The Archive · 1938

Cairo Shooting Incident Takes Odd Turn

Revolver Believed to Have Gone Off by Accident Cairo, Sept. 6.

Further investigation regarding the shooting incident when King Farouk, returning from swimming championships in Alexandria on Sunday, has thrown no more light on the situation.

The papers devote a great deal of space to the affair and express the opinion that the revolver found at the foot of the arrested student Asfar, fell during a quarrel between two spectators and went off on its Own accord. It is still not known to whom the revolver belongs and Asfar swears that it was not in his Yugoslavia Celebrates King's Birthday Belgrade, Sept. 6.

All Yugoslavia celebrated the fifteenth birthday of Peter IL today when detachments of the Yugoslavian Army paraded before their young King in whose honour torch-light processions took place in all towns and villages throughout the country yesterday evening—Trang-Ocean.

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