31 DECEMBER 1921, Page 2

Lord Allenby, on Thursday, December 22nd, took strong measures against

the extreme Nationalists who have been promoting unrest in Egypt. Zaghlul Pasha and his eight leading supporters were ordered to cease their agitation and to retire to their country houses. As they refused to do so, they were arrested and Zaghlul was sent to Suez. The Nationalists began rioting on Friday, December 23rd, in Cairo. Martial law was declared, and in conflicts with the troops and police fifteen natives were killed and fifty wounded. Earlier in the week two British soldiers had been murdered in the streets. An Austrian, calling himself Johann Orth and claiming to be the Archduke Jahn who disappeared in 1890, was stabbed to death by rioters. The native civil servants declared a strike, but had returned to their work and their pay by Tuesday. Dis- turbances occurred at Alexandria, Port Said and Suez and in the Delta, but were quickly repressed. Armed steamers manned by British sailors were sent to patrol the Nile.