EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10965, 7 May 1907, Page 4

EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS.

— - — r*r - LORD CRO'MER'S FAREWELL. (Press Assn.— By Telegraph.— Copyright.). j „ . / CAIRO, May 6, I There was. a- -remarkable- demonstration. at Cairo in connection with! the departure of-Lord Cromer. Twelve hundred people, including high British, and Egyptian offi- • cials, assembled ati the Opera House to bid him farewell and thank him for his iterVICGB. Lord Cromer, in an energetic . speech, reviewed the past, and eulogised the work of Tewfik Pasha, Nubar Pasha. Riaz Pasha and Fehmy Pasha, and other reformers, . .Sir William Garstin, Sir Reginald Wingate, and his other colleagues. -He declared that his two objects had been th e restoration of a good understanding with France, and the introduction of a liberal spirit into the system of government, wliich necessarily was bureaucratic. He warned Egyptians against the Nationalists and expressed, a hope that the Khedive would suppress any scandals connected 1 -'with the administration of th* j wakius. or religious trusts:; would reform* -J the Mahommedan tribunals, and ignore '-flattereit9 and ovil counsellors, arid encourage honest reformers. He would thus earn the gratitude of every class.. , He emphasised the fact that the British occupation of Egypt would continue for an 'indefinite period. Britain during the con»tintiatioo of the occupation would be responsible for the mam. principles of ad- { ministratig'n. None was more capable of ! safeguarding its continuance than Sir j Eldon Gorst. tord Cromer added : "The • newspapers, European and local, have expressed the hope that he will follow my policy, which has been to tell the truth. He will follow it." * LONDON. May 6. Tlie Times says Lord Cromer's Cairo ■speech produced as; profound an impression upon the public as his resignation had done, and would go far to restore confidence. -'.' v wmaammmaemmmmmmmm