SUEZ CANAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 83, 9 April 1910, Page 5

SUEZ CANAL.

PROPOSAL FOR EXTENSION OF CONCESSION CANCELLED. "DOWN WITH~ROOSEVELT." By Telegraph.—Press Association.- Copyright. CAIRO, Blh April. The Egyptian General Ab&emfaly, by 66 votes <to 1, rejected the Government s proposals for the extension of the Suez Canal Company's concession for forty years aftei its expiry in 1969. Enthusiastic Nationalists paraded the streets of Cairo after the Assembly's decision was announced. Much passiou was displayed. The demonstrators raised deafening shouts of "Down with Kooeevelt." On Thursday,, ifc was stated that the Egyptian Premier had announced that th^e Government would abide by the 'Assembly's decision respecting the renewal of.tho Suez Canal concession. The Suez Canal Company pays Egypt nothing under the present concession ; if en extension of 40 /ears was granted it *vouH be agreeable to pay a sum io be defined. Referring to the Nationalist Party iS, k£.yP fc > the Cairo correspondent of The Times recently remarked :—"lt muat be remembered that this party has, since the death of its founder, KameJ, lost most of its prestige owing , to internal dissensions and to a series i of rather unpleasant- financial disclosures reflecting on the intelligence, if not i the honesty, of some of the leaders. At I one time there was open war between , the- titular chief, the Turk Mohamed Ferid, on the one hand, and Ali Kamel, brother of Mustapha, and the* Tunisian editor of tho Lewa, Abd-el-Aziz Shawish, on the other, and there is no doubt that the journal mentioned has always represented the views of the extreme Left of the party. But the party, "with all its sections, represents hiiie. Students of the secondary and higher srhools, minor officials, ex-officials, "failed B.A.'.s" a few reactionary Turkish pashas, and provincial notables compose Uie forces, to the almost complete exclusion of the mercantile class and landowners. Cairo, Alexandria, and a fe.w country towns such as Tanta, have Nationalist Club*, but the authority of Hie Abaza family ha« ke.pfc the towns of the Eastern Delta, free from their influence, and Upper Egypt is unaffected. J