EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS. BRITISH RULE IN THE SOUDAN.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 71, 26 March 1910, Page 5

EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS. BRITISH RULE IN THE SOUDAN.

Mft. ROOSEVELT'S RECENT REMARKS. NEWSPAPER ATTACK. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Cepyrigbt. (Received Marcli 26, 9 a.m.) CAIRO, 25th March. Egyptian nationalist newspapers me attacking Mr. Roosevelt, ex-President of the United States, on account of his warm praise of British rule in the Soudan. Apprehension is felt that he will be given a hostile reception in Cairo if he repeats his eulogies when addressing the Egyptian University on Monday next. Tho police have offered Mr. Roosevelt their protection. [Mr. Roosevelt, who has been on a hunting tour in Africa, while in Khartoum addresed the students at the Gordon College. He was impressed, he said, with the wonderful results of British rule, particularly the palatial houses and gardens in Khartoum.] THE MURDER OF BOUTROS PASHA. EIGHT ACCUSED ACQUITTED. NATIONALISTS JUBILANT. CAIRO, 25th March. The Nationalists are jubilant at the acquittal of the eight supposed accomplices in the murder of Boutros Pasha, Egyptian Premier. [A Mohammedan student named Wardany was the actual murderer of Boutros Pasha. Nationalist literature found in Wardany's pocket showed that he acted as secretary to the Young Egyptian Congress at Geneva. ' Ho declarpd that he desired to avenge the Deiishawai affair and the prolongation of the Suez Canal concession. In the Denshawai affair, a British officer was killed and others were injured while pigeon shooting. Four of their assailants were hanged, four flogged, and the remainder sent to prison. Thoso imprisoned were afterwards, with the concurrence of the British Government, released by the Khedive.]