New Britain herald., 1919-08-18
BRITAIN ACCUSED
 OF SEEING EGYPT
Former Governor of Missouri Files Charges With Senate Com.

Washington, Aug. 1S.-In brief filed today with the foreign relations committee of the senate, Joseph w. Folk. formerly goSernor 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 the peace treaty the status of Egypt would made an Sfinter;Ial question" and beyond the Jurisdiction of the council of the League of Ma tions, which council the Egyptians de- sire to pass upon the status of Egypt.
 The document sets forth that the orisinal occupation of Egypt by British trooA8 beginning in 1882 was claimed by the British government to be merely Temporary for the purpose Of 5suppressing 'rebels'' and collect ing debts due Europeans. The Brit 2sh government, MT. / Folk says, pledged Egypt and the sorld that this occupation would be only temporary.
 After giving a resume of the poli- tical history of modern Egypt and the alleged wrongs done in that country to enforce British Rule in tke last several decades,' the brief recites the story of the killing of 500 and the wounding of 1,600 Egyptian ra- tives last April in the streets of their citfes while holding demonstrations for freedom under the self deter imitation clauses of the peace treaty."
 Asr. Folk, who formerly was soli- citor, for the State departm and now represents the commission which was named by the legislative assem- bly, of Egypt, majority of whom were elected by the people, he says calls attention to the fact that Egyptian troops, mum bering 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-determination for all peoples
 Egypt, before the war, was inde- pendent for all practical purposes though under the normal sovereignty of Turkey and subject to annual tri- bute to Turkey. On Decemb Der IS, 1914, 1t is stated, Great Britain re- moved the ruler of Egypt and ap- pointed Prince Hussein as sultan, "os- tensibly as a war measure and sts- sumed by the Egyptians to be such"
 When the time came for making peace" MT. Folk observes, "the Egyptian people naturally concluded that since, under the League of Ma tionss they would be preserved from eSternal aggression, the protectofate Of Great Britain would be rem moved. But they were doomed to tdisappoint- ment.' a
 The Egyptian legislative assem bly, commission on the way to Paris 10 present that country's claims, it is charged; was ''interned by order of the British government upon reach. inxN Malsa Released upon the rac- omm mendation of General Allenby, it is said, it reached Paris only to. find, with amazement, that recognition of tKe 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 international tribunal if one is established, would mean the continued subjection of Egypt to British bondage and contin- -ued moving down by British machine guns of these liberty-seeking people who fought with America to make the world safe from military gsutocracy,'
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