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Show r& gypts Jubilation "W ounds j Pride of English in Cairo Celebration for General Allenbv's Concessions Unnerves British and Tommies In I Turbulent Mood Break Loose. ' I By WILLIAM T. ELLIS. ' (Copyright, 1919, bv tbe New York Herald Her-ald Company All Rights Reserved.) , (Copyright, Canada, by the Nw York Herald Company. ) (Special to Tbe $ait 1 ke Tribune and New York Herald.) CAIRO. June 2. Recent events in k'-rvpt have wounded Great Britain Brit-ain in her most sensitive spot, her spirit of sportsmanship nd fair play. In a critical hour a considerable consid-erable number of the British in Egypt have proved to be bad losers and not loyal to their own leader. Suddenly, within an hour. Cairo's unprecedented un-precedented festival of jubilation was transformed into a scared, scurrying, resentful re-sentful and murderous-minded mob of rnen and women tent on bitter vengeance. "What caused this dramatic change, ending-, as by magic, all the rejoicings and celebrations? Nothing less than the collapse, col-lapse, locally, of a glorious British tradition. tradi-tion. The lack of chivalry on the part of many or most British citizens in Cairo has cost their nation more dearly than any man cn at present estimate. The historic British reputation for square dealing, which has hitherto been the empire's supreme asset in the world, is now being blanketed by the swift -fl ing news that when a great official rectified a stup'.d government blunder in Kcypt his subordinates and nationals refused to play the game, and at tbe sight of a subject people's rejoicings over the good news of British fairness gave way by railincs, cursings, violence and killings. Anally precioitatlnir a situation which made the latter state of things worse than diers were not informed as to the real situation, and they had little tasio to stand idly by ;-.t;d v;teh iho "gyppies." whom for weeks they had been Ii-m dintr like sheep, given complete possession tf the streets to eomiuet an overwhelming victory oeiehrat ion. Had I he men been kept in barracks whiie the jubilation was in prepress t here M ould have been no actual oiiLhreaU. blow couid tuese soldiers know thai the occasion w.is mebing Hi;ypi:m animosity, and solvintr a delicate yitrrralional situation, situ-ation, and causing Ecypt hin Vitionndst leaders to say that, after ail. they did not want Creat Britain to leave Kt-ypt , but j only to defin.e relationships and correct abuses'.' Cenerai Ailenby's victory was as I great as his capture of Jerusalem. Had j they understood, bis soldiers would never ; have caused its collapse. ! Tommy Breaks Loose. While the talk of officers and men and I women barring the group of greater one? j at the top, real statesmen of Central Al-t Al-t lenby's sort was so bitter atratnst Etvp-I Etvp-I tians that 1 heard Australians and Amer-h-ans openly rebuke it, the real outbreak I came on the niicht of April T. the day of the proclamation. Orient;'.!? commonly ! seek indoors after dark, so the streets j were ratht-r deserted. Then it w:s ::l the Tomnv.es appeared on p:.rade. h-.irmg huge Brtt:sh fnt and sincirg and shout-' shout-' inc. One crowd cat! ered in front of Shep- heard's and sar.ar. "Tiule FrUanva." i Then they went into the adjacent native j quarter, espeeini'v the red lU'iit district. and cut loose. They beat up ma-.y E p-i p-i tians and kiTed others. Property they 1 smashed. T'-.e bot-';rd up resentment created cre-ated by the Egyptian festial found a con-I con-I genial vent. It was after midmgb.t tv-fore Ithe military pob.ee and officers quelled the disturbance. Tc.ose were hours of terror for any natives Mho chanced to be near the celebrating soldiers. me nrst. Frank Words. Such an incident is not easy to write. By conviction I am essentially pro-British. 1 hftve seen her work all over the world, and while criticisms couid be writ- j ten of British manners, the British character, char-acter, on the whole, has everywhere tool for even-handed justice and integrity ot purrose. Britjph rule ha? meant the substantial sub-stantial welfare and procre?s of the na-Siv na-Siv peoples, even rs here in Keynt. The new ideals which are com in e to dominance in the world are more than American they are Are'.o-Saxon. Thai these two races, speaking the one toncie. possessing the one literature, cherishing many of the same convictions and traditions, tradi-tions, should stand together in world service seems mdispensdhie to the ad-aancement ad-aancement of the hichest rivi'.iiation. Any recreancv of either to the fundamental ideals which are our common Inheritam-e j !s a wrons; none to hoth. Fch owes the j ether candor, as well as charity nf Mid?- ; ; mert. Both must pay the stir ulut "d ' price of honor if they arc to work together. to-gether. . Since the matter is ere of cravet moment, mo-ment, aflectinsr the future of the r.t.ir : fast. I am ohlieed to record that here in ! Cairo, at the apex of Eeynt's cr:.s:. the : nia jority of the resident British m' litary j and civilians failed to live up to the ; storied traditions of their race. They re-j re-j traved their breed. Iok;uc o :t :pon the innocent j'jhi'.ations of a r.at:on whi.-h was j rejo'cir? because ii hal Jus received f-om a British hieh commissione'-'s hands a : boon which ii deemed its r!cht. t-e Brii-! Brii-! ish spectators displayed oniy Ma.-k looks ; j and ha-sh words and oreniy xprejsei s" j that ail rrisht hear the wih to turn j j Tnhine puns unon th demonstrators I . Dozens of times on the terraces of th 1 j two bip foreicn hotis and c!"w're I J . heard thfs came unorieinal srtirpnt et-; ; jresstd: " I'd like to turn th mat'liinej j guns on tliem." Vnrrn we!! as i j diers repeated this bIo"-d'hir-ry nm"J- j ment. T'n exultant, exuberant r-n-Ad i were ca ; i ed n as t s s w i n e and rr r '- v s . j Tr.-t commonly and d-mhd unfit to I j 1 Eventually. whn the tenMin wimrp 1 J the British soldiers cr-w too crr. thy ' : ercke out in host:Ie diTins'ra'.iT'.-'. j whi'-h resu'fed in mor kiliine? ard ! t-;med festival of rejofrir.p inn Mn' I ! b tterness and hatred. Tt wa all worse I J than a crime it was & blunder. I Collapse and Cause. I Even th"Jph inxcusab!". the se "f j j tt : nd r,f h e Br", tish in Ca : r" a.- rx - 1 p " a M e . Sorr. troops hid v : 1 Mn r- 1 ! called from hmeard -ho i nd irr'- '-;rs ; ' ordr to he'p put dwn th i;eT'""'" j J u?-,s:r.f. Kn-'.wledee T h ' Br: i-h i j fld'-rs bad n rn'-s.t f-u-Iy n-'ird'-r 1 j ' by an up-cour.Ty mob bad q-jikn'-d ! -r t rr 0 r. t apaint th na'iv. Th d- ; 3 " ru"'. i n rr.vriiTrl prop'-rty k"-nly , ; wourded th Enpiih who bsd !.ri I-.r.' rsid-nt in th land. dvolne t h em v j to th- urhuhd r? of h nation. I"n;(,'; '-onterrpt for na:vs. and fop thu ' pvripv ' j t. 1 rarti'uiar. was a "-"int r-.hu".rp f-i' inr. 1 I hav rini e brd the x-j pu' fr-rh ; that t h e e K r. 5 . i h in C r o do no, t r 1 1 - v r-r-resr.t th B-iri-h spirit : th' y Imvc b--n awav from homo too I'. rip. j , "erta:n'y It was not ea-y for V.rz' ar,-rrrrt ar,-rrrrt to admit that their snvrTin;T: ; h-td r-ade a hz mistak in rf"J"-inp r-n-1"-s on for a dputa'ion to en to F'aris and in d-prtinz four Epyp'ian 1 ;i d-.-(. fhu itonf'--j;r? tht the na"vq hid bad a I r! raon for riainp. "'rfral Al!i-.hv j ' f on in ' -om p! iy r" vrl " z t b -ou r ' 0 he a ij f n rr 1 r i ar-t'il'd to thm I v. .i - r. rathr thnn Hi p'roph o-1 , 7-aE-nanimi v and tn:M '"''. Tho, rom mon rom mn wa that h h'.u I d h'a'-e K:vi thm a h:L-pT d'-4 o l-ad. . r-.a'l rr Pdmtf nr.? fht a hiurdt- bid hi-e. c'lniTf'-'i sri h;it r H'i'i-"h 'A"re ; ror? and tn Epv'Uni fih'. f-'u r ' h e"o .(, f faliur '1' th r-ro-Ad" f-hf'T ffroptf Flrlfain or To rarrv Uri'i-.h 1 f .sr fa ' ! ra . 1 v s"i np t h t. . dt ' rf p.:';i'"' l!--''--''rp to fiiT.-f f'r orhor "f .'.j ri r . T w 1 f '. o f ; r n f i:m I'arn. fr.; -h---rs f -r fjrot Hri'H:n w-r -t- 1 j iiH-"'"! bv n;ifiv Iwlfi who ;i v 'haf J ) bour ai ore for n: t:n n ; 01 i ' y : fjf"n. a f ( . i j , f to re' 'ire ? j ' o 1'ia'j'h' (rf.r r"-.d bv fh t'i'! i Ki : ' v. od i a fa':'or of t rn'T'a r.' , tu. t!rft-h i d - j ists into a more turbule:'.t. tv.c'i. alihouich i their leaders profess-M to dismiss it all as an exnlic.Uie lo.il uisturhan.-e. But frequent fre-quent lv there Wris a note of dev.an in the cries of Tuoday that r-.A been e:f.re-ly e:f.re-ly absent tlie 'lay bc're "down with oppression op-pression :" "Evpt for !-:'ptM ns "' and su.h like. Tht-ro are i:.s:.tn.-e reported of ph ra d -rs ha v 1 n er sp a t at B r it 1 h ? o! -dier?. The common notion a:ro:. the Tomm tes that th.e ",;-:. x re c-'l-j- bratinc a victory nv-r thm w t ui.-io :id-ediy :id-ediy s :ared at it .-s; by the ! itive r.iht''. One espe-dal twuje of orf'-n.-e w.i the pres-Tro of o.' .i--o-.'l T.r'-;:-: i in th proofs-roil. Hrr-1 ac'.m wis a r-',--;n-derstar.din.-. Tonim v t h rd t'. with one star an I . r.-'-ert tth--- Il-- r'mn f.asr has th-f-e st.i-si cn'v -5 t:1 '.'l-'m of the Turk. a:-. rM whom hid b-'u ftshtinc. Th. Btr.pth.n it inly ns a f.asr Ihv i;--1 to h iv- r.-i h.t-d t'-.e ore iha h.d b t f. -z' of )::;: for 4-'- 1 - rs a- d rrr d"wn 11! 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