The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1913. EGYPT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 58, 8 November 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1913. EGYPT.

When tho modern history of Britain is fairly written there will he no chapter in it more creditable than t hat u hich concerns her relations with the peoples of tilt" Nile during the past thirty years, is the opinion expressed by Mr Sidney Low in the "Fortnightly Review." He goes on to point out that the space of time indicated (thirty years) hrief enough in the lite of nations, almost covers Britain's military occupation of Egypt and our control of its affairs. .And within it ;i small mini''M' of British soldiers. civil officials, engineers, and edu-j i-.ilimiists, directed hy a great admin-. kstrative linancier, and a great sol-dier-statesman, have performed a work Hi" reform and reconstruction which' •annof easily be overpraised. What lie refers to as a "lucky blunder" save,! ; Kgypt from France and from tho j Pmks and placed England securely I • stride the short route (o India, while ; t eventually created a new Empire in; :hr Sudan and leaned that great area j 'rom anarchy and barbarism. It initiated the regeneration of Egypt, fin-: mcial, economic, political, .so that now,

while those who were young when the process began are not yet old, the country is more prosperous, more stable, more progressive, more honestly governed than ii has heen for centuries. Kurther, Mr Low says we are preparing the Egyptian people for selfgovernment ami self-realisation ;though not in our lime or lor long afterwards will the goal he reached. As to the men who led in the great work, Mr Low says: "The guiding and controlling spirits of the great adventure were two: Cromer, who redeemed the land from the clutches of its creditors ; and Kitchener, who saved it from the menace of barbarian invaders. The financial genius who made Egypt sellsustaining shares the chief honors of the enterprise with the supremely competent organise:' who remodelled her army and reconquered the Sudan, and

in the two concise annual reports in which Lord Kitchener gives an account! of his stewardship we can discover how far Egypt has gone on the road to stable nationhood since Major Kitchener, R.E., was commanding the Egyptian cavalry when Wolseley dragged his slow column up the Nile nine-iiiid-twenty years ago. Lord Kitchener has heen engaged in activities of all kinds '-during his strangely varied career, which began, it may/be remembered, with the peaceful and scholarly duty of assisting in the archaeological survey of Palestine.

Prom biblical antiquities to Omdnrman and Paardeberg and Pretoria and Simla and hack to Cairo, how long and stirring a march! In the course of it Lord Kitchener has found himself called upon more than once to con-

struct a constitution : though this is the first time that lie Ims had to create a Parliament. For that is what the reformed Egyptian Legislative Assembly is eventually destined to become."