28 JANUARY 1922, Page 2

Zaghlufs partisans in Egypt published on Tuesday an appeal for

a boycott of British people and British goods and for " non- co-operation " in Mr. Gandhi's manner. As the appeal was designed to promote disaffection and violence, Lord Allenby ordered the arrest of the signatories and the suppression of the newspapers which printed the document. He is responsible for public security in Egypt, and his action is thus fully justified. The pity of it is that the small educated minority who alone concern themselves with politics in Egypt were encouraged by the hesitations of the British Government to suppose that they could drive us out of Egypt if they only made themselves unpleasant enough.