Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-14
WHO WILL OWN EGYPT,
Views of Col. Long on GordOn's Mission
and En&Iand's Policy.

I w HI OWN
Views of Col. Long on Gordon's Mission
and EngIand's Policy.
Col. Charles ChailIe Long, at one time
chief of staff to Gen. Gordon and subse-
quently Inspector General of the Egyp-
tian Army, says the New York Herald of
Sept. 6, is now in this city. At the time
OF the bombardment of Alexandria by
| the English Col. Long was requested by
| the United States Government by cable to
take charge of the United States Consul
late IN Egypt during the absence of the
regular incumbent. = reporter yester-
day called on the Colonel.
"What do you think of Gordon's mis-
siOnP' asked the reporter.
"a color o; heroism has been given by
the English press TO his ride across the
Atmoor, or Great Desert, from KorosE6
to Abou-Hamed," said Col. Long. s'The
truth is he was escorted by the son of
Hussein Halifa, the Governor of Berber,
whose power is omnipotent over all the
/ tribes, and Gordon never ran the slightest
! danger. Halifa is an old friend, and his
word is his bond. He undertook the re-
/ sponsibility of Gordon's safe journey to
Khartoum. His entree into that city has
been dramatically portrayed as having
! been signaled by the acclamations of the
] POpuAdlSCs VIM ulIu dS u Qlf1u6
! figure from the North. a sultan and
a savior There is nothing to prove
/ this, and it is in the highest degree apocry-
! phal. We know that when he had spent
the 10000 VIII ch he took from the Egyp-
4 tan Treasury the people coolly turned
! their backs upon him and abandoned the
| palace. / know that Gordon is absolutely
| unpopular in Khartoum. He there in
| CURED the ivory traders enmity, and
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| city. The first act of his administration
in 1874 worked great hardships to the
| ivory hunters, and was accompanied by
an act OF breach of faith-cOniscation of
I their ivory. This was, in my opinion, as
he ayowed, the egg which he laid and
which Matched the Mahdi,' for it begat a
spirit of rebellion which first evinced
itself in the instruction of Zebehr,
whose loyalty was subsequently pur-
chased and who has since become the
Zehehr Pasha, who has been forced to re-
side in Cairo at stipend of E100."
ENGLISH ANNEXATION.
''And what Of the English occupation"
II believe tnat England has always
desired to annex Egypt, and the 'evacua-
ton of the SOudan is a preliminary step
to English occupation, evacuation by the
Egyptians being necessary in order that,
untrammelled by the interferences of the
with the Mahdi. The Gordon relief ex-
petition, which Lord Wolselev has re-
celVed the mission to command is the
browning act in this evacuation comedy.
Sir Garnet will march to Khartoum and
be able to fix the date of his return to
England with almost the same accuracy
as the wager won and the dinner which
he promised to eat in London at the end
of the Egyptian campaign. The army
which he commands is an army OF occu-
patton, and Sir Garnet will remain in
hhartoum perhaps long enough to invest
Gordon with absolute power, and cause
him, as an English officer, to be recog-
nized by the ancestral powers of which
Mr.. Gladstone has evinced so much re-
gard, but who, in fact, are little more
than sheiks, whose principal business has
heretofore been slave hunting.'
do you think English rule, whether in
Egypt or In the Soudan, beneficent or
proper government in these countries 2"
asked the reporter.
81 answer most emphaticalIy, no.
The peace which Sir Garnet declared to
be the state of Egypt the morning after
Iel-el-hebir has been broken ever since
by an unparalleled system of government
al brigandage and spoliatiOn. Sir Samuel
Baker has said that the country is bank
rupt and ruined, and that England has
been a grieVous curse to Egypt and is en-
tlrely responsible for the miseries and dis
asters which have befallen that unhappy
country. Great Britain has changed the
features of the country and within two
years transformed it into an Oriental
Ireland"
BRITISH HYPOCRISY.
eff this be true of Egypt proper will |
she be more faithful ana honest in the
government which she seeks, in violation /
OF existing treaties, to seize from the |
authority of the Sultan and the KhediYe?' |
I'm this respect" answered Col. Long, |
permit me to quote the exact language !
Of Sir Samuel: When the lamented /
Hicks started from Cairo in the spring of |
1888, the SOudan was regarded as Valu- |
able territory, which only required rail- |
way Tor Its development, and this railway
from the Nile to the Red Sea was adyo-
Gated by Lord Dufferin in his most able !
and interesting report. Subsequently the |
authority of the Khedive was brutally
negatiyed, and orders given to abandon
the So1dan against the wishes of the
ruler This act, Sir Samuel SAYS, of I'M
warranted interference by which an enor-
nous area of the Ottoman Empire was
wrested from its legitimate ruler and
thrown into the direst anarchy, at once
awakened Egypt TO the hypocrisy of |
British declarations. 1t is too bad for the
fairness which one is ready to accord to
Sif samuel, Wnen the other day, nOtWlth-
standing this declaration of the hypocrisy |
of British declarations and of the villain
GUS government which he has shown his |
had given Egypt, he writes a
letter to the Times, in which he declares !
that England must be master of Egypt;
let France 90 to the deuce"
JEALOUSY OF THE POWERS.
30 you think that England will be
master OF EgyptY
81 do not. The jealousies of the powers
have been thoroughly awakened through |
the disregard of their interests by the |
government instituted by Eng |
land in Egypt. 1t must be understood |
that in Alexandria and in Cairo the Euro |
pean population is composed principally
of Italians, Greeks, French, AGstrians,
Germans. Belgians. Syrians. etc. Their |
business has been destroyed by the pro-
lection to monOpolies created in Egypt. |
Europe is slow to espouse the cause of |
france in the embarrassments created to
her prejudice and has been made to feel |
the same injury to its subjects. AS con-
the powers are ready to protest |
and remind her of certain treaties which |
she affects to despise. The French Minis |
ter, Baron de Courcel, and Prince Bis |
ference which it is hoped in Egypt may |
check British ambition in that land and |
in the Soudan."
The Swiss Landlord.
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