Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-04-11 | Page 11 | Nationalist Leaders Are Released by General Allenby

Nationalist Leaders Are Released by General Allenby CAIRO, Eypt. April 7t (Monday, via Montreal.) A proclamation issued today by General Allenby. commander-in-chief of the forces In E&gypt, ordered the release of the four nationalist na-tionalist leaders who were arrested and deported several weeks ago. The leaders will be permitted to laud in Egypt. It was explained by the British government in the house of commons in March that four of the Egyptian nationalist leaders who had played a prominent part in the agitation antagonistic an-tagonistic to the Egyptian gov, i n ment and endeavored to prevent the formation of a new ministry tor Egypt by Intimidating the sultan and other political leaders has been deponed de-poned to Malta 01) the appeal of th sultan for protection from furlher insults in-sults and Intimidation. Rioting and other disturbances in Egypt followed the execution of this order and General Gen-eral Allenby was seni to Egypt by the government to deal drastically with the situation. Recent reports have indicated that Egyptian conditions condi-tions were improving.