The Timaru Herald TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1908. THE BRITISH IN IGYPT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13706, 22 September 1908, Page 4

The Timaru Herald TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1908. THE BRITISH IN IGYPT.

0«m FiTcueti'a lecture Inst, eveuing wa» ' an hitfivsiing review of a' very hitfervsting psi.«sjge in lite hfetory uf Gn'afc 'Britain. TV story of faeY V interverition in Kgypfc and of Iter continued occupation of ih* Valley of the Na*, A a» the lecturer remarked, *e«ns to hejong &*► cprow op« 4 rather than to serious ndUon»l„Hfe. Wtf twrd not cover again ttie historical ground, over which' Dean pitclwtfc took his audi- «■««!*, me me- of which, by the way, *» hoptx m not aii.accatiM index of the interest taken by the people of Titnarii in thing* oiitsidw ■ their, own little concerns: the community iuu*4. Ixs dwarfed indeed if if cannot spar* a little thought for ilip grv»t works that have iWn done by our cofinu-yinen for humanity and civilisation iu different parts of the, world. Nothing vioh» «ucvt-*udul of its kind has lieen underlain and accomplished than' tin? regeneration''of Kgypt by the nation of which New Zealand claims to be such si patriotic unit. The difference W*«*u' I %ypt ° r 1882 ant ' <** K sy.pt" of 1908 is »o stupendous 'ihat, the who!<» eivHuted world gives geueroutv ..to. the change wrought in a .quarter of ra, e«w tiny by British* sflptrvteion. When the British -were forced to occupy.tin* country at du- time- of ArabiVt reVIUou, Egypt was one of tin? worst governc-d safrnpHH of the effete- Turkish Empire. N«i weiv iu* people, oppressed and but Cairo was a hotb*:d of aioifafliWedatt fanaticism-. Th* vasfe etaiMUiUAenU of EurojMfciH investors pitied to to'lost b»vond j*call. Trade, in th*> Ka*wrii Mediterranean was Ixt'ng grievously ittjilivd by the defalcation*, of th* KgyPf'**'! Government- and *d»«» uiindiu.e*s .of llw* Kgypt ian imputation. Kg)*!*- ■***♦■■ tact, a malignant political sot* OM-th» gfrat artery «f commerce betweenKurope and dw. KJini-a danger )« itwdf >nd to ti... j«-ace «f ilw world. Tlit* country, it«lf waii given over to d«cay. bmiuiN* ! a bankruptgorerflmeJit and corrupt jnagiatiatcH had capped away all tb« vigour and .independence of the peopl*. To : day Egypt w.owi of tiw most prosperous countries iu the world. H ha*-been Meadily jmytng off it* deb!*, and it* credit 'among 'investors in rcsl*irt<t. The. d.rviidias b*v« brett driven out "i ii" }ntit«rland/ and i; i» no iongrr <»-*j»o.vil to -rite Uur«st.uf ,i barbaric invasion tr«M» - "i"axa« tjon ha* t!<c. only made regular, but it hast al*.» l*-*n givatly tvdnted. Ae ih" i ~«ln« , ii'ue ihr fertility of the mil. ha* lc-»-n portnaiH'iitly i»ei«a.visd ..by rt-v. rNiirtng «>t<t and <-unt>Vnitiling irtlgai.i.ii Hiiriwu. The coiitUt have pinged, and ab'wdutc txjuaJity Iw'ft.re the jaw ha» |«>}!td,i!i<ili, Ail «>(' «<Ju.a'.i'iii. -.<•<. s iiis<itl hh well ;i* literary, hj»« ht«-i» Such in hri«d at* tbn M-ftjiitiSir-rn! rt-tortn't 3<<LOiiijdi«>cv| by Hrt•Uh r«l«- in l';,:yj>s wiUssj* a «*.nipsrativ*»ly *b*»rt «»psc" <rt UlllA Hut diw tJ«,*\R *i!jLu»j: i"f'iib» *•» t-»f »'« i»H3«r»»J. and u will br- I->r*g In-furr «.b* '.-an t,. (ni-f'it ■" iiimagp tl*eir i*>»iored p>*JriusMtiv wi-.!if»(is ai«! ui l!»<* }»nart!iaa. ,<i»'i rwbhs («)«•?. Tin- Vty Wr*i!l», »iit>b (ho !i*t iptaritT *>i a i«nittry lw*» t-. I'i-Tyjjt vtuiiiti In- .-», !w*t* tctnp* !.i;>.in !f« Kgyptj.'m «.ft(ii,il» tsi>te--«t JheV hU«-w 3)i.»! IvriiitHl tbr Kbed;v« «tti! l*-hind ,U»V n»l«t)!>ai au»>'Uihiy !!»<-!»• W,it iili cVftf» w.itibtul pfiKs-r dc'-»•?»«in*-»l t«i ne* 4k

_ ... . . maintained, MagninBritain!* work.in Egypt lws -WniTitf»'not yet finiibedr and that; is the true justification for the continuance 'of- the authority- »he exercises there.