Evening star., 1923-02-23
BY THE MARaUIsE DE FoNTENOY.

King Fuad and his ministers have
climbed down as the result of what
was virtually an ultimatum presented
to them by England's plenipotentiary
in Egypt, Field Marshal Lord Allen
| by. He gave them twenty-four hours
in which to yield, and after Fuad and
his ministers had been in con--'7uo us
session for eighteen hours at the Alb
deem Palace they notified Lord AL
llenby that they agreed to eliminate
from the new constitution, now about
to be promulgated, all mention of the
fnadmissible Tetensions of Fuad to
proclaim himself in that document to
be the sovereign of the Sudan. The
Egyptian government likewise gave
! its consent. heretofore denied, for the
issue of an indemnity edct approx
ling everything that had been done in
the past by Great Britain, or at its
behest, in Egypt. Lord Allenby, pur-
suant to the instructions from Lord
CurZon, for which he had asked by
cable, gave King Fuad to understand
| in his ultimatum that If the Egyp-
tian government did not yield on both
points within the time limit, Great
Britain would resume her full liberty
of action In the land of the Nile, and
regard the experiment of quasi SOW
ereignty of King Fuad and of Egypt
as at an end.
The firmness shown by Lord Cur
zon and Lord Allenby has had a very
SOLDERING effect upon the natives in
Egypt, and there is no doubt that but
what from henceforth there Will be
q far more drastic enforcement of
law and order by the native authori-
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afforded to oreigners-especially to
Englishmen, the frequency of murder
Gus assaults upon whom had become
alarming in the extreme, and an in
creased Difference to British advice
and recommends tionS, which during
! the past year have been too often
spurned, and even derided. 1t will
also dispel the uneasiness which had
been created in the Sudan among
the natives, who dreaded above every
thing else TO have to give their allie
glance to the Egyptian government
instead of to Great Britain, to whom
they owe their liberation from the
destructive tyranny Of the dervish
leader and Madhi, and the wonderful
prosperity which they are now en-
| joying-thanks to her maintenance of
law, order and the rights to property.
and the influx of large sums If Eng
/ lish money for the development Of
the resources of the country.
J X X K
Lord Sheffield, who has just been
celebrating his golden wedding ami
versary with his wife, sister of Sir
Hugh Bell, the north of England
ironmaster Gather of Miss Gertrude
Bell, the uncrowned Queen of Mesa
| potamia), is a remarkably clever and
gifted man, who is not without a
| touch of eccentricity. For he is the
only peer who has undertaken to
| champion in the house of lords. the
| cause of Russia's blood-stained boil
| sheviki, who have brought such dis
honor, ruin and devastation upon
| their country. He has taken up the
cudgels in their behalf, and in an
| extraordinary speech, delivered last
year in the upper chamber of West
| minister. assailed the government for
| the alleged injustice and harShness
| " hich had characterized it's treatm ment
/ of Trotsky, Lenin, Tchitcherin, and
| their fellow anarchists. He also urg-
! ed that there was no evidence to sup
port the charges of their having be-
| trayed Russia to Germany. lie re-
ceived in, teply a scathing rebuke
from Lord cturzon. in the name of the