Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1914 — EGYPT NOW UNDER RULE OF ENGLAND [ARTICLE]

EGYPT NOW UNDER RULE OF ENGLAND

Great Britain Names New Sultan and is Prepared to Defend the New Territory, London, Dec. 18.-11:20 p. m.—A British protectorate over Egypt /was proclaimed today. Prince Hussein Kemal has been appointed sult»n and has accepted.' He is an uncle of Abbas Hilmi, until noiw khedive. The French government has recognized the British protectorate over the country in which Fiance formerly had such important interests and in return the British government has given no-< trice that it adheres to the FrancoMoorish treaty of 1912, Which, foliownig he Agadir affair, gave Fiance a protectorate over Morocco. ‘ In a letter addressed to France Hussein on his appointment, the British acting high commissioner for Egypt, (Milne Cheetham, details the efforts which he says England made to avoid war with Turkey, but which were frustrated by the war party and the Ottoman cabinet. rM. Cheetham states that there is ample evidence* that Albbas Hilmi hias thrown in his lot with ■ the enemies Of Great Britain with I the result "that the rights over the ■ Egyptian executive by the sultan of Turkey and the late khedive are , forfeited.”