KAMIL PASHA DEAD.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 120, 13 February 1908, Page 7

KAMIL PASHA DEAD.

! -» NO SUCCESSOR. , HEAD OF EpYPTIAN NATIONALISM. BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Cairo, Fobruary 11. ■ Tho death is announced of Mustapha Kamil ' Pasha, leader'of tho Egyptian Nationalists. Ho. leaves no succossor to tho leadership.' : DEMAND FOR EVACUATION.Mustapha Kamil (or luamil) Pasha-was the loading light of Egyptian Nationalism. In ■ September (ast ho addressed au appeal to the British Prime Minister, in the course of which . ho wrote:-- ■ ■ .., .. . - ■r "Few Englishmen give thought to-day to the . promises made by that Government, of . . . Queen Victoria, or to tho. many .speeches made .by her Ministers, nvho declared -that the continued occupation of- Egypt by 'England would -be -shameful • for., the •' British; : Throno , and the British Empire. , ':But we Egyptians have not forgotten them, , and, in • spite of " those ; who ''affirm that politics - are. but- lying r and cheating, wo cannot..'-.believe-, v ' thata: great nation will continue' to soil its history ;. by ■a, nameless spoliation. • If : tho history, aro .insufficient:, to/,prove "'■ .' 'I-;to 'British Irm>erialists 'that Egypt "can, belong ; l .- ; ', ;r only to':'thel Egyptians, - the awakening ;of; the Egyptian; nationi should show them that-the i futureof .Egypt lies with : liberty and pendence." . .. -' ... -The Pasha- declares thai misfortunes .only - . sorvo to/strengthen tho patriotism of tho > ' Egyptians, Denshawi did more for the dovelqpment. of;..Natioriaii'sm.. than.,- the.-.;. greatest : efforts of Egyptian patriols have ever done. "The problem before you, sir," he adds, "and ' .'; .i'-beforo'. tho British-nation', is '.whether 'England "-desires; to'.: make I,a.- friend-or .an .enemy .of Egypt. If England considered . evacuation ': possible.' in 1890, 'arid 'had oven fixed the date for* it 1 >in : the Prummond-Wolf? Convention, how>,cau> she .maintain ..that,.it is impossible , to-day P.; What:, English. Liberal, can .seriously' . '-conte'nd .'that the. 'hour ;for - the -evacuation ' has' not> vet struck, when Gladstone .re- . cognised;';;in,';the' -letters " which ho. wrote '• ' > me'-'in that tlie -hour- of : 'evacuation- hadr\ . struck several.years ago? " You have yourself declared in one of jour speeches Vthat' .eveD/o ' good Government can ■'' - never.'.- replace ':-self-government... r.l.'say .;; ;■ : .where 'a. people. is., conscious -of its rights noth-. ." v. ing-will .make it forget its independence,.and .; :i ':'ar.foroigh' Govprriment,, 'e'ven though l it be a - ; . .!' model- of''-benignity, -. is always .hated: • and -\ execrated.:, A nation, like ours ..which through tho centuries has- accumulated forces of 'patieheo'i'ahd '. energy .''does- not know despair, • - and' will not' bo' hindered': by.any/obstacle in ~ the/wort ,of ; reconquering,. its independence. It 'remains .'for - a .Liberal England 'to decide ■' whether" tjiat; independence shall bo -realised consent.";' ■ 1 - r:ThaVappcnl.which is quoted above, was published by Mustapha Ifamil m tho Tans press, " arid, though it 1 was addressed. nominally to '■ ■ thj British: Premier, it -was. probably intended .. ■ • .'aifa -t'est of,' Frenc- opinion. ■'• London papers :■ :■ rtiioiccd;that :ou> this occasion -the: Paris press didrno't, -as" in"; jiast,'..receive . the appeal '■ • wi.th-Venhtu'siasm. - "fl'he--reception of Ivamil s; • letter - by;-.'the; JParls.'•press," .wrote, the - Stan : should act. as a devi'r. > ci.ded'booler.'on .the .ardour., of ■;Egyptian".agita-. ' - I- ;t(,r's-"''vln'''Egypt-.the-, Nationalist ..party, is ' : 'v ' J d;jp6sed: by|;the:Egyptian Liberal, party,;.which, ' - f v'• V a':'itt^' at /a' progressive pVogramme ; consistent "•' i'.'with" f nerid'ship' to : 'the ; . British •.'administration, Liberals".-seek 1 ediica-'-tional refoim, cultivation of 'the -language of the ■ countrv,. and -the removal - of native 1 pre-]udice*'to-f 'European sanitary.,and administra- ' ,tive>" methods. -- They i also seek to, ,educate the. ■ • people up to - 1 representative, government. : ; : ';.51n.,a i proclamation' last. year, the Liberals ilcclared':.'"lriasmuch'ias,there -are-threo person's, named 'Mustapha':lCaniil,' Ali Yiissef, and • Hafez'"Awad; /going; ; about -Europe delivering spe'eches'.and- getyng'fcertain European -.news--papers''to.:publish what they -wish,', and: com-, British memoers. of; " Parliamentv f pretending j'..that -■'. thoy,',representi- tho"Egyptian vpeople.:,and . voice their , wants , . andiiaspirationa, we. feel it , our . duty ,to ;de- . ' Clare that-these.,three persons do.not by any : ',rieah's; represent', tho ,Egyptian, people,; but ■ are' ihree 'journalists J ofr a certain';class'whose ob- '■ ject is'.■self-advertisement, ' and 1 who act •as '-. •rthey r do to : !'serve - and-'satisfy" their.''own ; per"sonal interests; 1 and who; are led in various 'ways tfrdm'.-certain ambitions ' .'Are ~incompatible:!,ivith-i justice-! r and with', the . /clfafe .of the Egyptian .people." The. same r;i/''.'!; : of Btirnng l up the .people'against foieigners, and - against Egyptians .who fire 'friendly, to,:foreign- ' ers, "'-'under tho , ,veil -.of *;Pan-Islamisin,. and Mtriotism.'' '. ; -r