NATIONALIST AIMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 262, 29 July 1908, Page 7

NATIONALIST AIMS.

INDIA AND EfiTPT. A PEACEFUL AND A FORCEFUL WAY. .■A DEPUTATION PLEASED. ' (BT TELEGIIiI'H—I'RESS ASSOCIATION —COrinlQllT.) (Rec. July 29, 0.15 a-m.) London, July 28. ■At tho instance of tlio Secretary foV For* eign Affairs (Sir Edward Groy) tho deputation which has como to England representing tho Egyptian National Assembly and Legisla■■i tivo Council submitted matters which ihoy ' wished to emphasise. . Sir Edward Groy ; said ho was glad to receive for the first time ■-a deputation from the Egyptian notabilities. :■ Ho promised to oarnostly consider all that they had said, and added that .Britain had always striven, .and would . always strivo, to sccure the benefit , and progress-of Egypt. i. ■■ The members of tbe deputation are greatly .. ploased with thoir recoption. s. . BOMBAY RIOTS. ■ THE GOVERNOR LECTURES LEADING ( CITIZENS. :/' /'/ . r' ' ADYICii AND WARNING. (Rec. July 29j 0.25 a.m.) , Calcutta, July 28. Owing to renewed- rioting in Bombay, the Governor (Sir G. Sydenham Clarke) addressed a private meeting of leading citizens, : jid expressed disappointment : that the Government was not: re6eivihg .the support it . tvas'cntitlod.to expeot-from tho heads of the community. 1 ~ t- ; He warned them that the .Government would not bo.'deterred 'from enforcing 'the . law,' and that the Courts would not be prei/Tented;'frdffl:;admltlisteriflg; justice, .by- use■,.]ess demonstrations) strikes, or tho closing of: . bazaars. < The Governor said ho expected his hearers •to stand fearlessly ;on the sido of law and • order and to assist in allaying unrest. AUSTRALIAN- REGIMENT READY TO SERVE. ; : ■. , ; • Melbourne, July 28. ' Tlio Sixth' Australian Regiment has volunteered for service at Bombay if tho unrest there continues. Sir .Sydenham Clarke, lato . Governor of Victoria, and now Governor of | ' Bombay, is honorary colonel :of the regiment, .i honco tho reason/for the'regiment offering its ! • services. .'1 • ; AAA' .A ■ ''A'-'A' A' NOT REPRESENTATIVE. The " Spectator" recently -published an A ' article the moral o£ ; .which is;that the General : Assembly of-Egypt ■ does not truly represent. ■ .that' country, v.Speaking of;the last,elections, 1 ■: the' " Spectator" says:—" No ■ publio interest , seems ,to havo-been taken in these. elections, so averse >-isthe .-Eastern-mjhd'',from/ repr6-„ ../.: sentativO;institutions./-It is stated on good aur'. . thority that few of'the successful'candidates .of the various 1 Cairo wards, urbah: districts . with electorates of from three' thousand to - six thousand souls, polled much: more- than': a hundred votes) • Ali.-Youssef, tho Moderate < Nationalist, was elected toy about aihundred . .vofes of the three thousand odd electors of'the Abdin quarter.; AElis only.: opponent obtained two votes. In tho Slioubra quarter an extreme Nationalist only succeeded in getting six ■or;, sight' supporters,: while tho 1 'Uneducated' Sheikh el Hara • (Sheikhi; of a. ward) who ,j e . ■, feated ' him' obtained : tha vdtos of a hundrod and twenty friends. •■:- In'' some'of tho electoral divisions barely oflo per cent. of. tho' electorate took : the itrouble.- .tq - record /a*' vote, '/and at Heluan neither candidates nor voters appeared , at;the Courthouses/on',the.appointed day."