The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04
POLITICAL CHAOS
 IN GREAT BRITAIN Liberal Success at Polls, How ever, Grows Brighter GREAT WELSH EVENT Many Wandering sons of Unique Country Will Return From All
 Parts Of the World for In-
 veStiture of Prince


 London. December .-(Special)-Doubt- ful thouga the outcome be of the present noIitical chaos, it cannot be denied that the prospects of a liberal success at the polls are far brighter than in January last. The sensational manifesto of Mr- Winston Churchill issued on the day be- fore the reopening of the stillhorn parlia- ment. made a very strong impression throuehout the country, principally be- cause of it's evident sincerity. It was more of clarion call than anything l have ever seen in English politics. and while lacking the reckless violence or the familiar socialist manifestos, which al ways scare the stolid English voters, there was absolutely no beating about the hush in the home secretary's many challenge to the house of lords, whom ne openly accused of barring the way to freedom for the people of England.
 Rnt the trend of political events in other countries has been even more favor sble>9o the cause of liberalism. Even the dulest of English readers have not been able to overlook what has happened in Germany and America since the January elections here. During the last campaign the whole conservative press of England printed columns of articles depicting the boundless prosperity of these two coun- tries. due solely to the blessings of high tariffs, but since events have shown that the supposedly so happy people of both countries have come out strongly against protection this part of the press is be- moaning the loss of very valuable campaign argument, and the German peril on sea and in the air has also been overworlSed to such an extent that prac- tieaily nothing has been heard of it since the campaign began.
 The liberal issues on the other side are clear and frm-the house of lords must be ahorn of it's pernicious power and that this is an absolute necessity is undoubt- edlv clear to the English voters. l fully agree with old William T. Stead, who said the ether day; "I have never seen a po- ntioal party go to the ballot, predestineG to utter defeat, as the English eonserva- tjves today
 welshmen from all parts of the world will be present at the investiture of the Prince or N dleS al NdlildFNOI.
 Already men in Australia in the far east. in South Africa, and in Egypt, in North and South America, have an- nounced their intention of returning to the land of their fathers in order to join with the stay-at-home Welshman in the July rejocngs.
 When the names of the visitors come to be published they will be found to in- c1ude those of many men prominent in colonial administration and certainly the United States contingent will include sev- eral men of Welsh blood whose names are known the world over.
 The holding of the National Eisteddfod almost immediately after the investiture will help to swell the tide of the invasion. Those coming for the investiture vii! stay on for the Eisteddford: those whose main purpose is a visit to the Eisteddfod will arrive d couple of weeks earlier in order to witness the investiture.
 am being told that efforts are being made in the United States to organize large bodies of visitors for the double event In at least one instance it is pro- posed to charter a steamer specially to bring over from 800 to 700 visitors from the eastern states.
 In other eases negotiations have been opened with some of the leading ship ping companies with a view to securing special terms for large contingents. one of which will come from Salt Lake City.
 Several weeks ago the booking of rooms at the leading hotels here began.
 From the returns available there ap- pears to be every prospect of d record cotton crop in Egypt this year. Warned cy the disastrous ravages of the cottoA worm and boil worm last year the gov ernment organized a vigorous campaign against these pests; stringent regulations were issued that the cultlvators must have their crops thoroughly searched and ell eggs and grubs carefully picked off, and the local authorities were required to satisfy themselves that this was being done in the districts under their supervis- ion English inspectors with native as ristants were appointed to patrol the delta and the cotton growing portions of Upper Egypt. The results have been ex- cellent. and the damage to the crops from this cause has been practically neg Eligible.
 Another important factor this season has been the satisfactory Nile flood: those of the two previous years were exceptionally high. and as this caused a corresponding rise in the level of the underground wateE the plants in many districts suffered enormous damage through the water-logging of their lower roots. This season, although there has been ample water for all purposes, the Nile has not yet been so high as to cause any damage.
 The prosperity of Egypt is practically dependent upon it's cotton crop, and it is