TURKEY AND EGYPT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 419, 30 January 1909, Page 5

TURKEY AND EGYPT.

. NEW HIGH 'COMMISSIONER. ; [bt TEtEoßArn—ritEss association—corrßtanT.i ';. ' (Rec, January 29) 9.50 p.m.) : .. '■'. : ■ ..;, • Constantinople, January 29. :'■ Nouri Bey 'Has., succeeded'. 'Ahmed'.Jlulchtar fasha'.' (resigned) as Turkish-.'High Commissioner in Egypt. -•■.'.'.■. •" ; .- : - , .-,-' .'■■■■'-'■!■■■' ■'■".' EGYPTIAN NATIONALISM AND THE ■'..' :> s YOUNG TURKS. r-"- ; v ,: : The Turkish High Conimissioner in Egypt, Muk'htar Pasha, was originally appointed about 22-.years ago, , , to conclude with a British. Commissioner a convention for. the withdrawal of tho' British troops, ■ but the -iwithdrawal/ never eventuated,, and Ifulthtar.Pasha remained at his Egyptian post until, the new regime ;came about in Turkeylast year. According to; a cablegram in August, ;ho was- to resign- and the -Turkish; !Higli Commissionorship.in Egypt,-.was .to cease to exist; .Tho.latter part of: tho-cablegram, it would now appear, is not correct.; At the-same time, all'th^-indications are: that. :'the Youn,7 Turks, who rule under, the new regime, will not. give official ear. to. the Egyptian Nationalists' demand for British evacuation of Egypt. According to. the. Constantinople correspondent of -The' Times," most of the Youn* Turks; who know Egypt and the Egyptians,-ex-press considerable scepticism both as to their fitness' for Parliamentary • government, and as to'the. sincerity'"of their leaders. "The Young Turkish party, which-looks confidently to England for counsel , and aid, is most unlikely lo favour.; Egyptian Nationalist \ aspirations •■ by making any attempt to raise tho Egyptian question, so Ujng , as Ottoman sovereignty Egypt is recognised by the occupyingPowcr.and the Khedive. As one of its , members recent , j remarked, '.The new regime-Hf it:survives,. as wo believe it will survive—will have enough \o do for a generation in the reorganisation of. tho administration and tlio development of .the rsi-. sources of tho provinces that aro directly s\il\-'. ject to:it, and we are'not so foolish, as to desire the shadow of, a conflict with.'a Power which wo admire and trust.'" ; ' - In a message in August, the same correspondent stated:—The sentiments of tho press in the capital and tho provinces'towards Great Britain continue to be most friendly, The "Ikdain" publishes ■ an article by AH' Kemal Bey, the well-known Young Turk journalist, hi -answer to the-attacks ; inude on Lord Cramer by certain Egypt'" l ? Nationolist journalists, who have recently visited Constantinople.' After describing Lord Cromor's work, in eulogistic terms, Kenul remarks that 'iF .certain Egyptians imagine.!' that the country would easily, be able to dispense with his services, in the opinion 'of maj" , Turkish patriots: the Empire needs a man of bis stamp, and it is boped that his , work will serve as a''model for tho new generation of Ottomans.' The Young Turks recognise that there is a world of difference between tho--Anglo-Egyptian bureaucracy ;and, tlio defunct Palace oiu£!U'illa of Constantinople* ' ; . . ;