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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1948.
EGYPTIAN PREMIER ASSASSINATED
Marshal Yen In Nanking
Nanking. December 28.
Marshal Yen Shib-han ar. rived here unexpectedly trim Alternoon from besleged Tat yual, capital of Bhanel Pro. vince, in a special Chincte Air Force transport pinne,
The Marshall immediately called on President Chiang Kal-shek, presumably to ro
war altuation M rort on the his aren
The arrival of the oldtime warlord
catted
a wave speculation that He may be here to di cues with ነ ኑ ኖ Generalima the abandon ment or surrender of Taiyuan, it was also conjectured he might have brought
Com
and
muntat peate terass possibly might have received Communist emisnaries at Tali yuan. This with purely speculation and the nature of his mission has not yet been disclosed. United Press.
Soviet Planes Reported In
Nokrashy Pasha Shot By
Student Posing As Police
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THIRD POLITICAL KILLING
Cairo, December 28.
•
Prime Minister Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha was assassinat-
ed this morning.
They declared the assossin was a member of the Moslem Brotherhood As- sociation, a Nationalist group recently cutlawed by the Prime Minis-
Police said he was shot by a student disguised as a police officer.
ter.
The sloying occurred in the Ministry of Interior where the Prime Minister was on the way to his office. Witnesses said the assassin emptied his revolver at Nokrashy Pasha and that five bullets struck him. wont wild. Ho died five minutes later without uttering a word.
The killer was arrested im- mediately.
and
Other persons in the building at the the satel the assailant ap-
Pasha uroached Nokrushy shook hands with drawing the gun.
him before
-
Izt outlawing the Moslem Brotherhood, the Prime Minister
with respon
Chihli Straits charged the group
Shanghai, December 28,
A Chinese report from Tsing- no today said Soviet planes were constantly scouting over Tunglai Islands at the mouth of Chikli Straits, where the Chinese Navy is building up a base from which warships are Ughterunt the blockade in the Tangku battle.
The Shun Pae despatch claimed the Soviet sent more than 100 planes which circled and revan- noitred over the islands.
sibility for violence which catised several deaths. The order follow- ed a series of explosions in Cairo
business establishments.
Nokrashy Pasha had been Prime Minister most of the time since the end of World War II last year he went to the United Nailons session in New York to plead Egypt's case for evacuation of British troops from the Suez Canal zone.
Born in Caire in 1988, Nokrashy Posho studied at the Ecole Nor- male Superieure du Cairo and and later at Nottingham Univer-
The newspaper also alleged Bo-sily. viel gunboats seized Bshingboate
uver to the
67 Port Arthur and Danien waters School Posts
and handed them
Chinese Communists for ferrying supplies from Mnuchurla to
At the age of 21 he was appoint Yangkokow in Eastern Shuntung. The lands are lonte i North of
ed Resident Master of an Alexan- drin school. At 20. he became the 38th parallel. They have a
bendmaster of a school Cairo, population of 25,006 who make a Ilving a Bsting with the aid of art in 1928 joint directer of the UNGRA supplies. Mest of the in- accountancy section of the Minis- halillante are ovn,tems from the
Iry of Agriculture. Communist-overrun namland. -
Tr Nanking 150 military Appxcaman confirmed that So vet planes were sighted over
Cackle but swir Soviet air re Lennaleance of Chineze waters had been going on for a long time.
Escorting Junks
He entered politics in 1921 and took an active part in the Na
tonalist movement, where he was noticed by Sand Zaghoul Pasha, the Nationalist leader.
5000
New Premier
To Be Named
Cairo, December 28.
High political sources told the United Press that a new Premier would bt named These within a few hours, sources said the present time was too critical to let the post remain vacent long.
The. Egyptian Cabinet I holding an emergency cossion to discuss measures for the appointment of a new Pre. mier. A high political source told United Prasa the choice lay between Ahmed Khashaba Paths. at present Foreign Sinister, and Ibrahim Abdui Hadi Pasha,—United Press.
At various times, Nokrashy Pasha has held the posts of Com- munications, Education. Foreign Afairs, Finance and the Interior.
During his Premiership in 1945, he strongly campaigned for a re-
vision of the Anglo-Egyptian
treaty of 1930 and culled for the withdrawal of British troops from the country and the complete in- dependence of the Nile Valley.
Negotiations
Later that year he took his country's case to the Ualled Na- tions Security Council but with-
His Cabinet fell in February, Nokrashy Pasha is the third į 1948, hot becoming Premier again Egyptian Premier to be assan- in December he again took up sinated while in office. He first the treaty question. Negotiations succeeded to the Pramlarship in | with Britain broke down in February, 1945, when the Pre- January, 1947. mier, Ahmed Maher, sassinated in Parliament while Ho said he had reerived in-
about to declare War
on the formation that Soviet navad vos-"; Axis. suis had been esnorting Chinese Commurist junks carrying sup- Nokrashy Pasha resigned the plies and Heress Wie Gulf of Premiership on February 15, 1940 Chihli to Shantung These vessels, | after students' riots. He was suc- he auid, usually cor could their curded by Sidky Pasho, who re- inzignia to avoid Identification, signed in Nekrashy Fasha's favour.
The spokesman suid-ke was not | In December the same year. aware of the reportel arrival of two divisions of Sevu troops at Harbin and Mukdery but said #
is knowr that a con-iderable body
of Sovit troops had beer, left in Manchuria when the
Red
Army
|
cut success.
He sent Egyptian troops into Falestine when the British man date over the Holy Land ended combat what he called aggression by terrorist Zionist gangs..
U.S. Evacuation From Korea Under Way
evacuated in 1940 He shir these remaining troops duvarded their. uniforms and lived as civilians.
Comiaunist forces, meanwhile, have breached wide gape in the Nationalist defence line at Tongka and have entered U port in The turce, a usually reliačie source re- ported irday.
herc
The milliary spokesman was not available for eomment on the report.
This source said Tingku war
Tokyo, December 28. evacuation of at least some American forces from Korea has been under way for some time, it was learned when units of the Saventh Divi- sion were discovered in Japan.
eut in two-the loves itself and The Seventh has been occupy- the new harbour area Remnant | Ing the area near the 38th of the Government guzriron, ex- parallel since shortly after the timated at 30,000 to 40,000 men, surrender of Japan.
have low barricaded themselver in the Cniuto and Yungli factories and the railway station for a lust 'ditch delence.-United Press.
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