EGYPTIAA AFFAIRS.

Grey River Argus, 13 May 1911, Page 1

EGYPTIAA AFFAIRS.

(By Electric Tele.jrra'ph— Copyright.) LONDON, May 11. In the Blue Book Healing with the' Egyptian, conditions, Sir E. iGorst declares that as faT as the Legislative Council and general Assembly are conerned the experiment of admitting Egyptians to a larger share in the Administration has proved a failure. Both bodies during the first half of 1910 displayed a steady and increasing tendency to ibecome mere instruments of the Nationalist agitation against the occupation of Egyptians. Since November] the Council has been less impracticable and some valuable measures have ibeen passed. The failure to experiment in the direction of . self-government is attributable to the -Egyptians, the local and European ■; colonies interpreting the concessions as .a weakness and lessening British authc-ritv.