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REALITY IN EGYPT.

NAHAS PASHA FIRST TRUE SUCCESSOR OF ZAGHLUL.

THE BRITISH DELUSION!

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BANK TO KITCHEN.

CLERK FORSAKES OFFICE STOOL FOR £25 A WEEK.

SOME HUSBANDS FINE COOKS.

[By Lilian Joy.]

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FISHER REPORT.

CIVIL SERVICE "LIKE

CAESAR'S WIFE."

ABOVE SUSPICION.

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1928.

If my privato means save you ex- FINAL REHEARSAL. MALARIA PROBLEM.

pense, ought I not on that account.

to have rather more latitude in my favestments and speculations?"

Inadequate Payment, It does not show in us the nice standard of honour that we exact from the service to pay our servants less than the standard that they are supposed to keep up and to ex-

own private

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EFFORTS SEEM TRITE AND UNPROFITABLE.

GLEAM OF HOPE.

[By Edgar Wallace.]

CEYLON'S LESSONS FROM MALAYA.

VISITOR'S TRIBUTE.

In

Godfrey Tearle or Owen Nares, or crease, though the percentage of

I

1

lous,"

referred particularly to drainagee

work carried out at Gunong Pulai,

The argument, is of course not only fallacions, but highly danger- ous to the best interests of the ser- vice, but there is sufficiant point in it to prick the conscience untom- [By "Scrutator."]

fortably. We must insist on A Mustapha Nahas Pasha la in

The malarial problemi in Ceylon, kense the first legitimate successar A number of men are doing their The atory of Mr. Gregory's standard of Integrity in the Civil

Do you remember that day when says the "Timex of Ceylon," though to Zaghiul. Since the day when the own cooking in these days either speculations in francs makes it Service, that is not only inflexible we put down the play, looked at one not so great as that of the Federat murder of Sir Lee Stack brought from necessity, or as a convenience, quite clear that the Foreign Office but fastidious, but it follows that another solemnly, and said: "That ed Malay States, is nevertheless about the collapse of Zaghlut and or for the sheer joy of it because is not by way of getting any in- We, too, must be equally fastidious is a play!" And how we all sat one of considerable gravity. brought the whole weight of British |they have a flair for cooking.

formation that will help anyone to about our honour in our capacity of round and decided that the only recent years, statistics have shown Influence to bear against the Wafd Two men who had been at one speculate successfully in the move-paymasters.

man to play "John Castors" was the actual disease to be on the in- party. the choice of an Egyptian of the big public schools met on a

ments of currency, One might Premier has not been dictated by crosa-Channel boat. One said that have guessed as much from the

maybe John Barrymore?

deaths has fallen. Mr. Brlan the political complexion of the he was a stockbroker and asked dilatoriness of its general now

“He'd want a million a week and Dyer, the Sanitary Engineer at- Egyptian Parliament. "Independ-what the other was doing,

service, which is always twelve

his fare!" said somebody.

tached to the Department of Medi-| ent" Premiers have been chosen to "I'm a chef," he said, "I started hours at least behind that of the

"Perhaps he'd travel second-cal and Sanitary Services, has just newspapers, and, indeed, makes a

returned to Colombo from a visit Have trouble for Egypt. Their na bank clork on £2 108. a week,virtue of avoiding that "Intelligent nect them to make up the differ class," I suggested hopefully. Independence consisted In non and when I had friends to dinner

Those were the days when the] to the F.M.S., where he has been membership of the strongest party and cooked it myself they fald, anticipation of events" that is the ence out of their in the House. The King appoints Why don't you take up cooking, old baals of financial speculation means. That is to expose them to play was a play, when every line studying the methods used by our his Prime Minister; the Parliament chap? So I went to see the chef Every one at the Foreign Office who the temptation of gambling with its scintillated and every situation hit neighbour in fighting malaria.

Interviewed by a representative elects its leader of the House. In at one of the big hotels and asked kambled in francs burat his fingers, treacherous promise of large pro-you in the eye.

How long ago was it? It must of the "Times of Ceylon," Mr. normal conditions the twp are him to teach me, and now I am

and that is exactly what one might fits without exertion. Mr. Gregory's

Dyer expressed himself in very en- Identical, or at least of one party.getting £25 a week exclusive of tips have expected. Mr. Gregory and salary when these transactions be be more than a month, surely?

"I won't say that it is dull," said thusiastic terms of the work which The appointment of NahagPasha as second chef."

his friends might just as well have gan is paid to have been £800 a In this way marks n return.

year. Even after his promotion to the producer, in his kindlicat mood. has been, and is being done in A barrister, who is himself a

been gambling on horses or dogs. normal conditions. The appoint-good cook, anys that men cooks can

There is, therefore, no question be Assistant Under-Secretary it "It may play better than it re- Malaya. "They have had the cour ments of his predecessors, excellent invariably give points to a 'woman

sayage there," he said, "to make mis- of objective injury to the State or was, according to the books of re-hearses. It shall men and stout Egyptian patriots as because men are really more

takes and profit by those mistakes. I of specific conflict of public and ference, something between £1,200 sticky?"

It was sticky, It looked like Their work in the way of reclaim- they were, were indleations of the terested in food than women. Eng-private interests, which is the and £1,500 a year. This is very low abnormal conditions which followish women rarely know what a

essence of corruption, unless we payment Indeed for the kind of sticking everywhere except to the Ing murahes and swamps, draining the fall of Zaghiul, and may at anything ought to taste like,

take the view that no one who work that he was doing-far lower audience. I could imagine my seepage, etc., is something marvel- time be brought into being by the

on the scale of Mr than any business firm would pay cynical confrere writing:- "I know one man," the barrister gambled

"At the end of the play the Mr. Dyer explained how miles of presence in a country of a foreign continued, "who can cook an omelet Gregory could possibly give his for work of one-tenth the respon-

author took- д call He vas subsoil pipes had been laid down It may pass its daya, gives a for-his first experience garrison, which, however peacefimnly better than anyone else. He gained whole attention to his official duties, sibility and one-thousandth of its

awfully well dressed but some in swamp areas at differing depths, ля л fag at The injury was not so much in what purency for the national weal eign Power immense political in Eton, and afterwards made the happened as in what people might we

what incompetent."

ench depth being tested to find out True, there are compensations in "It would be all right if it wasn't which gave the best results. He fluence. It had been made extremely most of his opportunities of obsery think was happening. As the clear that the appointment of a ing in his own menage, where close Fisher Report well says, it is not

"I simply don't Wafilist Prime Minister would be on a dozen servants' were employcil, distasteful to the British Residency, and when dining out with his wife. the "Manchester Guardian" is in-He is now formed by a special correspondent. flat, and does all the cooking. He The Wafd, in spite of its electoral manages to prepare a dinner fit for MUCCESSUS, had made itself many a king when he has guests, and to enemies by its abiminable misrule; it had alienated the Palace and the partake of it himself in faultless dreas. The dinner, of consists mainly of cold

It was inevitable that Mr. Gre Barrister's Soup Recipes, gory should be dismissed from the "A recent menu included clear service; but the matter ought not to reduce the enormous majority up, cold bolled chicken and salad to rest there. Labour, not content once held by the Wafd party. They the lettuce must be absolutely with having Mr. Gregory proved to were not able

be a gambler, is anxious also to to get rid of it dry-trifle, and cheese souffle."

The barrister cook has two ways saddle him with the responsibility wrong whatever their salary was; the first rehearsals," he reminds us altogether, and Zagħlul's successora could hold office only because even of making soup. One is to put an for the publication of the Zinovieff hut, at any rate, the public con "Do you remember how their political opponents were ready onion and a couple of carrots with letter and for the defent of the science would be clear. We are be- couldn't act for laughing? And do

"In other parts of the country, ina teaspoonful of meat or vegetable party at the last General Election.ginning to suffer from the present the difficulties of Egypt. extract in a pan with a quart of If Mrs. Dyne's former maid was system. The level of ability is you remember how one's hair stood too, wonderful work has been done. Our own position at the end of water. The other is to make a right in the first of her, allegations lower in the Foreign Oftes than in up when the villain got the girl in Land which was formerly malaria

his power?"

ridden awamp has been turned into was good nourishing stock with a cow's about the speculations in francs, other offices, précisely because our Residency

We remembered,, A girl from a good building land. about 19d, and why not in her other allegations area of choice is more limited than

Rubber es- neel which costs makes enough soup for two people from which, vague and disconnect it is for the Treasury and the other teashop brought in a tray. tates which found it impossible to for a week.

ed as they are, the conclusion might great Departments. It is becoming watched its distribution, stirred recruit labour owing to the high be drawn that Mr. Gregory was increasingly difficult

for the Civil our tea aombrely.

death rate and which were subse- actuated by improper, and it may Service to keep its very best men;

"Well, we've got to go through quently abandoned were also treat- be corrupt, malice against the our great Government Departments, with it," said the manager. "Even ed and are now in use again with Labour Party? Perhaps it is if present tendencies persist, will if we flop we can always let in full labour staffs.

In the towns sufficient answer to these supple-become training grounds for pri- 'Jest.""

malaria has been reduced to prac mentory suspicions that Mr. Mac-vate service, and will lose their "Jest" is a play that is doing the tleally nothing." Donald, at any rate, does not share men just when they are, becoming grand tour of London. It is a good Questioned as to his ideas in re- them, but believes the Foreign indispensable.

play, but no theatres are available. gard to adapting Malayan methods Office staff to have been perfectly

Practical Reform.

So it drops in between shows, stays to Ceylon, Mr. Dyer said there were loyal to himself. But it is a con- When a scandal occurs we should a couple of weeks, and then moves a number of different schemes more than re-indite the old on. You can nover be quite sure which would be put forward ten highly unlikely event of these sus maxims of public integrity in yet whether "Jeat" is at Drury Lane or though it was too early to explain picions being confirmed, no further more beautiful copper-plate. We at Everyman's. It ought to go on them at this stage. He pointed out punishment would be possible nor should proceed to practical reform. would any obvious reform bein-And the reform indicated by the like this for years unless it gets that it would not be possible to ge dicated. Such inquiries may gratify latest scandal is that the Foreign over in transit between the in for such elaborate undertakings. Gate House and Covent Garden. in the Island as in the F.M.S. part- party suspioion and resentments, Office should be recruited, like the

"Jest" is every manager's hope.ly because Ceylon could not afford

Liberals alike; and these, thanks to that foreign political force which in not represented in electoral returns;; were able to use methods of a constitutionally unjustifiable kind

to toleruta thern rather than

Crease

Lord

evening course, dishes.

·

a widower. lives in a

tort bitterly.

the Civil Service-title and de-for the dialogue," said the star, the whole duty of a Civil Servant corations, freedom from the accid smiling wanly. to avoid using his official position ents that beret all commercial en-know what the dialogue means! 1 some 40 miles above Singapore, to serve his private interests. He tarprise, and an assured pession, know, of course, that I'm speaking where the Singapore Waterworks must also 80 order his private On the

other hand, there are,lines, but why?"

were erecting an elaborate dam to affairs as to allow no suspicion to especialy in the Foreign Office, "You said that it was a good play provide the port with an auxiliary arise that a trust has been abused very heavy entertainment expenses the first time you heard it," I re-water supply. or a confidence betrayed. It is the for which no allowance is made. It is true of the higher posts of the old story of Cæsar and his wife.

Civil Service, and especially in the Foreign Office, that the higher posts are scandalously underpaid.

"I said it might be," she says, That may be an unpopular view "If it comes to that, it might be in these days, but it is the real anything."

Leading Man' Optimistic.. operative and practical political moral of the francs scandal. No]. The leading man has hope, doubt there are men who would go "It is curious how well it went atquence malaria in that area was to all intents and purposes, obliterat-

The Zinovieff Letter.

Allenby's extraordinarily strong.

The British Delusion. That is not the state of affairs. Things have happened in Exypt)

To give this a flavour he adds which have put an end to the a little of the previous stock with general unwillingness of all parties 3-small quantity of any of the well to challenge the hostility of the known sauces, some celery, salt, and Residency. The most important of generally a lump of sugar. these things seems to have been the He gave a useful hint for those failure of the Residency to dia- who do not like using timed fruits. tinguish clearly between make- "I find them so much improved by believe and reality. A nuke-believe boiling," he said. "Turn out the pump is good for any purposes, syrup, wash the fruit and put it in but not for that of drawing water. a pan with a couple of tablespoon-clusive answer that even Our polite and proper acceptance of futu of brown Bugar for Egyptian Premiers tolerated ad hoc minutes.""

by their countrymen WAS like!

"Best Butter" Cooking. Galileo's public admission that the A well-known artist, who prefers sun, moved round the world., to do his own cooking, thinks that Galileo, however, even in the his successful cookery is largely due moment of making that formal ad- to what many would call extrava- mission privately reminded himself gance. that in truth the world moved 'He always uses the best freih

in the do

The star meets my reproachful eyes brazenly.

"At first," he said, "it was well- nigh impossible to recruit labour. Malaria was extremely bad and the death rate high. Experiments were made-admittedly involving a large amount of expenditure-and subsoil pipes were laid down at giver depths. The seepage was drained away, and as

weed,

We

a conse

but can only lead to a blank wall.. Treasury, by open competition, It is the most amazing insurance. the expense, and partly because the

A Question of Standards. that the financial qualification|

the

from

so wise. We have not only re- "you eat it anyway, so why not in fixes some measure of blame

on posts in the service should be cognised a shum shifting of the your cooking?" He also excels at ourselves who have not been punish- | revised.-"Sunday Times." centro of the Egyptian political omelets., His favourite way of cooked and have it in our

puwer to solar system, but have proceeded to ing a young chicken or a pheasant amend the fault? Does not actions that were based on the as-j is to cut it up and stew it in a rule which prevents anyone sumption that the sham shifting casserole, with mushrooms and a ontering the higher order of service HONG KONG HEIGHTS WAS $ real one. This has been little milk and cream, and just be- at the Foreign Office unless he has enough to startle the Egyptians fore dishing up to add a glass of private means and sufficient social into giving us

For the information of visitors 211 unmistakable sherry.

Influence to secure a nomination the following list of some of the intimation that the game of make- His favourite sweet is cream believe is at an end. Nor is this whipped up and mixed with a little put us in the wrong? If the State highest points on the Island and

Insists on man having private Mainland is published:- altogether regrettable, It is de- fruit syrup and served in small means to put into the partnership sirable that Anglo-Egyptian differ-glasses with chopped cherries on ences and causes of friction should the top,-"Evening Standard." sooner or later be settled on terms couelstent with our own promises

Is there not another direction of should be abolished, and that the You can put on any play you like, malarial problem in the Island is round the sun. We have not been butter for cooking, because, he says, inquiry, more profitable because it scale of salaries for the highest and if the critics get up and hoot not quite so grave as it has been

you go to the nearest telephone and in the F.M.S. 'say: "Hello! In that Jest'? You

Prevention Not Cure, can have our theatre next week." "Our foremost aim," said Mr. General Uncertainty. Dyer, "must be prevention, not What annoys the people who run cure, and it is upon that that we The speaker "Jest" is when there are two flops are concentrating." a week. "Jest"? likes to oblige pold out that a very large pro- portion of natives who suffered (and everybody, but it refuses rightly) to play two houses a night, from malaria refused to put them- "Yes," said the manager, "we selves in skilled hands, so that can always get 'Jest."" He sighed however perfect a cure might be, it would be of little use to this cheerfully.

particular class. Hence the neces We dont know what's the matter sity for prevention, and the tre with this play of mine. So long asmendous value of 'the work which

of the service, is it quite logical. In exacting the same standards of conduct as in other departments where the Civil Servant is asked to and with Egyptian aspirations than with Sarwat Fasha, but, at bring nothing but

his brains, These things do not conflict. But least, if we do

come to an agree health, and good character to his it is by no

means desirable that ment it will be better worth having. work? May not the Foreign Office those differences should receive a

Whether we shall come soon to clerk say, "You pay me a salary in- quasi-settlement by virtue of an such an

agreement is extremely sufficient for the expenses of my position, otherwise you would not

agreement consonant neither with doubtful., Desirable as we

may

our promiaca nor with Egyptian think a settlement of the reserved insist on my having private means. aspirations and negotiated with points, it may be doubted whether Premier whose signature his coun-it is very urgently wanted by the try (or the politicians who ropre Egyptians. An agreement that did seat or misrepresent it) are not

not satisfy. Egyptian aspirations prepared to back.

would expose even Its best- We attempted to come to an authorised signatories to political agreement with Sarwat Pasha. attacks difficult to parry. "On the The negotiations that prepared that other hand, our political weight in agreement were carried от in Egypt is so great that an agree secret. If they had been carried on ment that satisfled the Egyptians in publle they would have had the by drastic reduction of that weight same result, only a little sooner,

would have an effect. like that of replacing the amenable Sarwat by the removal of a planet from the the less amenable Nahas. We have solar system. It would have disf been given yet another illustration turbing consequences which perhaps of an old truth that it is better to no Egyptian party, not even the deal with a man who can but will Wafd, is prepared immediately to not "deliver the goods" than with face.

a man who is willing to deliver Nahas Pasha is not likely to be them but has not got them to de- in a hurry in his dealings with ourselves. He is faced by a more urgent task. The Wafd is not what

liver.

The Outlook With Nahas,,

We seem to be back again in a it was. Egypt's last experience of position not so good as that which purely Wafdist rule Was

not a Lord Allenby left, though not so happy ore,, and Nahas Pasha's first, bad as that morass of hatred and task. will be to wipe out some of misunderstanding from which his the memories left by the last Ward- conduct of our Egyptian policy at Premiership in the minds of the happily extricated us. The re-other parties. If he can do that" served points are still unsettled, he will be better able not only thần and we have exasperated such Sarwat but even than Zagħlul to Egyptian public opinion as exists assure those with whom eventually by an attempt to get the settlement he may negotiate that in signing. of them behind the back of the an agreement he is not also signing ation. It will be harder to come their Girmation" that “ makes: the

n agreement with Nahas Panha l'agreement waste paper.

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An

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