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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JUNE 1, 1919. 7 ; EGYPT UHBUFFLEH Army Efficiency Quickly Gets Upper Hand of Rebellion. AUSTRALIANS PATROL CAIRO Nationwide rprlslng, With. Slaugh ter, Looting and Atrocities, Han ' died In Business-Like Manner. '(Copyrig-ht, Canada, by the New York Her ald Company.) (Copyright. 1019. by the New York Heral,d Company All rights reserved.) BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS. CAIRO. Insurrection does not inter fere with tea. In outward seeming the normal life of the British goes on un disturbed by revolution and restriction. Egypt is in the throes of its greatest revolt against authority, yet the plac idity of the British demeanor and rou tine appears scarcely to be disturbed. One of the most interesting phases of the grave crisis through which the coun try is now passing is the manner in which the British carry on. There are no hectic hurrylngs to and fro, no ex cited knots of alarmed men and women discussing the latest tales or uprising, burnings, slaughter and siege. Officers in the hotel lobbies do not rise from their whisky and soda of an afternoon to look at the latest official com munique as it is posted. Afternoon tea at the homes is not devoted to talk of the troubles. The preacher on Sunday does not mention the revolution. Young officers and nurses, or "sisters," as ia the beautiful British name for them, out at the citadel play tennis as usual, regardless of the heavy influx of the wounded and prisoners. In a younger nation of different tem perament this attitude would seem a. pose, but the British have had rather an extended experience of responsibili ties and risings, and, besides, the war has taught them calm in stress, and to regard danger and death as part of the day's work. Even the barbarous mang ling of seven unarmed railway pas sengers into such unrecognizable masses of flesh that there is not even a shred of uniform or badge of rank to de termine whether they were officers or men does not get a scare head in the local dailies. This poise spells power and reassurance. It is the conscious ness of ability to meet any emergency. Life Amid Insurrection. True, there are signs of the times in which Egypt is living just now. Of ficers wear pistols and soldiers carry rifles and travel In squads. Armed patrols traverse the street, afoot and mounted. Ford trucks carry'ng ma chine guns and their crews make the rounds. An occasional armored auto mobile may be met. Native bazaars are "out of bounds" to Europeans and soldiers. At squares and strategic cor ners in the old city, detachments of soldiers are encamped. Bridgeheads at the Nile have barbed wire entangle ments ready for emergencies. Hello squads keep watch on the citadel tower. Native policemen have lost their former leisureliness. Some shop windows, even on the principal streets, are boarded up. either as a precaution or because they were broken during earlier demonstra tions. The airplanes that whirr above the city carry machine guns and bombs. What excitement there would be in any American city over even a tithe of these warlike signs! Everybody knows that out in the country, to the uttermost borders of Egypt, there are under way either con tinued attacks upon foreigners or gov ernment property, or else a process of pacification that is little different from war. Refugees arrive daily from the in terior, with tales of fighting, sieges and escapes. Even in Cairo itself a well known business man was assassinated while sitting at his own dinner table. Native officials as well as foreigners receive threats of death if they refuse to obey the behests of the agitators. It is fear of personal injury that keeps men from entering a new cabinet. The country has been without a cabinet for a month and the prospects are poor for the formation of one. Literal "black hand" warnings are ingeniously cir culated and industriously suppressed. Leison Taught Pharoah. Without public announcement, and as quietly as though it were all a matter of practice maneuvers, arranged many months ago, columns are passing out of the city and towns. Some go by boat; many travel afoot and by horse. It is these latter that Cairenes see. They range in size from a few score men to a thousand or two. Many are Indian; others are English, Scotch and Austra lian. Scores of expeditions are at this moment en route throughout Egypt to deal with rioters and Bedouin. Some of them go forth to real war. Pharaoh chose an inopportune mo ment to make insurrection. Great Brit ain has more troops in Egypt now than were ever before here in all the mod ern history of the land. This is not because the Insurrection was expected. for it was not. The magnitude and concertedness of the outbreak took the authorities by surprise. But certain units from Palestine were here to be demobilized. Five shiploads of Aus trallans were ready to sail when the hlow fell, the horses and weapons and equipment having all been turned in and redistributed. In two days these men were mounted, armed and equip ped and on the job teaching Pharaoh a lesson. Nobody feels more bitter over the Egyptian revolution than these Australian soldiers, whose feet were almost on the gangplanks of the great steamers that were to bear them home after four and a half years of war. Alongside of what is going on here today the American expedition into Mexico was a mere incident; yet it filled the newspapers of the land and received as much attention from the British press as is being given this campaign. 1'ftls army of pacifica tion, which has sprung up and spread over the land as if by magic is possible only as an aftermath of the great war. It is no amateur staff that Is handling the situation. Of the mili tary outcome there is no uncertainty as disturbed the world during earlier x-gyptian and Sudanese campaigns. Man With the Hoe on Rampage. Traveling outside of the city the land looks as peaceful and busy as ever. The fellah and his family are busy with their crops, aided by camel, donkey, buffalo, goat, sheep and horse. An evening drive to the pyramids re veals idyllio pastoral and agricultural ccenes, if one disregards the military en route. Can it be possible that these long-oppressed peasants, scarcely out irom unaer tne terrioie lash or rhi noceros hide, are the same as the veil Ing savages who, within a fortnight, have torn up all the railways of Egypt, demolished the telegraph eystem, de etroyed railway stations and trains, and banks and schools: blown up the Dig wireless station, killed British sol. diera. besieged foreigners and in gen , ral given an imitation of Teutonic ! Tfurkish ferocity? Vhat has wrought the miracle? Sir William Willocks. the eminent Irrita tion engineer, who has lived in Egypt . xor a generation and who is perhaps the most unsparing critic of what he An Auto Lunch Kit is just as much a part of your car as oil to the en gine makes the "wheels turn easier." There's no comfort in a mixed cargo of eatables and utensils rattling about the tonneau. Our Lunch Kits 'Are Complete in Every Detail Light Strong Handsome Durable The pleasure of an outing is multiplied by one of these essential parts of a day, week or month awheel. 20 styles adapted for parties of 2 to 7 people. Let Us Show You, or write you, if more convenient. Woodard, Clarke & Co. country's administration of this trust. told me that it is the fellaheen s ex perience in the army labor corps that has fitted them to play this new and violent role. The farmers have learned how to work together, under discipline j and In the face of fire. They have got over being afraid of guns. In British 1 service, they were made ready to revolt against Britain, even though most or their supposed -wrongs were due to their own village headmen and Egyp tian notables. Of a sudden the long-submerged fellah has shown himself willing and able to fight for what he deems his abstract political rights. Granting that he has been misled by the radical agitators from the schools, his capa city to grasp the new ideals of na tionalism and to act on a signal ana in concert, is a phenomenon of first importance.' That same serf whose portrait is so often found on the ancient monuments, bent beneath the lash, has learned to lift up his head and his hand. "Gyppy" Hates the Greek. Several Australian officers, whose de mobilization was spoiled by the out break, were discussing the native and his qualities. "Gyppy needs a strong hand. We have been too easy with him." (The democratio fraternization of the Australian soldiers with the Egyptians has often been a cause of criticism by the British.) "The Greeks know how to handle him. They show him no mercy. They hit him and kick him all over the place. Gyppy hates the Greeks, but he stands around for them. Our mistake has been that we have treated him like a human being, and he does not respect us for it." There you have a problem more pressing than the mystery of the Sphinx or the Pyramids. How should the Egyptians be treated? No Britisher, soldier or civilian, is allowed to hit a native. Still, one basic cause of the present disaffection, the nationalists say, is that the British treat the Egyp tians as if they were the dirt under a master's feet. Bad manners, rather than injustice or oppression, seems to be the most serious charge that can be laid against the door of the domi nant people. The subordinate British official and this is by no means peculiar to the British has a genius for beng snobbish and disagreeable. In the eyes of an Oriental impoliteness is more of a sin than dishonesty. As to the Australian's opinion that the Greeks handle the Egyptian best, one has only to read the extravagant wailings in the local Greek press. Evidently a first object of attack in every one of the hundreds of outbreaks of the last two weeks has been the Greek merchant and the Greek place of business. Under cover of the general rioting. Innumerable personal scores are being settled. At the present mo ment the high hand has not paid. No American has been hurt despite the madness and unreason, because the American missionaries scattered over the land have treated the natives as men and brethren. One American Bloodthirsty. In the matter of how the native should be treated, we have our finger on the crux of the Egyptian question and of the whole oriental question. Foreign misconduct caused the Boxer rebellion. British inconsiderateness is a primary factor in the present Egyp tian insurrection. I am bound to say, though, that up to this writing I rail to find among the British here the spirit of disdain to ward the native and ruthlessness in the treatment of him which once marked the white man in the east. The war has produced a more democratic and tact ful type of British officer. The commander-in-chief here. General Bullfin, has had to stand out for moderate measures in putting down the rebellion in the face of vociferous demands for a blood and iron policy, which both n five and foreign civilians have been pressing upon him. General Allenby himself has been most tactful and con dilatory in his attitude. In fact, honesty compels me to record what shame bids me conceal, that the only man whom I have thus far heard express the sentiments of the old order is an American officer here, a pleasant chap and a social figure, who declared in my presence: "These people are nothing but damn swine. I would have no compunctions about exterminating the whole lot. men. women and chil dren. They are not fit to live. I would burn their villages and klU them all." The reader knows from these words how that man misrepresents the uni form he wears and the country whose commission he bears. There is complaint In Cairo that the government is not taking harsh enough measures with the insurrectionists. General Allenby, however, tho new HOOD RIVER. Or. May II. (Spe cial. 1 Remftrkfthln ffttnrria I. .k.l,.. lone tomorrow kh RH .n " were made by two of the gradu irnt !,., r..,. i axes or tne oaen union higl Egypt. Unless Great Britain can recon cile the people to herself, there will be hard times in store for the natives and for herself. Of course, disorder will be quelled and violence punished. There cannot be peace without law. But the great task, for which General Allenby is the one fittest man. is to create a new condition here that will commend the British course to the Egyptians and to the world. At present any future for the country without British direc tion is unthinkable. On Tuesday. June 3. Tr. Ellis ex plains who the nationalists in Egypt ire. PRISONERS' PARDON SOUGHT lioise Post Asks Wilson to Free Men Sentenced by Court-Martial. BOISE, Idaho, May 81. (Special.) Soldiers confined to prisons under sen tence passed at court-martials will be liberated if the fight that is being waged by Santa Ana post. No. 63, of Boise, is successful. It has adopted resolutions and is circulating petitions urging President Wilson to grant a parole to all prisoners pending a hear ing of their cases. It is contended that many of the men are being held un justly and their relatives are suffer ing under an unmerited disgrace. The plight of these men. besides its blighting injustice to the persons involved, is fraught with larger men ace to the future welfare of our coun try, in that they comprise a large per centage of our world war army, robbed of everything a patriot holds dear and smarting under a sense of the mons trous wrong done them, will be willing and eager recruits for bolshevism," states the resolution. STUDENTS MAKE RECORDS GIRL FIXISHJES HIGH SCHOOL IX TWO AX I) A HALF YEARS. Another Hood River County Pupil Has Average of 96.31 Per Cent for Three-Year Period. Take a Second Look 111 9 ma mm V'- ;Asi high BchoaL who received their diplomas Frldav night. Martha Ferguson, daughter of air. ana Airs. j. E. Ferguson, although only 15 years old. has completed the high school course in 2M years And has a credit to spare. Edgar Harris, aged 17, son of Mrs. E. H. Harris, has completed the work in three years. Mis. Ferguson has given during her high school career 125 readings for Red Cross. Y. W. C. 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