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Show ALLENBY CHECKS EGYPTIAN REVOLT REBELLION OCCURS AT BAD TIME FOR NATIVES, AS BRITISH WERE NUMEROUS Many Bedouin Chiefs Have Been Summarily Punished and Warning Issued That Villages Will be Burned Following Attacks. New York. A Herald dispatch from Cairo announces that the strong hand of General Allenby, high commissioner for Egypt, has broken the rebellion in the country against British rule. General Gen-eral Allenby, immediately upon his arrival in Egypt, adopted severe punitive pun-itive measures, and the effect of them now is apparent. . The' rising came at a time when there were more British troops in Egypt than at any time in twenty-five years. The result was that General Allenby was able to act promptly and effectively. Punitive expeditions have been sent into the troubled regions. Many casualties among the rebels have been reported. There have been wholesale arrests and many Bedouins are being detained. A proclamation has been Issued to the effect that wherever an attack is made on any point, the nearest villages vil-lages thereto will be burned without warning. Many Bedouin chiefs have been summarily punished. As a consequence conse-quence of these measures, it is quite certain that the rebellion is broken. In many places natives are guarding wide areas, railways and government property, and are preventing large gatherings and demonstrations by the populace. Armored cars and airplanes have been dispatched to remote places to aid in restoring peace and quiet. The Bedouins, who constitute the most troublesome part of the population, popula-tion, apparently were back of the revolt. re-volt. However, there is political disaffection dis-affection among all classes of the people. This disaffection Is - widespread. |