EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2074, 8 May 1907, Page 1

EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS.

Press Association. —Copyright. QAIRO, May C. There was a remarkable demonstration at Cairo in connection with the departure of Lord Cromer. Twelve hundred people, including high British and Egyptian officials, assembled at the Opera House to bid him farewell and thank him for his services. Lord Cromer, in an energetic speech, reviewed the past-, and eulogised the work of Tewfik Pasha, Nilbar Pasha, Riaz Pasha, and Fehmy Pasha, and other reformers, Sir William Garstin, Sir Reginald Wingate, and his other collegues. He declared that liis two objects had been the restoration of a good understanding with France, and the introduction of a liberal spirit into the system of government, which necessarily was bureaucratic. He warned Egyptians against the Nationalists,and expressed a hope that the Khedive would suppress any scandals connected with the administration of the wakus or religious trusts; would reform the Mahommeflan tribunals, and ignore flatterers and ovil counsellors, and encourage i honest reformers. He would thus ; earn tlio gratitude of every class. 1 He emphasised the fact that the British occupation of Egypt would ■ continue for'an indefinite , period. ■ Britain during the continuation of l the occupation would he responsible i for the main principles of adininisi trutiou. Jfoue was more capable of

safeguarding its continuance than Sir Eldon Gorst. Lord Cromer nddod: “The newspapers, European and local, have expressed the hope that ho will follow my policy, which has boon to tell the truth. Ho will follow it.” LONDON, May 0. The Times says Lord Cromer’s Cairo speech produced as profound an impresion upon the public as his resignation had done, and would go far to restore confidence.