THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1910. THE EGYPTIAN UNREST.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10038, 7 May 1910, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1910. THE EGYPTIAN UNREST.

The parallelism between the unrest in India and in Egypt is guite remarkable. Numerous authorities, including Sir Andrew Praser, lately Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, have pointed to the native press of India as the principal inciting cause of Indian seditious feeling. And now "The Times" attributes the srowing .turbulence of the Egyptian Nationalists to the unbridled and increasing license of the native press. Sir Andrew Fraser called upon the Government of India to exercise its powers more drastically against the seditious vernacular press, and "The Times" pleads similarly that the Government of the Khedive should take similar action in Egypt. A further cause of the unrest in Egypt is said to be the existence of the growing class of educated natives, who cannot all be absorbed in the public service, and

whose energies are accordingly diverted into mischievous channels. Exactly the same phenomenon has been noted in India by many observers, including the Maharajah of

Bhurtporte. The policy of educating a prolific subject race in the doctrines of political freedom promulgated by John Stuart Mill has had

its inevitable result; both in India, where it was originated by Macsuley, and in Egypt, where it has been imitated. It is to be borne in mind, however, that the educated classes, both in Egypt and India, form only an infinitesimal percentage, as yet, of the whole population of those counties. But every year that passes must find the Nationalist movement in India and in Egypt growing stronger with the perceptible increase of those Indians and Egyptians who have imbibed the intoxicating doctrines of a political freedom utterly foreign to their wnole history and traditions. And at the name time it would appear that neither the Government of India nor the Khedive's Government is prepared to take strong measures against the

malcontents. Such a position tends naturally to become worse instead of better Sir Eldon Gorst, who succeeded Lord Cromer as the British Agent ?t Cairo, ha 3 a thorny problem to handle, but one point may be made with confidence, and that is that any sign nf irresolution on his part or on the part of the Khedive's Govern-

ment which he advises is sure tu lead to an accentuation ot the unrest The murderer of Bnutros Pasha, the Premier, has been left unpunished for several months, a fact which is sufficient of itself to account for an outburst of that kind of unrest which increases with the rapidity of a fire when it is left uncontrolled. The British occupation of Egypt is no loneer a matter of choice, but a matter of necessity. It is necessary in order to safeguard the route to India. One of the strongest grounds for apprehending an entanglement in Egypt is to be found in the reflection that a British embarrassment in Egypt would play directly into the hands of Great Britain's rivals on the Continent.