CAMELS AND KOW TOWS.
QUAINT CONCESSION AT CAIRO THE NATIVES' SALUTE TO •BRITISH FORCES. (Preis AjMociation.—By Telegraph,Copyright). London, Yesterday.
A eorrespondet at Cairo states that Sir Eldon Gorst has ordered that in future natives shall not be required to dismount from camels in order to salute British officers.
The correspondent predicts that the natives will continuo to pay the usual compliments to native magnates, but are delighted at the chance of insulting the British, and considers that Sir Eldon Gorst's order was issued shortly after a British battalion had been insulted in tiie streets of Cairo, so that this concession to British sentimentalists is specially famous.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1030, 7 June 1910, Page 5
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