29 MAY 1926, Page 3

Meanwhile, the trial of those Zaghlulists who were accused of

complicity in several political murders has had an astonishing result. On Tuesday the Court, though sentencing Mohamed Fahmy Effendi Aly to death, acquitted all the other prisoners ' and ordered their release. The Cairo correspondent of the Times says that Ahmed Pasha Maher and, Mahmud Effendi Nekrashi, who had been defended in Court by Wafdist ex-Ministers, at once went to Zaghlul's house. The Times correspondent says that this wholesale acquittal has caused widespread surprise in view of the evidence offered. " Foreign circles," he adds, " are greatly shocked by it." The President of the Court was British but under Egyptian law there need not be unanimity among the judges.

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