The Egyptian delegates had a final interview with Lord Curzon
last Saturday and left England on Sunday. They were enable to accept the conditions imposed by the Government is return for the recognition of Egypt as a sovereign state. The Foreign Office announced that the terms of the offer and the delegates' reply would be published so soon as Lord Allenby had communicated them to the Sultan of Egypt. It is said that the EDP-Ian politicians objected to the maintenance of British garrisons outside the Canal zone, although the anti- foreign riots at Alexandria showed the inability of the native authorities to deal with fanatical mobs.. While we must suspend
judgment until the papers are published, wo feel bound to say that the Foreign Office has shown very little tact in its handling of the business. To offer the Egyptians independence, as Lord Milner did, and then to qualify the offer after endless delays, was a sure way of creating difficulties and promoting disaffection-
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