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Show EGYPT WW j IIS FREEDOM Lloyd George Says British Protectorate Has Been Terminated , iN'Ut X. Feb 28. iKy the As.o- riated Preset 1 Prime Minister Lloyd George announced in the house of commons this afternoon that British protectorate over Bg)pt h is been ler-tnlriated ler-tnlriated and thai Egypt was free to 1 work out such national Institutions as might be suited to tho aspirations of j j h r pe-.ule OERKD1 ' IRl MOM ETS Kg.vpt, with Its poptilillon of 10. -J loQO.OOO Pellahs, "opts, and apbroxl- matelv 100 nuu forelgnerflj Is nominal-, iv 0 part of lhe Turkish empire but, virtually constituted S dependency of Kii;!aiid. lis government Is an her- j editarv monarchy whose head, from , 1892 to 1914, was (he Kludive Abbas' I Hilmi. The stroiiK prb-Qermaj tnd pro-I pro-I Turkish attitude of Abas Hilmi ear-, ly in the war led t., his dep.,-ilion a ;i I he was succeeded b his uncle, thi i former prince Ahmed Puad bnt 'time president of the University of Egypt, wn m Invested with the title of Sultan Hussein Kcmal. Abbas iHiimi became aij exile nnd issued a ! proclamation from Constantinople in 191E. calling upon Egyptian? and Su-j danese to rise against England, whom, lie charged w ith his oi'erthrow. Later j lie was shown to have financed BolOj Pai ha the defeatist agents executed by. the French. In 11 in, Abbas llilmi's, estates in Egypt were confiscated by j t he i;n SI n men' s . l l I ( I'll INS, Several factions exist Ih Egypt, H of them committed to independence or greater fre'edona from British rule i Followers of Abbas Hilmi and the iXatlonaUsts led by Said gSagloul Pa- --ha constitute the radicals adherents ..! suituii Hussein Kemai are the moderates mod-erates Said &igloul Paslia was banished ban-ished to Ceylon bj he British on De-( c ember 29, 1921. following serious 'rioting in Cairo, Alexandria, Tanta and, other places, in w hich scores w ere Kill- ; led many wounded and several hull-; dred persons arrested. The recent disturbed conditions followed fol-lowed th-- rejection, by an Egyptian delegation representing the Sultan, of a proposed convention by tho Kritisb. government providing for a termination termina-tion tht protectorats which has continued since 1914 and for nW measures of native administration under British control. Adley Yeghen Pasha, former Premier, Pre-mier, spokesman for the Egyptians at ;the conference In London In de lm ;ng the proposals ..ff I'd ! .Manpn-Curson .Manpn-Curson said the British government's plan "failed to satisfy the national ns- plratlbns of Egypt " |