| Show THE SULTAN WOULD NOT Time report that the French Embassa thor to Turkey has lalely been endeavor lug to persuade the Sultan to lake advantage ad-vantage of the present situation In South Africa to protest against the continued occupation of Egypt by Brit ish troops may perhaps afford an explanation ex-planation of the alarmist speech made in the Houfe of Lords two weeks ago by cxPrcmler Hos h nIt n-It has generally boon assumed that lImo oxPremier nitidt have beon in possession pos-session of Information not accessible to the public which Inspired I and Justified time extremely gloomy view ho took of tho situation and the outlook It IB I not unlikely that 1 he was aware of the effort ef-fort to reopen I the Egyptian question through th agency of the Sultan who I as time suzerain of time Khedive und the overlord of Egypt Is I the one who Is entitled If he please to take acilon In Ihe mailer and a demand for the evacuation evac-uation of Egypt by Great Britain bucked up by France and Russia and not opposed by i any other firstclass continental i power would be a complication compli-cation of grave Importance Such an attempt may not Inconceivably Inconceiva-bly have been made and In that event the reason assigned for Its failure Is ni logclher likely The reason Is 1 thai the I Influence of the Emperor of Germany was used to restrain the Sultan from taking action to which ho was being urged Ever since Germany at the lime of the Armenian massacres prevented pre-vented by her attitude the cooperation of the powers for the coercion of tIme Turkish Government there has been nothing within the Sultans gift that the Kaiser has not been able to have for the asking and as the ofllclul relations rela-tions between Germany and Great Britain Bri-tain are at this lime particularly friendly It Is easy to believe that German Ger-man Influence should be exerted as alleged al-leged to restrain the Sultan from any pernicious aclivlly In the direction indicated in-dicated What Is less credible is that France I knowing those relations so well and also being well aware of the paramount Influence of Germany at Constantinople Constantino-ple should have made the attempt alleged al-leged to have been made and to have failed Philadelphia Inquirer |
