THE EGYPTIAN CRISIS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13171, 8 May 1906, Page 5

THE EGYPTIAN CRISIS.

MEDITERRANEAN FLEET ]

READY.

LORD CHARLES REIIESFORD

IN COMMAND. By Telepraph.—Press Association.—Copyright* "■';

(Received May 7, 10.45 p.m.) " ' London, May 7. Vice - Admiral Loud Charles :: Beresford, with the Mediterranean '■ fleet, lias arrived in the Bay of Phaleron, oft Athens, and will pro- ;. eecd to Piraeus and await orders ' : .\ regarding the dispute with Turkey. ; The fact that Great Britain has ;j| sent an.ultimatum to the Sultan of Turkey has had a sobering affect on the Mahommedans o£ Cairo, and the : sermons preached on the Sinai ques- ,-; tion are now less inflammatory. The Constantinople correspon- : dent of the Times reports that* -V- r there is a growing impression there* ; that one result of the Sultan of Tur- -<; key's obstinacy on the Tabah ques- ,yi tion will be a change in Egypt's re- ■ - lations with Turkey. It is felt that* , the part, played by the Sultan's re* presentative in Egypt, Mukhtari % Pasha, will justify Great 'Britain ins, ■:{: refusing to allow a Turkish repre- ; sentative to remain at Cairo,-as the 1 , Commissioner's mission apparently!

is to encourage au anti-British agi*. talion, subsidised from .Constantly

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AIMS OF THE SULTAN. Loxnox, May 6. ■'. The Constantinople correspondent! of the Daily Telegraph says, the ob« jeefc of the Sultan of Turkey in seiz*. ing Tabah is to secure a direct roilEo,from Syria to the Arabian provinces of Hcdjaz and Yemen, and thus'torenable his troops to move into Ark*'' bia without leaving Turkish terry A lory-.