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Zaglul's reply was merely to resign (November 15)
so as to secure another vote of confidence. But Sir Lee
Stack, on his way in a car from the War Office to his
house, received a volley from seven men dressed like
students lined up along the side-walk (November 19,
1924). He, his aide-de-camp, and chauffeur were all
wounded, and next day he died. Zaglul within an hour
had hurried to the Residency to express his profound
sorrow, the Egyptian Government at once put £10,000
blood-money on the murderers' heads, and there was
some reason to suppose that the crime might be ascribed
to the activities of foreign agents.
But the new Conservative Government were in no
mood to admit any mitigating circumstances. On the
afternoon of the Sirdar's funeral, Lord Allenby, with a
military escort, drove down to the Council and delivered
an ultimatum. It demanded an apology, punishment of
the criminals, prohibitions of all political demonstrations,
and payment of an indemnity of ^500,000. It also re-
quired the withdrawal within twenty-four hours of all
Egyptian troops from the Sudan, removal of the limita-
tion that had, in the interests of Egypt, been placed on
the area to be irrigated in the Sudan " Gezireh," and
withdrawal of further opposition to the assumption by
H.M. Government of the right to protect all foreigners
in Egypt. This last point was amplified in an annexed
Note as covering such revision as we might require of
the conditions for foreign employes whether still retained
or retired, and recognition of the authority of the British
in the departments of Finance, Justice, and the Interior.
Of these demands the Egyptian Government at once
accepted all except those two that concerned the Sudan,
and the indemnity was paid within twenty-four hours.
Lord Allenby then announced that these two Sudan re-