22 SEPTEMBER 1906, Page 1

On Friday week it was announced from Constantinople that the

difficulties in the delimitation of the Turco-Egyptian frontier in the Sinai Peninsula had been overcome, and that a final agreement bad been arrived at between the British Embassy and the Porte. The nature of that agreement is not yet public, but since the question at issue was whether or not the British demands should be accepted in full, we may assume that the boundary-line for which we have contended on Egypt's behalf has been accepted, and that her eastern boundary is now recognised as being a straight line drawn from the head of the Gulf of Akabah to a point to the east of El Arish, on the Mediterranean coast. The con- troversy had no great importance in itself, for the several hundreds of miles of desert involved had little intrinsic value for Egypt; but the principle raised by Turkey's action had a vital bearing on Britain's whole position in the East. We again congratulate his Majesty's Government on their firm advocacy of British rights, and the successful issue.