EGYPT SAFE.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1919, Page 9

EGYPT SAFE.

NEWS BY THE ELLEXOA. ' ' According to those who arrived k«W from the Canal by the Kllenira—the ]ti of tlie Xew Zealand Mounted Kifltt come from abroad—matters were fait quiet in Egypt after the big lipil ,l''rom the sohiihrft' point of vie* j whole business was a "wash-out."' IS '"Gippos" certainly ran amok for ft n dajs, but they dM not '-.now the m or wherefore. Iu the main they wapk poor, ignorant lot, easily led or mlJtj A few of them had to be shot and SM of them flogged as an example to J others to simmer down, but there wmJ chance of them asserting any art horn and'it would probably b» the m for Egypt if they could - . While t| were out on the loosa the "fuppo " W up bits of the railway between C*| and Port Said, but it was not ven Ja before trains were running again w the raiders punished. When the Ellenga left Egvpt fm were only some half-dozen troop* U to clean up afl'Airs after the dcpurW of the Inst draft. Major General {.ln tor was still there, and made a li railway that was built between : 1 island (the <auij> at IstniHmi before"! troops embarked. It is of learn that t> •> light railwav f-at y built between tlie Canal, stnw ih» «jn Desert, and through Tale tine to .Ts| Baleni, has been replaced by n ]\**& weight permanent traok nW »1 now a regular through ->rv 'sj Cairo to Jerusalem.' It will W * ■'•s day for the Near East when t>" ;i is linked up with the Coii'i:,>i ""'• Bagdad-Basra line. &