New Britain herald., 1922-02-28
IO.OOO,OOO Affected.

Egypt, with its population of 10,-
 Oo0. .0o0 Fellahs, Copts and approSim-
 ately 1O0,0 foreigners, is nominaity
 part of the Turkish Empire but vlr- tually constitutes a dependency of | England. It's government is an Hereditary monarchy whose head,
 from 1892 to 1914, was the khedive Abbas Hilmi.
 The strong pro-German and pro-, Turkish attitude of Abbas Hilmi early in the war led to his deposition and
 he was succeeded by his uncle. the former Prince Ahmed Fuad. a1 one time president of the University of
 Egypt, who was invested with the Utie of Sultan Hussein Renal. Abbas Hilmi became an exile and issued oclamation from Constantinople in 1915, calling upon Egyptians and Sr- danese to rise against England. whom he charged with his overthrow. Later he was known to have financed Bofo Pasha, the defeatst agent, executed by the French. In 1919. Abbas Hill mi's estates in Egypt were confiscat- ed by the government
 Many Factions.
 tNtNtl dl idNtIobo CNi'' III iS6yPt' at of them committed to independence or greater freedom from British rule. Followers of, Abhas Himi and the Nationalists led by Said Zagloul Pa- sha constitute the radicals; adherents Of Sultain Hussein Renal are the moderates Said zaglouI Pasha was banished to Ceylon by the British on December 20, 1921, following serious riotng in Cairo, Alexandria, Tanta and other places, in which scores were killed, many wounded and sev- eral hundred persons arrested.
 Convention Rejected.
 The present disturbed conditions followed the rejection. by an Egyptian delegation representing the sultan. of a proposed convention by the British providing for termina- ton Of the protectorate which has continued since 1914 and for new measures of native administration under British control.
 Adley Yeghen Pasha. former pre- nier, spokesman for the Egyptians at .ho conference in London. in decin- ng the proposals offered by Marquis -urzon. said the British governments plan Hailed to satisfy the national as- xrations of Egypt"
 Field Marshal Allenhy, the British in Cairo, in q communi- ,ation to the Sultan transmitting the erms offered by Marquis Curzon, British foreign secretary, said: Scarcely generation has passed nce Egypt was rescued from an- rchy and there are signs that the Xtreme clements in the Nationalist movement are even now capable of ,lunging her back into the abyss from rhicb she has so recently been rais- d." Niscount Allenby declared that the British Empire must have tlrm uarantees against any menace to it's n,erests" and that martial law would ease as soon as an Act of Indemnity ad been passed and had become op- ratiVe in all the civil and criminal ourts of Egypt.
 Terms Offered. The terms offered to the Egyptians V Great Britain included an agree rent to grant independence on three first, the appointment of dvisers for the ministries of finance nd justice; second, control over for gn relations; and, third. the reten- on of British army of occupation.
 was reported that the delegation ,cepted all three conditions, the nly disputed point being the ques- on as to where the British troops ,ould be stationed. Adley Pasha de- anded that they he confined to the iarding of the Suez Canal but Lord nrzon insisted they be stationed at ,rious points in the canal zone as ell as in Alexandria and Cairo. The return home of the Egyptian 'lcgates on December s, 1921. was gnalized by boycott of British ,ods in the city of Edfou. other wns soon following in conformity ,h a plan of the moderate Nation- ists to adopt the mon cooperation"
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