The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-01

rhe Prime Minister and 5lroreIgr1, Sec

Tho Prime Minister nnd Foreign Sec
rotary OF England, to say nothing 81
Lord SCromcr, must fool very uncOnfort-
able over tho stntement#inBtl1e Figaro, OF
Paris giving the Egyptian side OF II the
recent outbreak at penchawa! III Egypt.
sThe article IL by ISiamil Moustnpha
Pashu, d. leading member pt tho Nationals
lst pnrty8ot Egypt. ~. Will bo rccnlied /
%the2 Brltiah "struck terror "a tho hearts
or some rebollous and fanntIoal fellafieen
for numbering IN English officer, III Vii
Here IL AtouHtaplA Fasha & account '53s5
B On the 18th OF last June some III & y
Softlccra lott their camps and came into
the neig hborllood$ OF Denchnwal, In tho
province OF Mcnoufioh to hunt pigeons
on prlyuteslnnd An old peasant warned
tho interpreter who accompanied them
TINT last 5yonr the inhabitants had been
exasporntod ut seeing their pigeons Hhot
by The English officers, and that they
would 10 further rrItnted q X the thing
Happened again. In spite OF this war; r.
Ing tho hunt began. Shots we're ilr reg ]
( d woman was wound ed and q ~ rtnhou use
( sot blazing. VI Tho fellahs came running
from MI sides: riot took place Y w y
three Ians were Wounde g ny Is Eus
I ed by9 the Egyptuns. One Of the wound.
ed, CAPTAIN Hull, escaped from the melee
and ran at full speed, q distance Of Two We
and fn half miles under the tnrrld sun
ana fell dead Of sunatrokc, Tho lsngiish
soldiers. learning what had befallen t llst y.
officer. invaded d village close Nj %
Denchnwai. nnd killed q fellah. " crack rls'
Ing his skull. Z, !, 4,
\ Such are tho facts. Hardly ha! they
become &. known what1 tho lSng 'sh ). "
ilcias losing their heads, lou '' y 8. anso
lutely revolving tha q the bsYpstas's,3
should defend their property ana aele ~
themselves! Instead Of looking into wy
affair cooliy,b;n into "a ny other quar I ~
they exaggerated Il. and long before !, tto
sentonce mad boon pFonop need, tha news W.
pap ers devoted to Il Tho ttst occu pa Ton
announced what penalties would be I'M
posed. and that q terrible example p '
10 be made, What thoy anted was NO
juatice hit "a n nsrocloua yeng anre'.
Tho Minister OF the Interior, on Q r rue
from Mr.. Matchell tho English cohnsel-
Tor, published, a week before the VeTaic.,
an official note. in which no lolt 8ti,e
accused not a leg to stand on ana opeu's
did all in his pcSrer to prejudice me 5[le.
,,dres3Yand public opinion. A ne Wspaper
IL the service OF thet occupat ton pus si.
tl,o abuse OF justice to the point Of pup
lishfnr the news that the gallows was
already on tho way to DenchaW wal : l "
people wero terrified, and asked them - {
selves what sort OF sentence was going
TO follow such q demonstrnt lon.5 ssi3Ss
Now. II was under these circumstanc
that the court met on June 2tth.8& Ana
such a court! It was an arbitrary tIl- !
bunal, which knew Their code GOT! nor t. luW Y.
ana whose Judges might condemn me hc.
cused to every punishment 1mag'nap 'e ~, !.
court whose majority belonged 10 the
:, list u IA xv+ich admitted Mother ap-
peal nor pardon! vi. ~
The decree that created It. N lSsS-
under pressure from Lord Cron'cr--press : |
ure which never tolcrates the least re-
sistance on tho part OF khedlval govern
1nent-ths decree, say, gives any ona
VINO reads 1t an impression that the
English army to which England haa !
ntrusted the mission OF maintaining or-
der In Egypt, Is Itself IN perpetual e1s''-
ger, or else It would need no sueh coul.,
Dr. "a thor, no such instrument q terrolr's \
s, This court spent three days N lnves.
lighting tho case. 1t was clear enough
tina the English officers had provoke q stIe
relluhs BY shooting on their lands and
81 wounding woman. ana that the
,cllahs attacked the English, not as Brit
sh officers but rs poaohers, NnglaR
among others Or. Nolln, the I
courts medical examiner, admit ed !. pe.
fore the tribunal that Captain Bun dicu
Sc sunstroke ana that hls wounds alone
Would not have been enough TO account
or his death, as
Tho court gave only thirty minutes 70
:he taking Of testimony from the ntty
lccused. It refused to listen to q polloe-
nan, who declared that the Englls o.
icers fired at the fellahs, and based us !