The British Note went on to make certain demands. There
must be a full apology for the crime ; an inquiry into the authorship of the crime with the condign punish- ment of the assassins ; the suppression of all popular public demonstrations ; the payment of a fine of £500,000 ; the withdrawal from the Sudan within twenty-four hours 'of all Egyptian officers and all purely Egyptian units ; the enlargement of the area to be irrigated at Gezira, and the withdrawal of all opposition to British action on behalf of foreign interests in Egypt. The Note ended with the announcement that if these demands were not immediately complied with the British Government would take " appropriate action." The determined nature of British movements had not been expected by the Egyptian populace, and the cavalcade, symbolically impressive in size—it was a full regiment of Lancers— which escorted the High Commissioner on his visit to Zaghlul Pasha created great excitement. The trumpeters sounded a Royal Salute at the Council buildings, and this brought the deputies hurrying out on to the balcony of the Parliament House. The Times correspondent says that they seemed to be perturbed at the spectacle of the Lancers blocking the entrance to the Parliament House.
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