The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-02

r. GYPT, rather than CONSTANT
nople. has from time wei. nigh
- immcmorial been regarded os
the key OF the Orient. I.eib-
litz. the celebrated German philoso-
pier and scientist, declared to LOuis
XIV. Of France near 300 years (
hat whoever has Egypt will have all
Inc coast and islands of the Indian
Ocean; ond when Napoleon set forth
IT the end Of tho eighteenth century
10 secur for himself the mastery Of
me world he directed the steps of his
seteran army not to StamDul bu To
he land OF the Nile.
Egypt is now part and parcel OF the
British Empire. But she constitutes
hs most vulnerable point, forming as
Tho does its connecting link with all
rs dependencies OF the Orient, from
which II derives so much Of its
grandeur. its power and It's wealth.
rhe breaking OF that link through the
leizure OF Egypt and of h Suez Canal
~ Germany and her allies Is about
he most damaging and disastrous blow
.hat 1t would be poesihle to Hfict upon
Great Britain.
IL NbNlAl itAbAh pN ~ ~
i,spatch of troops. matevia. and sup
les to the British army which under
I've command Of Gen. Sir Horace
.mith-Dorricn il undertaking. the
conquest Of Gcrmany's immense East
African colony ~ well as ~ the cxpe-
~sltionary forces which under Gen. sir
iohn Nixon have invaded the Turkish
Nnpire by way Of the valley ut the
-,uphratea and Of the rigrIs. II would
,ut q stop to all rapid communication
N the part of England with India n
he other portions Of her empire ~
Ns'l, ms well rs with her ally. Japan.
aud also with China n Austra-ia,
ahilc the immensely OF the injury 10
Tor economic interests through the
ass of Egypt would he onlr epualled
~ the extent Of the domaEe To her
prestige-that prestige 10 which she
yves the submission Of some 800 .ooo'-
100 Of dusky hucd human beings oil
,vcry race and creed al Asia ana
Africa to her rule.
Last summer an article in THE SCN
called to the fact that Ger
man and German American finan-
.iers in New York. men n close touch
with the great hanging institutions OF
Berlin and with the kaiseis Govern
ment there. in discussing the cotton
.r!sis declared openly that ere an
ether twelve months were passed
would obtain all the cotton
al. needed. not from America but
rom Egypt. When 1t was intimafed to
hem that this would involve the In
yaslon OF Egypt and the expulsion OF
he English from the land of the Nile
hey insisted that this was part and
parcel OF the plans Of the Kaiser and
If the General Staff at Berlin-that
-;eneral staff which has been de
,cribed with some justice as the brain
~ his army.
At first this scheme seems to I'm
partial observers a trifie ar fetched
and as partaking too uch OF tina
optimism which has been until nov
So remarkable q feature OF h Teutor
character in the present war-a Tea
lure of boundless assistance TO the
Kaiser in maintaining the morale OF
mis- terribly hard worked troops and
IN averting the perils resulting from
the dlsappointments and disillusions OF
his people at large when he ~signal!y
Jailed To make his promised triumpha
entry into Paris fifteen months age
and 20 dictate peace to Great Britain
from London after successfully invad'
ing the United Kingdom by way OF
Calais and Dover. In August las
t'onstantinople was reported to be or
the eve OF surrender to the Allies anc
tho cooperation OF Rumania- Greece
and even of Bulgaria, with Serbia
sgainst Turkey, Austria and Ger
many seemed assured.
since then. however, the aspect O