REAL TEST IN EGYPT

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1188, 10 December 1924, Page 5

REAL TEST IN EGYPT

GRATITUDE NOT EXPECTED. ■RESPECT INSISTED UPON. [By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] Received December 10, 8.45 a.m. LONDON, Dee. 9. The Daily Mail says’ that the real test in Egypt is still to come and asks whether the Government’s search for Sir Lee Stack’s murderers was a mere make-believe. “Wo cannot expect gratitude from forgetful people like the Egyptians,” it says, “but we are determined to have their respect, even if it means the disbandment of the Egyptian army and the restoration of martial law.” —Sydney Sun cable. GOVERNORS OF PROVINCES. CONFERENCE - WITH ZIRYVAR PASHA. Received December 10, 8.45 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 9. The Times’s Cairo correspondent says that the governors of all the provinces attended a special conference of Ministers, when /invar Pasha, who is' also Minister of the Interior, delivered an important address to them. He reminded them that they were supreme under tho Ministry of the Interior in their respective provinces and that they must administer them without any outside interference. The Government looked to them to ensure that no political propaganda was carried out unlawfully.

These injunctions obviously refer to the state of affairs existing under the previous regime, when the administrative officials were constantly interfered with by Znglilulist senators and deputies,'who seemed to consider that their Parliamentary position gave them authority over the official Government representatives, who were also subjected to other outside interference. The new Government’s action should conduce to terminate a condition of things which has become intolerable to both the responsible officials and the people, and there is hope that henceforward provincial government will follow the normal and regular course as it did prior to tiie Zaghlulists’ accession to power.—Times.