Word: zaghlul
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Students. Shortly after having accepted the Premiership from his King, Ahmed Ziwar Pasha motored to the home of ex-Premier Saad Zaghlul Pasha, who cordially received him. During the Premier's visit, students? in the street called "Yehia Saad Zaghlul!" (Long live Saad Zaghlul.) The ex-Premier sent one of his colleagues to tell them to stop and later he warned them that if they wished him to remain their leader they must return to their classes, resume their occupations, refrain from agitating. The students, known as "Zaghlul Pasha's Army," departed...
Arrests. Abdur Rahman Fahmy Bey, Mahmud Nekrashy Effendi, Makrum Obeid Effendi and Barakat Pasha, all prominent members of Zaghlul's party organization and still Deputies of Parliament, were arrested in their homes by British soldiers for plotting against the British. The following day 35 more arrests were effected. A great cry went up protesting that the four Deputies enjoyed parliamentary immunity from arrest and that the British had acted illegally...
...British authorities in Cairo conferred with Premier Ziwar over the British demands as contained in the ultimatum delivered by Lord Allenby. In the end the Egyptian Premier agreed to accept all the British demands. Whereupon the British evacuated the Alexandria Customs House which they had seized when Premier Zaghlul refused to accept in toto the British ultimatum. Lord Allenby, British High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, reported the situation "in good order," conditions "easier and satisfactory...
...Dead March, their rifles reversed, their legs doing a slow, rhythmic, painful imitation of the goosestep. The sombre field-grey gun-carriage, bedecked with floral tributes, came next, bearing its coffin shrouded in a Union Jack. Behind came the mourners?Lady Stack, Lord Allenby, Lady Allenby, Captain Campbell, Premier Zaghlul, onetime Premier Herbert H. Asquith (on a visit to Egypt), all the members of the Egyptian Cabinet, all the diplomatic representatives. Overhead a squadron of airplanes mournfully circled. At several points, guns belched forth a major-general's salute...
Britain's Ultimatum. Inside Parliament, Premier Zaghlul Pasha, aged, worn, anxious, received the British High Commission which then read a 24-hour British ultimatum. The deep voice of Allenby boomed forth...