Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-18
ENGLAND SEXES
EGYPT, CHARGE
Former Governor of Missouri
Claims British Under GuiSe
Has Taken Over Country
By Associated PrcS5.

Washington, Aug. 1S.-In a brief
filed to-day with the foreign rela-
tions committee of the United States
Senate, Joseph w. Folk, formerly
governor of Missouri, counsel for
the Egyptian commission charges
that England under the guise of a
! protectorate over Egypt, virtually
has seized that country as a British
possession that "in an annex to
peace treaty the status of Egypt
would be made an internal ques-
ton and beyond the jurisdiction of
the council of the League of Ma
tions, which council the Egyptians
desire to pass upon the status of
Egypt"
The document sets forth that the
original occupation of Egypt by
British troops beginning 1892, was
claimed by the British government
to be merely temporary, for the
purpose of suppressing rebels" and
collecting debts due Europeans. The
British government, Mr.. Folk says.
pledged Egypt and the world that
this occupation will be only tenn
porary.
Cites Story of Killing
After giving a resume of the poll
teal history of modern Egypt and
the alleged wrongs done in that
country to enforce British rule in
the several decades" the brief re-
cites the story of "the killing of
500 and the wounding of 1900
Egyptian natives last April in the
streets of their cities while holding
demonstrations for freedom under
the self determination clauses of
the peace treaty"
Mr. Folk, who formerly was So
licitor for the State Department
and now represents the commission
which was named by the legislative
assembly of Egypt, a majority of
whom were elected by the people,
he says, calls attention to the fact
that Egyptian troops, numbering l.
100000 fought on the side of the
Allies to make, as they believed. the
world safe for democracy and for
the right of national self determi-
nation for all peoples"
Egypt before the war. he says,
was Independent for all practical
purposes though under the nomi-
nal sovereignty of Turkey and sub
ject to a nominal sovereignty of
Turkey and subject to an annual
tribute to Turkey. On December
IS, 1914, it is stated Great Britain
removed the ruler of Egypt and ap-
pointed Prince Hussein as sultan
"ostensibly as a war measure and
assumed by thu Egyptians to be
such"
Disappointed
When the time came for making
peace, Mr.. Folk observes, the
Egyptian people naturally conclud-
ed that since, under the League of
Nations, they would be protected
from external aggression the protec-
torate of Great Britain would be re-
moved. But they were doomed to
disappointment"
The Egyptian executive assem-
bly's commission, on the way to
Paris to present that country's
claims. it is charged. was "interned
by order of the British government
upon reaching Malta" Released
upon the recommendations of Cen
eral Allenby it is said it reached
Paris only to find, with amazement
that a recognition of the British
protectorate over Egypt had been
written into the treaty"
In conclusion the brief states:
THE condemnation of Egypt with
out a hearing before an interna-
ional tribune. If one is esta tablished.
would mean the continued objection
of Egypt to British bondage and
continued moving down by British
machine guns of these liberty seek
ing people, who fought with Amer
lea, to make the world safe from
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