Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-08-19
CHARGES EGYPT SUFFERS UNDER
 BRFTAIN'S HEEL
England Has Taken Possession Under Guise of PrOtectOrate,
 Folk Claims.

Washington, Aug. 18.-In a brief
 filed today with the foreign relations
 committee of the United States sen-
 ate, Joseph w. Folk, former governor
 of Missouri, counsel for the Egyptian
 commission charges that England
 under the guise of a protectorate
 over Egypt practically has seized
 that country as British possession;'
 that in an annex to the peace treaty,
 the status of Egypt would be made an internal question:" and beyond the jurisdiction of the council of the League of Nations, which council the
 Egyptians desire to pass upon the status of Egypt"
 The document sets forth that the original occupation of Egypt by Brit ish troops beginning in 1882, was claimed by the British government to be merely temporary for the purposes of suppressing "rebels," and collect ing debts due, to Europeans. The British government, says MT. Folk, pledged Egypt and the world that this occupation would be only tempo Tary.
 After giving resume of the poli- tical history of modern Egypt and the alleged wrongs done in that country to enforce British rule in the last several decades" the brief recites the story of the killing of 800 and the wounding of 1,60O Egyptian natives last April in the streets of their cities while holding demonstrations for freedom under the 'selfdetermina- tion' clause of the peace treaty"
 MT. Folk, who was formerly soli- citor for the state department and who now represents the commission which was named by the executive assembly of Egypt a majority of whom were elected by the people he says, calls attention to the fact that Egyptian troops, numbering one mil lion fought on the side of the allies to make, as they believed, the world safe for Democracy" and the right of national elf-determination for all peoples.
 Egypt, before the war, he says, was independent for all practical purposes though under the nominal sov- ereignty of Turkey and subject to an. annual tribute to Turkey. On Decem- Der 18, 1914, it is stated Great Bri- tain removed the ruler of Egypt and appointed Prince Hussein as "Sul- tan," ostensibly as war measure and assumed by the Egyptians to be such.
 When the time came for making peace, Mir. Folk observes, "the Egyp- tian people naturally concluded that since, under the League of Nations, they would be preserved from extern al aggression, the protectorate of Great Britain would be removed. But, they were doomed to disappoint- ment." The Egyptian legislative as- sembly commission on the way to Paris to present that country's claims. it is charged, twas interned by order of the British government, upon reaching Malta" Released up- on the, recommendations of General Allenby it sisrsaid, it reached Paris, 'only to find, with amazement, that l a recognition of the British protec- torate over Egypt had been written in the treaty."
 In, conclusion, the brief states:
 "Yhe condemnation of Egypt with 1 out "a hearing before an information al tribunal, if one is established | would mean the continued. subjection of Egypt to British bondage and l continued moving down by British l guns of these liberty-seek- ing people who fought with America 1 to make the world safe from military 1 autocracy."