AFFAIRS IN EGYPT.

Taihape Daily Times, 20 September 1919, Page 3

AFFAIRS IN EGYPT.

POSITION NOW SAFE. The New Zealand Mounted Rifles just back by the Ellenga, report that matters are fairly quiet in Egypt. From the soldiers’ point of View the whole business was a “wash—out.’.’ The Gippos certainly ran amok for a few days, but they did not know the why or the Wherefore. In the In3.in, they were a poor ignorant lot, easily led or misled. A few of them had to be shot. and some flogged, as an example to the others to simmer down, «but there was no chance of them asserting; any authority; and it would probably be the worst day for Egypt if they could_ While they were out on the loose, the Gippos tore up bits of the railway between Cairo and Port Said, but it \\'%J.s not very long before trains were running again, and the raiders punished. When the Ellenga left Egypt, there were only some lmlf-dozen or so New Ze::la11<l troops left to clean up affairs latter the departm-e of the last draft. 3"T4zl.iol‘~Gellez-31 Chaytor was still there Eand made a light railway that was built between the island (the camp at ilsmailia.) before the troops embarked. lit of interest to learn that during ;the- last. two years the light railway jtliet was built. between the Canal. lecross the Sinai Desert, and through _P"lestinc- to .Tel-usalem, has been rehnlzzcexl by a lie-avy—r.*eight permanent treck. and there is now a. regular ”11‘011.9.‘h ;~'D2'VI("C from Cairo to .Tel‘us!3 leni. It will be a great day for the .\'*ear’ East wlwii this line is linked in» \‘."ii'll the Con.<ta:ltin<~.nle-Tiagdad-Basr-1 line. ’