Egypt under the British PDF book 1896 by H. F. Wood

This Image of 1919 Revolt

At the threshold — The struggle of the languages— British business interests — Port Said no longer the wickedest spot on earth " — French suspicion of a British structure — An "Evacuation speech " in England — The Port Said French and English clubsPort Said versus Alexandria — Wanted, a railway — Local grievances — The Suez Canal Company — No English (except pilots) need to apply — A missionary on the Field for trade — British trade-marks forged — A Birmingham commercial traveler tries Egypt for the first time — Ismailia a French settlement.By rail through the Land of Goshen — Tel-el-Kebir— From Bedouins to Fellaheen — Business show-cards at the Delta railway-stations — Factory chimneys by the Nile — The British garrison at Alexandria — A tradition of the Gloucestershire Regiment — No outward symbols of the OccupationCertain of the " people who are here to keep order " — A British sergeant's view — At the site of Cleopatra's palace — Association football — Native sentiment on the Occupation — The fear to declare for the British, in case they should leave — Tactics of the French Opposition — A policy of worry, harass, and wear-out, if possible — British pledge- Recrimination — French grievances — The British business community at a disadvantage — Tenders for Government contracts — British firms bid too high-^The Fellaheen on the Foreigner — An Austrian financier on the Occupation — Probable result of a plebisciteThe " Anglicanization " of Cairo — Rule, and Semi-Rule — Greek money-lenders in the villages-^How they evade the law — ^The Fellaheen buying machinery — Two or three wives on thirty shillings a week — An English industry ruined by the English — Adaptability, and consolation — Under-sold again — ^Alexandria versus Port Said — Official backsheeshThe Egyptian Newspaper Press — Pro-British organs — Organs of the French, Arab, and Turkish Oppositions — ^Journalistic warfare— The program of Hajee Abdullah Browne — Moustafa Kamel's campaign in France— Lord Dufferin's Organic Law— The judicial system— Reforms— Sitting of a Native TribunalInterview with the Sheikh Ali Youssef, editor of the Modiad — The leading daily paper of the Arab Opposition — Why the Modiad allies itself with the French party — French action in the matter of the reserve funds — Neither France, nor England, nor the Sultan — A choice between France and England— j-Egypt for the EgyptiansDr. Nimr, of the Mokattam, on the program of the Modiad — — What *' Egypt for the Egyptians " means — M. Deloncle and Moustafa Kamel: their anti-British pamphlets and lectures — Greater freedom of the Press in Egypt, under the British, than is enjoyed by the French Press in France itself — Egypt envied by Syria — Fellaheen impressions — The Year of the BlessingAnother standpoint — M. Kyriacopoulo on Egypt and the Eastern Question — The natives "recognize the benefits of the Occupation," but "fnar to manifest their sentiments:" again, "not sure that the situation will continue " — A suggestion to the British Government —, Egypt in progress — The mistakes of Gladstonian England —What is neutralizationEgypt a school of languages — The Ottoman Spy system — Lord Cromer — Misgivings on all hands — *' We have promised" — Lord Cromer's aims and impartiality — A parallel with 1796^— Have the fellaheen short memories? — The pUbiscitCt if secret — News for politicians who would "give Syria to France " — The Khedive Abbas IT. — Two judgments on Great BritainAuthor: H. F. Wood Publication Date: 1896