EGYPTIAN SITUATION

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 11 December 1924, Page 7

EGYPTIAN SITUATION

Per Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, December 9. The “Daily Mail” says the real test is still to come, and asks whether the Government’s searrii for Sir Lee Stack’s murderer was a mere make believe. “We cannot expect gratitude from a forgetful people like the Egyptians, but we are determined to have their respect, even if it means the disbandment of the Egyptian Army and the restoration of martial law.” The Cairo correspondent of “The Times” says the Governors of all the provinces attended a special conference of Ministers, when Ziwar Pasha, who is also Minister of the Interior, delivered an important address to them. He reminded them that they were supreme under the Ministry of the Interior in their respective provinces, and they must administer without any outside interference. The Government looked to them to ensure that no political propaganda is carried out unlawfully. These injunctions obviously refer to the state of affairs existing under the previous regime, when Administrative officials were constantly interfered uilh by Zaghlulist Senators and Deputies, who seemed to consider their Parliamentary position gave them authority oyer official Government representatives, who were also subjected to other outside interference. The new Government’s action should conduce to terminate a condition . I tilings which had become intolerable to both the responsible officials and the people, and there is a hope that henceforward provincial government will follow the normal, regular course, is it did prior to the Zaghluiists’ accession to power.