A CRISIS AVERTED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 December 1913, Page 5

A CRISIS AVERTED.

fi :kM)HENER AND THE KHEDIVE

'Tima* — 'Sydney Sun'- Special Cables. , ■ . (fieceived Dec 30j;8.5 aan.) , LONDONy Dec. 29. It is authoritatively stated that a grave Egyptian crisis was recently j averted by an overwhelming display < < of British force. Ktobhener; suspecting a. semiMoslem Order of improperly adWnJK%ing enormous trust funds, | anmmuoed his intention, of overtaking «nd them for their in- - tended I purposes. Moslem fanaticism* was instantly aroused by" the Nationalises, and the BShediTje iftggravated the danger by |oinmg!tth© reactionaries. The British Government placed the circumstances before the Sultan, of, who decided in. favour, of r Wd- Kitchener, issuing a Firman at . Constantinople td that effect. 'Sedition-mongers in the meantime were stirring up trouble and Lord Kitchener, acting promptly, hurried the Mediterranean fleet to Alexah- * dria, landing 3000 sailors. It was /■ announced officially that he solely, in-. *■" tended a visit to the Pyramids/ The trdops wefe marched through_,the A „ streets ofjCairo unarmed. '».,' 'The relations between Lord Kitch- ,' «ner and'the Khedive were seriously although the trouble,' apparently, has been permanently averted.

f mWSPAPER INTERPRETATIONS

(Received-Dec. 30, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 29. The newspapers, commenting on the fleet's sudden' recall to Malta from the manoeuvres on the 10th November, interpret it as an, indication that jta presence on • the l Egyptian coast Was then considered grpwingly urg- ' ent; but the announcement on the llfh that the ships -were to go ,tb Egypt on the 19th, the original date, is 'interpreted that the , crisis was then settled, the Sultanas signature merely I>eing deferred until the 20th.