THE REGENERATORS OF EGYPT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5567, 16 May 1896, Page 6

THE REGENERATORS OF EGYPT.

Dr Conan Doyle, writing from Cairo to ■the' Westminster. "GaMtc yj(" Before, the, (3ainpjj%ii^; '^ye^'^feciirß-^f tfffi^S'H^lJSii;,. men -\vho are. -to ' Da-^aeen wtthni'vfch'e pre-- ; ciuts tbt' the Tuvf Club there— men who have, lie says, done so much to regenerate Egypt. "O.? all the singular experiences ■ o'E tnis ..- VeneraWe 'la,ncl.'V ( « rites "l)r Doyle) " surely ihys re'binldingafc tjiehfinds pi■ a little : gvottp of bulling 1 , clearheaded Anglo-Saxon's is the moi3t extraordinary. There are Garstin and Wilcocks, the great; -water captains, who have coaxed the Nile to -right and to left, until the time seems to b« coming when none of its ! waters will ever reach the Mediterranean at all. There. is Kitchener, tall and straight I a grim, silent soldier, with the weal oi : a .Dervish bullet upon his face. There you may see ttogers, who stamped out the cholera; Scott, who reformed the law; Palmer, who relieved the overtaxed i'ellaheen; Hooker, who exterminated the locusts ; Wingate, who knows more than any European of tho currents of feeling in the Soudan — the same Wingate who reached his arm out a thousand miles and plucked Slatin out of Khartoum. And beside him the small man with the yellowbrown moustache, and/the cheery, ruddy face is Sla-fcin himself, yrlvose one wish, in the wOi'ld now is to have the Khalifa at.his sword poiut-^-that Khalifa at whose heels,?, .he had run for so many weary year's, i ;i ■«