Home Rule for Egypt.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 110, 13 May 1904, Page 4

Home Rule for Egypt.

KHEDIVE'S INTEREST IN AN ORGANISED AGITATION. At the present moment Egypt is passing through an acute political crisis owing to an organised agitation in favour of an Egyptian Farlinpiapt, - an old idea once vaguely supported by Lord Dufferin. Sheikh Uli Yussuf, editor and proprietor of the Mouayad, the most widely read and influential paper in <he East, an intimate friend and councillor of the Khedive, and- a man ot keen intelligence with unbounded influence on the Egyptian people, recently proposed at a meeting of the » General Assembly that the Government be requested to form an Egy|>tian Parliament on the main lines of the French Chamber of Deputies. Alter he had explained his scheme at leng?h, the majority of the members adopted his viewH and voted in favour of approaching the Government on the subject. The Assembly, it may be stated, is a deliberative body, which meets every two years. The Government is not bound by its views. Two other public men have joined tho movement, the editor of the Uwa, newspaper and another friend of the Khedive, a past master in the art of intrigue. These three men a "f, hostile to each oth^r, and: the fact that the only bond of srartimrait between them is their with the Khedive gives ention Egyptlans cau se for rcflec-

flt!ir r L EgJ £ ti f 1 wishes for the cred^es it tt ,!l rUalnertt ' but »o one " dtr auspices. The JS not particularly popular withTh PUbl '. C opinion identifies him with the agitation the matter is treated as a personal one and inspires coldness and distrust.