buildings along the river-front. An army officer was hit by one of these missiles. Matters became so serious that the troops were compelled to fire twelve rounds at their attackers, An attempt was made to hang a.
iceman from a' window with a Wire rope, but, happily for the constable, the wire broke.
Three men were killed and thirty-seven injured on the Government and thre rioters killed and injured.
July 10, Fifteen policemen were injured and 70 rioters were arrested at Taptah to-vlay when a crowd stoned the police station as a protest against the action of the Authorities at Mainsourah—Reuter,
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