CONDITION OF EGYPT.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14154, 17 April 1916, Page 2

CONDITION OF EGYPT.

STATEMENT BY THE SULTAN

GRATITUDE TO BRITAIN

Tho European edit ion -of the "Now York Herald" pabbshos an intorestin;^ . irjtorvier,- granted to its Cairo corrcripon dent '-by the Sultan of Egypt, Hussoiu Kamel. The correspondent saj's that tlip SnHr:!i him with ontstretched i-:;:¥>i, in true- American | fa&hion and talked in a very free and! cordial manner. "I have experienced various fortunes," said the ,Sultan. "As Princo 1 Hussein I was freer an 1 happier. I! bud not all these- cares and re.sponsil::litie.s, and a burden of work which] no. Ter ceases. But when Turkey e;;tec-i ed tho war, could I rofu.se? Cdnl-i I,' a T'rince of the House of Mohammed Ali, stand by and refuse to do my part iv preveritino; the destruction of tho J v/ork for the- regeneration of the Egyptians that had been so gloriously! bfsgun by my immortal grandfather? Until Mohamir.ed AH came the Turkish domination was a curse to Egypt. It has been a blight to every land subjugated and held for long by the Oslnaniis. Look at the ccmitries lik-3 Ivouinania, Greece, and I'nlgaria, and contrast them witli. Tiirkoj'. 5' "Tlie German papers soy," remarked the interviewer, "that tho Egyptians 'sire so eager to get rid of the British, especially since the Protectorate ■■■■was established, that the coantry. is seething with sedition, and evpry Motion} will welcome the arnnVs <<i" the KhnliV "So much the better for us, if the C»>?nn.ans delude tliemsehes and t:^e Turks with any such wild notion. For it will bring them 011 and help to hnstsn their dowp.fall. We Egyptians look

upon tho British as friends "and defenders. We know that we should have been lost last year had not the British come to our help. The British havebeen in tho past what- they certainly are now—a blessing to Egypt. ~ ' • "I am extremely , gratified with the measures that have been taken for the defence of my country and my people. More than that, I am .confident of the efficacy of those measures. You may 1 rest assured that Great Britain, for the sak© of her colonial Empire, will make a supreme effort to protect the Suez Canal and defend Egypt. She will not stop at any sacrifice of men or money. For this is vital. I have not the slightest apprehonsion, I will tell you frankly, J either of foreign invasion or internal 1 unrest. "You need only look at the British 1 troops in Egypt and think of, whore 1 they come from to' realise how magnifi- . eently this war is proving the solidarity Lof the British Empire. After the war. ' having demonstrated that .she could I hold by blood and countless sacrifices, 'in which the colonies themselves co- ' operated, this great Empire, it is mi- ", likely that the Suez Canal and Egypt; will be less necessary to and : less ap- ' predated by Britain than before. I , should not have accepted the Sultanate I under British protection had I not been 5 loyal to and sympathetic with that great '' liberal nation, with whom I am glad to ' work for the. progress of my people, 1 economic as well as moral. "I have been Sultan now for more 1 than a year, and I have found the ' heads of the British Government, and their delegates here, with whom I «m jin intimate daily touch, loyal to me jsnd to Egypt. I shall continue to ' work with them as long as they believe in my loyalty and sincerity. Were this not so 1 should resign immediately. At the age of '64, after a lifelong knowledge of the British, I consented to ' work with them for the regeneration of my country, for the fulfilment of the wonderful dream?; for Egypt and her : people that have come to me from my s august ancestor, th 0 founder of my ' house."