The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-03-03


store order.
Lloyd Georges announcement has
precipitated something of a crisis and
his resignation is regarded as not inn
probable.
Status of Egypt
Egypt, with it's population of TO-
100000 Fellahs, Copts, and approXi-
mately 100000 foreigners, is nomina-
ally part of the Turkish Empire but
virtually constitutes dependency of
England. Its government is an here
ditary 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, at one
time president of the University of
Egypt who was invested with the title
of Sultan Hussein Kemal. Abbas Hill
mi became an exile and issued a pro-
clamation from Constantinople in
1915, calling upon Egyptians and Su-
danese to rise against England, whom
he charged with his overthrow. Later
he was shown to have financed Dolo
Pasha, the defeatist agent, executed
by the French In 1919, Abbas Hilmi's
estates in Egypt were confiscated by
the government
Several factions exist in Egypt, all
of them committed to independence
or greater freedom from British rule
Followers of Abbas Hilmi and the
Nationalists led by Said Zagloul Pas
ha constitute the radicals; adherents
of Sultan Hussein Kemal are the mo-
derates. Said Zagloul Pasha was ban
ished to Ceylon by the British on De-
cember 20, 1921, following serious riot
ing in Cairo, Alexandria, Tanta and
other places, in which scores were
killed, many wounded and several
hundred person arrested.
Disturbed Conditions
The present disturbed conditions
followed the rejection, by an Egyptian
delegation representing the Sultan, of
a proposed convention by the British
government providing for a termina-
ton of the protectorate which has
continued since 1914 and for new
measures of native administration un-
der British control.
Adley Yeghen Pasha, former Prem
Ter, spokesman for the Egyptians at
the conference in London, in declin-
ing the proposals offered by Marquis
Curzon, said the British governments
plan failed to satisfy the national as
pirations of Egypt"
Field Marshal Allenby, the British
administrator in Cairo, in communi-
cation to the Sultan transmitting the
terms offered by Marquis Curzon, Bri-
tish Foreign Secretary, said: Scarce
ly generation has passed since
Egypt was rescued from anarchy and
, there are signs that the extreme ele-
ments in the Nationalist movement
are even now capable of plunging her
back into the abyss from which she
has so recently been raised" Wis
count Allenby declared that 'the Bri-
tish Empire must have firm guaran'
tees against any menace to its in
terests" and that martial law would
cease as soon as an Act of Indemnity
had been passed and had become op-
erative in all the civil and criminal
courts in Egypt
The terms offered to the Egyptians
by Great Britain included an agree
ment to grant independence on three
conditions: first, the appointment OF
advisers for the Ministries of Finance
and Justice; second control over for
, eign relations; and, third, the reten'
tion of a British army of occupation
, 1t was reported that the delegation
, accepted all three conditions, the only
disputed point being the question as
, to where the British troops should be
stationed. Adley Pasha demanded that
they be confined to the guarding OF
! the Suez Canal but Lord Curzon. in
sisted they be stationed at various
points in the canal zone as well as in
Alexandria and Cairo.
Disorders On Increase
The return home of the Egyptian
delegates on December 8, 1921, was
signalized by boycott of British
goods in the city of Edfou, Other
towns soon following in conformity
with a plan of the moderate National
lists to adopt the 'non-cooperation'
methods of Mahatma Gandhi in India
Most of the population of Egypt is
J Mohammedan and in adopting the
Gandhi policy they followed the leaC
of their Mohammedan brethren il
India now allied to the Nationalist
= movement of the Hindus. The follow
\ ers of Abbas Hilmi and Said Zaglou
e Pasha, meanwhile, turned to more vic
/ lent measures.
S Street lamps and shop windows
f were smashed in Alexandria, British
S government offices in Gizeh wer'
e raided and mobs entered the Euro
n pean quarter in Port Said. The dis
turbances became so serious late il
5 December, 1921, that special British
l. naval units were sent to Suez, lsma
a liza, Port Said and Alexandria. Cair'
l. for a time was without means o
s transportation and 400 agitators wer
arrested in Alexandria. The author