On Monday after noon Lord Allenby further informed Zaghlul Pasha
that British forces had been ordered to occupy the Customs Offices at Alexandria. This action was carried out by landing parties from the ' Valiant and Benbow.' At this point Zaghlul Pasha apparently felt that he could not save enough frcm the wreckage of his policy to enable him to carry on and he accordingly resigned. Just before his resignation he paid the fine rf £500,000. In a farewell manifesto he adjured the cation to keep calm and to remember that it was to its own interest to refrain from " any act against the public peace." When Zaghlul Pasha explained the reasons for his resignation to the Chamber of Deputies he said that in his opinion the Egyptian Note made it clear to the whole world that Egypt was being attacked. Finally the Chamber appointed a committee to draw up protests to be addressed to the League of Nations and bo the Parliaments of all the Powers.
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