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This document, virtually a petition, asked permission to place the Egyptian Army under an Egyptian Commander-in-Chief. Should this be done the office of Sirdar* would be taken from its present British incumbent, Major General Charlton Watson Spinks, or "Spinks Pasha" as Egyptians know him. That such a thing should even be thought of shocked the British Government so deeply that it despatched the battleships and sent a note declaring that the whole affair must be a "misunderstanding." Why should the independent Kingdom of Egypt want an Egyptian Commander-in-Chief, when Spinks Pasha is fulfilling that office, with...
...Cairo seven men were led onto a platform. One by one a trap door opened beneath their feet, and they went dangling into eternity. They were the men convicted of the murder of the British sirdar, Sir Lee Stack (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924). Six of the men, all youths, went bravely to their doom. The seventh an older man, able lawyer, brains of the conspiracy, struggled and wept. An eighth man, convicted, had his sentence commuted at the last minute because he had confessed promptly after his capture and had facilitated the capture of the others...
Following the recent crisis, caused by the assassination of the Sirdar, Sir Lee Stack (TIME, Dec. 1 et seq.), Parliament was prorogued for a month. It was hoped that during this period the King's Premier, Ziwar Pasha, appointed to effect a settlement with Britain, would be able to gather about him supporters enough to make his Cabinet secure in Parliament. The attitude of Parliament, however, did not change; ex-Premier Saad Zaghlul Pasha continued to enjoy the confidence of both Chambers and that meant an anti-British policy which could only embroil Egypt further with Britain...
...turbulent situation in Egypt arising out of the murder of Sirdar Sir Lee Stack (TIME, Dec. 1 et seq.) was sufficiently ameliorated to warrant the release of 23 men arrested after and in connection with the above outrage. Approximately 25 were still in prison pending inquiry and subsequent exoneration or trial...
...march to Gordon College. Near the Egyptian military hospital in the Khedivial Avenue they bumped into two platoons of a British Egyptian regiment; both came to a halt. The British officer went forward, exhorted the Sudanese to obey orders, but the Sudanese refused. At this moment the acting Sirdar, Colonel Huddleston, rode up and went forward in front of the British troops to urge sanity on the Sudanese. But the Sudanese merely declined to recognize the Sirdar. Orders were then given to round up the mutineers...