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THE GOVERNOR

Egypt Loosens the

NHANKS to the Italian activi-

Ties in Abyssinia, Egypt has si last won terms of political independence from Great Britain which would have been unthink-

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heat no longer stilles the great city into silence.

Cairo Cameo

There are a million people

All communications intended for able only two years ago. Nearly always going to leave, it appeared, standard of drill and physical ap- publication should be addressed to every political fetter which up to but their courage always seemed pearance but at the lowest possible crowded beneath that wilderness the Editor, and be accompanied by now has made a mockery of its to fail them as the actual moment standard of equipment. It totals of roof-tops, and at sunset their the Writer's Name and Address independence has been struck off of leave-taking approached. They only about 12,000 men. It has no voices rise in a continuous mur- transport. mur from which you can pick out not necessarity for insertion, but in the new Anglo-Egyptian treaty. put off the dread moment and star- tanks, mostly

In the new era which the treaty ed a little longer. They have stay only four batteries of field artil the cries of women, the thumping at & gecrantes of good faith.

until now. Having gone to lery, and last Winter it had only of drums and shrill, quavering opens for Egypt its independence ed

snatches of Arab song, mingling will be subject to only que politi Egypt with the intention of stay a few machine guns.

This, in fact, has been directly with the barking of dogs, the cal curb: Hereafter its alliance ing a few weeks, they have re- with Britain will constitute a part maited for more than half a cen- responsible for the new Anglo- cracking of whips and the call of outstaying all Egyptian treaty. Whatever un- the kites wheeling in the cloudless of its fundamental law, acting as tury. They have a check on its foreign relations in their rivals. They have bought easiness the Italian crisis of last sky. The gleaming gray Nile, Hong Kong. Friday, Jan. 29, 1937. times of peace and giving British off the French, broken the Turk Autumn may have occasioned in studded with the palms and white military authorities the power of ish connection and proclaimed an Britain and Italy, it gave Egypt a palaces of its islands, sweeps a senior ally in time of war. This Eyptian Monroe Doctrine of their worse fright than it had had since through the centre of that incom

at parable view. Its whole course may be described as independence own. At last, the time for the long, the World War.

postponed leave-taking has been which the British poured rein- from Sakkara to the point of the on the Iraq model

.fixed upon. Sparred On by forcements into the country brought delta lies below you as in a map. There remains nothing but According to the treaty, the Bri- the desirability of composing An- back alarming memories of 1914 You can see the little fields of to accept the inevitable and retish Army is to evacuate Cairo joice, in the freest spirit, with and Alexandria and retire to the Sir Andrew Caldecott in his Suez Canal as soon as Egypt can preferment. The Secretary of build for it a

дет base Dear State for the Colonies has re- Ismailla. At the canal it is to re- plied to the Colony's appeal main for the purpose of defence against the loss of its Governor in co-operation with Egyptian in precisely the manner ex" | forces." All British officers pected, with a stress upon the in due time to leave the Egyptian responsibilities that will rest Army and police. For military upon His Excellency's shoulders purposes Egypt agrees to use only in Ceylon that brooks of no British advisers, but on its own further venture into discus-terras. For other purposes Bri- tish advisers are to be "generally

sion.

The Colony has paid its preferred." tribute and has done its best!

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and of the seven years of British cultivated green which border it martial law which ensued-an ex- on its way through the yellow perience which Egypt has never desert. Here and there a lateen wanted to repeat. Once this sail, hovering motionless on the fright get hold of Egyptians, it broad still river, catches the sun- was pretty certain that they would set light and glows with scarlet take a share in their own defence colour for a moment.

· Away of by building up their army into to the west, the mighty pyramids something more than the decora- look.their full height and distance. tive force to which the British had All over the city, domes and min- restricted it. "After what's hap- arets catch the last rays in their pened now, how are you going to fantastic tracery.

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stop them? the British. asked For Egypt the new treaty opens each other last Winter. And un- a new chapter in the fifty years glo-Egyptian differences in face of the new Italian rivalry in der all the circumstances nobody of its uneasy relations with Bri- the Mediterranean, the British quite knew what the answer was. tain. Beypt has gained much to serve its own interests. But John Bull & Cleopatra

have made their terms with Arabi's The answer now proves to be the from its anomalous rulers during new treaty, which authorises that period. The extravagance of it has to be recognised that the

On these terms the relations of successoTS.

Egypt to modernise its army. the Khedive Ismail soared to its tribute of the Colonial Office

climax on that November day in was a greater one from the John Bull and Cleopatra have

On Three Sides

1869 when the Empress Eugenie time when the appointment been regularised, after fifty years, Not Abrupt

The farewells, if such they may

of France, standing in the bows was made, and that tribute has by an alliance with partial inde- According to the

When the treaty is in full effect of her yacht, L'Aigle, was the first hardly been diminished by Mr. Pendence.

<ril flag is to be be called, are not to be ndaly

content Ormsby-Gore's

themsel- passenger to go through the new- to treaty the British reference

hauled down from Cairo's great abrupt. It has taken fourteen Britain reasons of high public policy Citadel when the British soldiers years to

agree on the terms of ves with enclosing Egypt on three ly completed Suez Canal. From On that moment Ismail slid rapidly removing all question of recon-

leave, and the green flag of Egypt, Egypt's independence as embodied sides-in the Mediterranean.

the Sudan. down into bankruptcy, and Egypt sideration of the decision.

with its, white crescent and stars, in the new treaty, and it will take the canal and in

eight years more to carry the though Egypt will have a voice in began to be taken over by an in- The situation, unhappy as it is to be hoisted in its place.

arez. ternational administration repre- may be for Hong Kong, how- So the crescent will return to whole of the treaty into effect regard to the last-named

the swarms of foreign who had ever reluctantly the Colony the Citadel of Saladin and Mo Barracks for 10,000 British troops From their base at Ismailis, they senting may make concession to the hammed Ali At the same time and 400 air pilots have to be built will command a series of strategic concession-hunters broader view of the Colonial the British garrisons are to march near Ismailis on the canal. New roads and railways specially built found an easy mark in Ismail. Office, is perhaps best express-out of the ugly red and yellow strategic roads and railways have to enable them to reach any part

to be laid down to give the troops of Egypt at the slightest suspicion Invisible Rule ed by the observation that a barracks by the Kasr-el-Nil bridge speedy access from the new base of an approaching attack from strange paradox would arise out of the Abbasia barracks on to any part of Egypt that may be without. British ships will con- It was on that dizzy descent were the Governor's unqualified the edge of the desert to

cămé the threatened by attack from with- tinue to carry Egyptian cotton to that Britain

in to put success to stand in the way of northeast of Cairo where Arabi out. The Egyptian Army has to the Liverpool market and Egyp down Arabi's revolt. The British his advancement.

himself surrendered to the Bri- be restored to its old fighting tian loans will continue to be float Consul in Cairo thas became the tish. Since that day the Cromers strength, so that in time of im- ed in London. Fascist Italy will only member of the consular and Kitcheners have got Egypt out minent menace of war or an ap- continue to gaze at the great port corps with an army of occupation of pawn to its European bond- prehended international emer- of Alexandria-with its British behind him. The result was that Tigers, it would seem, reholders and have made it im- geney" it will be useful under Bri- naval and air base--from the Li- he took over the international ad- verse the terms of the well-mensely wealthy. Everything in tish advice.

byan frontier and at the rich low- ministration alone. He and his known homily, and, in the the country has changed--every- Before the World War Bri- lands of the Sudan from the successors pulled Egypt out of midst of death take a lively thing except the clamour of the tain had no

trouble in bringing mountains of Ethiopia

bankruptcy and oppression and interest in molesting the vil-nationalists and the silence of the their future ally, the Egyptian sol- Inasmuch as the treaty's mili- made Cairo the Near Eastern mili- Lagers of Taiwaichuen.

dier, back to the form he had on tary provisions will take time to tary headquarters of Britain's There have been rumours for The British forces landed in the battlefields of the Sudan. be put into effect, John Bull still empire, and the Heliopolis air- several days of a malicious Egypt in 1882 to suppress the na- Since the war, their fear that he for awhile, may enjoy the view of drome the junction of trunk air mauling of two hapless inhabit-tionalism of Arabi's revolt. The would "go political" has brought Cairo from the Citadel walls. This lines to the Cape and Australia.

It has all been done by the ants of the New Territories, fact that they neglected to leave about a reversal in their attitude is best done at sunset, when the but for some, perhaps inexplic-when the revolt had been sup- toward him. Under a British in- light is not too blinding to take invisible rule of the British Con- able,

information pressed gave rise to a situation of spector general, the Egyptian the colour out of the flat roofs, the sal in his white palace by the high minarets, and the palms, and the Nile in Cairo. Outwardly Egypt has reached official quarters, considerable delicacy. They were Army has been kept at a

That Tiger

reason, no

the police stations, for example.

Policemen are, of course, notoriously matter of fact in- dividuals, cynical and sceptical,

both lacking in a sense of dramatic values, and having

Sphinx.

"FRANCE-1937'

remained 2 Turkish province until war came in 1914. Then it became 2 British protectorate until after the war. The "veiled protectorate" became an naveiled protectorate. Then in 1922 it be

ready expressed our sympathy Europe will end by reasonable new Germany, a new Russia, a new portunity to show the world that lations or special rights to for-

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become the rendez-Fetes de Paris, which co-ordinates

nothing of the picturesque, priHE year 1937 will be an impor- tions know less about each other's,change of views will take place in came an "independent” kingdom; even of a stripey flavour, in

tant one for France. The new real activities than they did be-France, and every Frenchman has but, peading agreement on the terms of its independence, British their make-up. One can well

year has begun with greater hopes fore wireless and modern methods the conviction that it is going to

troops have continued to gar- conceive, while deploring, and fewer misgivings and there of rapid information existed. For mean much for his country.

rison Cairo and Alexandria. sublime indifference among is a sort of intuition that practic-the first time, at the Exhibition,

France, by this year's Exhibi- The treaty provides for Egypt's them to any attempt, however ally the last country besides Eng-each of the great nations will be tion, will be the hostess of the entry into the League of Nations. worthy, to resurrect Mr. Tiger, and to possess a democratic re able to show what it has to con-world. This implies obligations, and But, of perhaps more practical who, with sincere lamentations, gime is on the way out of its tribute to the general welfare nothing will be spared to make importance, it promises Britain's was pronounced dead only a iculties. There is a feeling of mankind in the way of manufac- the welcome worthy of the great concurrence in Egypt's desire to week or two ago.

A occasion. It will also be an op- rid itself of the shackling capitu- For our part, we have al-greater optimism that the tension ture and invention and art

agreement and not trial by arms. Italy, a revived Poland, not to Paris has lost none of its lustre: eigners. Owing to the capitula- in the matter of the serious Needless to say, satisfaction is mention many smaller new states, and that it is still the "gay city" tions, the European quarter is a blow felt by intrepid adventur- ers along the hillpaths of the general at the cordial relations and will for the first time be reprend the city of light.

little labyrinth of States within of the complete understanding between sented in terms other than man-

a State, all of them ruled by their Territories by reason

power and guns. The Paris In-

Paris every year has a regular- consuls rather than by the Egyp- untimely demise of Kowloon's Great Britain and France.

The principal event for France ternational Exhibition of 1937 wy organised season of entertain- tian Government. far-famed tiger. Thus does the

ment, extending from April to spirit of venture die within the will be the great Paris Interna-be a stock-taking of the world's

tional Exhibition, to which fifty progress since 1900. human (and/or hiker's) breast.

July. The city possesses a special Egypt's Health nations have responded. Interna Earnest attempts to restore tonal politics have so obscured

Committee, the Commissariat des Paris will

Egyptians say that the aboli- that zest, that placid feeling of dering-do, should not be mis- the scene in recent years that. It is understood, but given appro- no exaggeration to say that na-vous of the world This is exem-all entertainments, and itself or tion of the fiscal capitulations and plified by one item alone: more ganises entertainment on a scale the taxation of foreigners on the priate credit as a public ser-

than 400 congresses will be held in impossible for individual organisa- same basis as Egyptians would vice.

used to be one hand for himself Paris during 1927. Scientific)tions to achieve. One of the most mean an added" revenge of $20,- Part of this and one for the ship. Now bodies throughout the world have wonderful spectacles in the world, 000,000 a year. except in a few rare instances agreed to hold their international the Miracle Play of the Passion, would be absorbed by the expand- More of it, the old pride in the ship has congresses this year in Paris, a re-with Notre Dame as a background, ed Egyptian Army. After nearly three months, gone, and for the old adage the cognition of the place. France is played before 10,000 spectators Egyptians say, would be devoted in San Francisco and sailor is substituting a new holds in the Intellectual life of the at each performance. This spec, to the social betterment for which other American ports are still one "One hand for myself world. Not only will men of tacle will be given again in the the great Zaghlul Pasha fought to discussing the Rights of Man and one for my mates."

science hold their congresses in coming year. The opening of the the end of his life.

After a half century of Bri- and refusing to work. Wr

With changed ideas have Paris, but architects and town-great International Exhibition will What is perhaps most inter- come changes in habits. He planners will meet and confer as be heralded by a gigantic proces- tish rule, Egypt still has one of esting in the strike is the vivid still smokes--cigarettes, rather to the towns of the future. Sur-sion such as has not been seen the most illiterate populations contrast between the old-time than a pipe; he no longer wears gems and physicians, chemists since the magnificent symbolic pre- and one of the highest death- tar and the merchant seamana beard or flowing moustache; and biologists will gather together cessions of the days of the Revolu- rates in the world. About 180,000 of to-day. "Jack Ter, last of the he is tattooed, but not so ful- and disepas greater safety and the tion. In its desira this year to Egyptians now become table to rugged individualists appears somely or so ubiquitously. He promise of longer, healthier lives givits guests a welcome, Paris is military service annually

ancient custom ob- this nuan only7-about: 3.500-are- now to, he suffering from the is educated. He can sign his Railway men, representatives of to revive an growing pains of an awakening own articles. Only in two air services, heads of shipping served at the coronation of its actually ac

Orde ways does he respect tradition; lines "will" discuss travel in all its kings

tain a number of significant social consciousness.

In the days of canvas and of the likes his Bquor, and he likes aspects. Industry and art, masi howling passages around old it neat, and be has his girl in and the theatre, wil meet in con-

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