New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-23
PRESENT SITUATION GRAVE

,r,,a condition % affairs. bad th'h ~
.a.,.o,,. c.creo to-day. Sir Eldon Gorst'
nc bay, mentioned above iih"T'i'' u
hat through his intimacy Win '"'
,.,.s,i,.o no could remedy the situation
-. means Of Cancellation. HIS p'Hcy'
,,o,,o,.or was regarded as weakness. ana
,,o No,ionalists and all the anti-Eng'lsh
clement. from Abbas II down |" '''
brnbIest departmental clerk or village
,ldcr considered themselves ar H''rE
90, only TO font tn, Views of the tnElSi
,,,,.errmcnt. but also pgh.iely 10 Insult
pri,iab officials in Egypt and even I"
,.cro,. irdipuitics 70 mere English tourists.
rt,,t This Sc no cxaggcration Is shown by
clio murder of the Premier. Boutr'S
pacha. ON account Of his pro- hhRllSH
e,nuatnics. by the popular roj"icinss III
cairo over his death, by the difficulty OK
,,o,icnccd in bringing his assassin and
.to,c all the instigators ~ the murder
+o i,,etlcc. bv Colonel Theodore koose-
,.,I,,e much criticised demand. made both
I'm Ecypt and aftcrward. at the L'r"
MAYORS Gundhall luncheon IN London
that England should do her duty IN pre-
.c-yiug law and order on the banks "I
thc Nile or else clear out, and last but not
Ioae, bv the late Sir Eldon Gorsts own
admissions. i'm his most recent Official re-
norris presented to Parliament, thai ms
policv Of cancellation had been a failure
and that n tightening of the Brltsh rem
I'm every branch of the Egyptian admin
istration had become matter OF the ut
most urgency. Sir Edward Grey. the
Secretary Of state for Foreign Affairs
has also acknowledged in the House oi
Commons that a reversal oi the policy
Of attempting to substitute native Tor
English officials had become necessary
and that II had been decided to ompha-
siza in very marked manner the Brit
jsh mastery Of Egypt
And now follows the appointment ~
Lord Kitchener to Egypt-of that Lord
Kitchener who. while still commander
I'm chief Of the Egyptian army a couple
If years or so before the victory at ON
durham and his emancipation of the
coudan from the crushing, devastating
thraldOm OF the hIldllld' ''ilp'll'' wv
IShedive TO make public and humiliat-
ing analogy to the English officers of his
army for unmerited criticism and even
/ insulting remarks. which he had been
induced by his anti-English friends to
| issue on "A memorable occasion on pa
| rade. Not even Lord Cromer ever sue
/ ceeded i'm bringing the khcdiyc TO make
ca complete and abieCt "A Withdrawal or
one which Abbas felt more kceniy, and
II may safely be said that there Is no
Englishman whom he detests more cor
diallv and whom he fears so much as
Lord Kitchener That is why Lord
Kitchener is being sent To Egypt.
There are other reasons why Lord
Kitchener should he I'm Egypt Just at
present From a British point of view
the land OF the Nile occupies a strategic
| position of unique importance. Premier
Asouith. I'm the House Of Commons the
| other day, when referring To Frances
occupatIon Of Fez, to SPANS appearance
at I.aracke and Tetuan. and TO Ger
manv's dispatch of a warshp TO Agadir
9, rho mouth of the Sus River, on the
Atlantic coast of Morocco. where some
of tho Kaiser's armed forces have been