EGYPT.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 March 1919, Page 5

EGYPT.

SITUATION CAUSES ANXIETY, FIRM ATTITUDE OF GOVERNMENT. GENERAL ALLENBY'S OPINION. London, March 21. Mr, Harmsworth, in the House of Commons, stated that the situation in Egypt was causing the Government considerable anxiety. » The Foreign Office had refused to receive the Egyptian Nationalists in London because their claims did not admit of discussion. The situation demanded firmness which the Government would enforce with all the powers at its disposal.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

Paris, March 22. Genera! Allenby paid a hurried visit to Paris, conferred with members of the conference, and supplied first hand information regarding Palestine and Mesopotamia. General Allenby, speaking to the Empire Press representatives, said the civil administration was under military supervision and was doing good work. Everything was quiet, and the old Turkish laws ere being administered by British officials. Whei\ it wias remembered that, the country included every shade of nationality and every shade of religion it was surprising how little trouble had arisen. We could not, however, relax military control until perfectly settled conditions were obtained.

It was now possible to travel by rail from Constantinople to Cairo. General Allenby will return forth-with.—Aus.-N.il. Cable Assn.

SITUATION IMPROVING. DETAILS OF THE RISINGS. COUNTRY WILL TAKE YEAR'S TO RECOVER. Received March 2", 11.40 pm, Cairo, March - 20. As a result of strong military measures the situation is improving. The main railway and telegraph have been restored in lower Egypt, but upper Egypt is still cut, off. A relief force his arrived to assist the officer commarding. who reports that the situation is satisfactory. There was an outbreak at Porr Said on the 21st March of the coal coolies, who attacked the residential quarter. Troop? drove them oIV, killing six and wounding seventeenMobs attacked a relief train at Mitgmar on the 23rd March. Troops inflicted a hundred casualties.

Tt transpire* that nine, not seven. P.ritish officers were murdered on the Cairo Luxor express on loth March.

Largs numbers of rioters have been arrested. Ex-ministers, religious chiefs and the nationalist leader are appealing to the peopie for the restoration of law and order, and it is liop.;d calm will soon be restored, but it will take the country years to recover from the effects of the excesses.—Eeuter