The Near East

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3867, 30 April 1906, Page 4

The Near East

TROUBLE BREWING. TURKEY AND GREAT BRITAIN. Cairo, April 26, The Sultan has replied to the Khedive that bo is unfavourable to further discussion. The Tabah dispute now rests between Britain and the Porte. The Sixth Inniskilling Dragoons are proceeding to Egypt. London, April 26. An nnconfirm ed report states that the First Division of General French’s First Army Corps has been instructed to prepare to mobilise It is hinted that the division is intended .for South Africa, but, if the report is confirmed it is likelier to be owing to the Sultan’s bellicose attitude. A battery of the Horse Artillery, and three companies of Inniskilling Fusiliems from Crete have been transferred to Egypt. Reut.er reports it is intend* d to increase the garrison to five thousand. The Times’ Cairo correspondent says tbe report credited in official circles is that the Turks destroyed boundary pillars at Rafa, near Elarish.

In the House of Commons Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary, stated that. Lord Cromer, the Egyptian authority, considers that in view of the unrest existing in Egypt, which in some measure is due to the action of the Porte in connection with the frontier dispute, it is desirable to reinforce the garrison. This will be done, but the actual details are still under consideration. It is impossible to say ow long 'he increase will be neces-■s-iry. This must depend on circumstances. The Times declares that Sir Edward Grey’s statement as to the increase nf the garrison and his reference to the Porte’s action was a serious an"onncemenl, and it trusts the sign’fieance will quickly b*, understood at Constantinople and Oaii o.