Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-10-30 | Page 4 | Lives Lost in Egyptian Riots

LIVES LOST IB EGYPTIAN ITS Nationalist Demonstrations Occur at Alexandria and Cairo. ALEXANDRIA, l;:ypt. Saturday, Oct. Two rioters were k 1 1 icfl a ikI u-n others injured, and twenty-seven policemen wrc hurt in a serious nationalist do in on strati stra-ti on yesterday. The trouble arose when the police a f tempted to suppress a peacc-ahle peacc-ahle demonstration, such us have recently been a weekly feature of poii tical activity activ-ity in Alexandria. Sticks, stones, bottles and police ha tuns were first used. The arrival of tin1, governor of Alexandria Alex-andria restored order for a time. Then two motor lorries with' troopa appeared on the scene, and eventually shots were fired at the crowd. Today there was some recurrence of the trouble at the harbor side, but it was of a comparatively minor character. CAIRO, Kcrypt, Saturdav, Oct. 25. Shouts of "We don't want the Milner commission," interrupted a band playing "God Save the Kiiur" at the public ear-dens ear-dens yesterday, g vg tne signal for a nat tonal is t demon strut ion. The trouble was quelled by the' artiiorl-tions. artiiorl-tions. who placed a number oi t ti, dents under arrest. It was announced In London some time ago that the government was considering" consider-ing" sending to Kg-ypt a special commission headed by Viscount Milncr, secretary for the colonies, in order to ascertain what changes were necessary in the constitution constitu-tion of the protectorate.