Egyptians nationalist sentiment reached a high point after the 1906 Dinshaway Incident, when following an altercation between a group of British soldiers and Egyptian farmers, four of the farmers were hanged while others were condemned to public flogging. Dinshaway, a watershed in the history of Egyptian anti-colonial resistance, galvanized Egyptian opposition against the British, culminating in the founding of the first two political parties in Egypt: the secular, liberal "Umma" (the Nation, 1907) headed by Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, and the more radical, pro-Islamic "Watani" Party (National Party, 1908) headed by Mustafa Kamil. Lutfi was born to a family of farmers in
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst go to the beleaguered ship and take command. Kerans decides to risk steaming down the Yangtze at night without a pilot or suitable charts. Before they can leave, however, the local communist official Colonel Peng (Akim Tamiroff) makes contact with the "Amethyst" and at a meeting between senior officers makes his position clear: either the British government releases an apology accepting all responsibility for the entire incident, or the "Amethyst" will remain his prisoner. Similarly, he will not allow the two wounded sailors to leave unless they give him statements declaring the British to have been the transgressors, which they