DENSHAWI INCIDENT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 24, 23 October 1907, Page 7

DENSHAWI INCIDENT.

r ' '■ ■■■•■;;' the j i'ris6ners.';' v '\"'; ; : ' '. - \PJiTITiON : <FOR THEIR RELEASE.- , ; .1 DT. : TBLEGRAPH—MESS ASSOCIATION—COrTRIGHT 1 ' ■'''' : . ■'•'• '■'■ '■': >' v! ' London,' Obtbbor 21'. : Sir-Edward .Grey,' 'Secretary' of 'State.'fo ,' foreign' Affairs',' in" reply to a memorial sighei by Lord 1 Coloridge (Liberal),' Lord Cburtno; ;' '(Unionist), and Dr. , Clifford, tho eminen '.Nonconformist divine," appealing for : thi . ; pronipt release : of' the -Egyptians* concerns ; .inrtho'i'assault on , (British ofßcors Jat Don .' ishawi, .'said ho could , not at : present add , t< ■• :his' reoent'.statbmont 'in: Parliament-on tin : jsUbjectV';:>... : l ; ;.- : : ; ; .;,.,, ,;.l. 1; ;; .;-,j,,. : ■ •-; i Jn June; last ..year, an . attack-, .on .ißritish .officers was. made, by some-villagers at Donjfihaivi, near Tanta'.' Captain' S.'.-C Bull'irat ikilled .arid others. , were'-iiijurcd. ■-. An ihquirj ■ ipllowed, and a i number of. natives .wore tried : ;by'a special tribunal, which condemned fouroi , itne ringleaders to. death,-and passed sentences of. penal 'servitude; and imprisonment on others, jSif Edward .Grey, Miuistor for Foreign Af:fairs,- referring to the subject'!iir the House [of * Commons ■ a ■■ few days af tenvardsj said ■ that Jα, fanaticaj : fooling , had ■ been ..on : the increase lihi Egypt .'and' -in North" Africa ' during ■';hc iyiiarJ-"He said'deliberately, with !a full sense ;ofVrespp.nsib.ilityin'thftt; jfi,,fehe, ißqupe pj,.,Commpns aid"anything at.that moment to weaken [or destroy 'tlie' , ftutHo'rity." of the' Government ■in Egyptyfhey,;would : be-'fac(s- .to 'faco with'» [very Bcriojis situation.- The speech' referred ;tb • in', tho 'cabl(jgra'in'; jiyas %iriade "by-'.'Sir , iGrey.on'Auglist.l-lastv.'wlieu iMrV ( Hugli Law i(Nationalist),.,condemned the. severity of the ■pnnishmerits. ; Sir Edward, Grey regretted that ;there ivas'. a'tendency- to; take' what had oc!.curred. excoptioually.;,at that, particular time as, typical of the .things that took place under British administration. As to the long terms ;of,, imprisonment that were passed, ho felt that,'"when : 'clemency would ; hot' bo mistaken for weakness, an act of. clemency .'would; bo 1 in iaccord^.both,with :justico. and good 1 policy..