While saluting a Cairo crowd from the train which was to take him to Alexandria for a reception of King Fuad, Egyptian Premier Saad Zaghlul Pasha was shot by a young student from a distance of three yards.
It was at first thought that the Premier had been fatally wounded, but subsequent investigation showed that the bullet had merely gone through the fleshy part of his right forearm and skinned the chest muscles of his right side.
The great crowd that had assembled to bid au revoir to the Premier was infuriated by the dastardly attempt upon his life. The would-be...
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