EGYPTIAN CONSPIRACY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1484, 5 July 1912, Page 5

EGYPTIAN CONSPIRACY.

MORE ARRESTS MADE. ' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Eec. July i, 11.25 p.m.) Cairo, July I. The police havo raided various place?, including the Nationalist newspaper offices, and havo seized many documents bearing ou tho plot against the Khedive, Lord Kitchener, and the Premier. Tho plot is regarded as very serious. Two further arrests have been made, bringing the total to five. The prisoners are named AYahed and Arabi, and are notorious Nationalists connected with the "Alleva" and other newspapers. 1 LORD KITCHENER'S REPORT. In his first annual report as British Resident in Egypt, issued at tho end of May, Lord Kitchener said:—"l am glad to bo able to report that political feeling in other respects has lately been much calmer, and that tho consideration of practical reforms for the good of tho country has apparently bocoma moro intereiting to tho majority of the pcoplo than discussions on abstruse political questions which aro unlikely to lead to anv useful result." On his return after a long absence, Lord Kitchener. has been forcibly struck by the fact that the formerly homogeneous body of intelligent Mohammedan inhabitants who constituted a collective community based on fixed-.social laws is now split up and divided into parties and factions of a political character. "AVhatever Hie value of a party system may bo in Western political life, it is evident that its application to an intensely democratic community, tho essential basis of whoso social system is the brotherhood of man, combined with respect for learning and the experience of agi\ is an unnatural proceeding, fraught with inevitable division and weakness.

"The development and elevation of tho character of a pfoplo depends mainly on the growth of eelf-control and the power to dominate natural impulses, as well as on the practice of unobtrusive self-reli-ance anil perseycrencc, combined with reasoned determination. None of these elements of advance arc assisted in any way bv party strife. Calm and woll-con-ndcred interest in political affairs is good for both tho governed and thofo who rule, but fictitious interest, eonerally linked on misrepresentation and maintained by.party funds and party tactics, doe' nothing to elevate or develop tho intelligent rhnraotor of an Oriental nice"

In tho early part of Kill foiho excitenit'iit prevailed amongst tho Coptic enmmunity, and tho excellent relations that had fxistod for so lons between them and the Mohammedans vera strained. It was a regrettable situation, duo in a great inen-'lire to misunderstandings which havo now disappeared, and an era of peace and concord has now been established which it is hoped will prove lasting.