In the House of Lords on Tuesday Lord Cromer made
a very Interesting and important speech on the Arab rising and the recent operations in the Sudan against the Sultan of Darfur. The action of the Shereef of Mecca was, he declared, an indication that those whom he represented put implicit confidence in the declaration very wisely made by His Majesty's Government that they did not intend to interfere with the independence or with the administration of the people of the Fledjaz. One would have thought that the successes of the Turks at Kut-el-Amara would have nipped in the bud any idea of a revolution in Arabia. This only showed, added Lord Cromer, "how truly impossible it is for any European to foretell what is going to happen in the East. All we know is that we may invariably expect the unexpected."
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