LULL AFTER STORM.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16606, 9 December 1924, Page 9

LULL AFTER STORM.

EGYPT'S NEW CABINET

MAINTENANCE OF ORDER

LONDON, Nov. 25.--A lull in Egypt is regarded as inoviUtbvc «itli the change of Cabinet which b likely to yuveeii Egypt without becoming cnyiosscd in external politics. The new Administration consists of Ch'.islians, Jew.';, and Moslems

'\'\\- uulslai'diug figures arc Yehya I'rshii, Minister :V; \\n. wliu icr) lu.

; i!-. iniu-c L Mitch in L)?-3i Mohanae I'i.sb.i. Minister foi Work-, who is a ii'Ol : I lilt Cll iilir. 1, ,;nd All Pas'llU, Mill i-ter'for Agriculture, who i- n lainl"V. IK'I . Tltu mi v Mini.-I y contain? no srcl'-m oniparubl.: iu Ihu nicrincirs of Zaghlul .'•t-'ui V Cabinet-. Tin: new 1 rime Min : ster of Egypt. '/,]'•-< ar Pasha, being iuli iev Jil I;; t'r •'..'; iio correspondent uf tlit- Tinn*. do.'iar- ;•!: "Tin. t>)!.<'iii.ikiii'-c of oidtr is aUsi'*-. utc'y es.-i■■ntiiil, and I and my colleagues ire iJctcrmintv] not to allow anything iu disturb tlic peace of the coun'ry." Ziwar Pasha added that the Ministers were Cullv aiive Lu the'r gre.it responsibil'ties aud diflieultio-'. bin they trusted Ilia' :vcu'.uallv Britain would display Hit -Miic goodwill that shei had always shown [a Egypt. A stal. 1 of hosti'itv be'ween '■' ;\ |.i( and Britain would inn!'* the post ion of my Cid'iiiet difficult, and it- ion '••'■iiuation wi uif I itse'f be detrimental If the interestj of Eyypl. MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S TASK.

Mr. Austen Chamberlain's Notus tc Egypt show that firmness is required in handling a dangerous situation, and lie can be assured, says the Daily .Mail, of I lie nation's full and unflinching; support in whatever further action may be re quired.

The cruel murder of fcj-ir Lee Slack v not an isolated crime. It is, says the wtiler, the culmination of a ••rave serie if outrages against British subjevts einc< Egypt received a D emntuie yranl of nv 'deiu.v whii'h EcvpH'an politicians and mobs have gricvnuslv abused. Then are nnlv a Fi iv in winch tin riininais bave teen puuishol. Mr. Chamberlain li;is to deal v ith •

'■"inipaie.n against the. British rare, deliberately engineered and curriel on wit') the secret and open support of Egyptian Ministers, The object of the campaign : * to dr\e 'ho R'itwh cut of Esynl an<) 'he Sudan, but the British peo>>'c do not 'ntc.nd to bo dvivi n out of Eeyot by oo'iticial I'.ssassination and intrigue. The snfplv of Die Sue;', ranal i« mr>n tioued. by the. paper as vi'nl to tin; Em •>u'e. and earlicularlv to Australasia. If 'be British left Kgypt. some other Powei

••ould within a Few hours find il neees wry lo occupy the country, which is in iupablc of governing itself. THE RECENT SECRET SESSION.

The secret session of i.lie Egyptian Parliament a| which the British Note was dirciifiseJ lasted two hours. The corrc -pendent of the Times at Cairo slo-tw thai he was reliably informed that the •najorily of deputies who appeared t<> be in a. tnjeu'ent mood, at first, wanted to reject all the, British conditions. A loni; unj warm discus>don ensued, mid it. was then agreed to'accept all the conditions directly concerning the Sirdar's murder, that is to say. Nos. 1. 2. uid 4 of the main Note, it being declared iu connection with tho last-named that f the British Government wanted an indemnity it had better bavw it.

Regarding the demand forlhc suppression of demonstrations, Zaghtul Pasha intimated that thev should accept, as he never liked the demonstrations, but the Chamber declared that it considered the demand an unwarrantable interference in interior matters, and that il was not pcepared to eivi the iindertakini;. The C'hambii'. however, eventualK' decidoJ to accept this demand) but categorically rejected the remiiiuini; conditions.

Tlie newspaper The People says tliat it believes that despite the sternness of the Notes there; is no intention to reimpose the British Protectorate, if Egypt complies with tho demands. Egyptian opinion is si> inflamed and miseuided that thcVe is a livelihood of rejection, accompanied by Ziighlul ■ Pasha's' r< -igu.iticn resulting in a situation which experienced Cabinet Ministers balieve would be tha most serious since the< war.