General -Allenby - , who has returned to Egypt as Special High
Commissioner, will have no difficulty in restoring order. Lord Curzon stated on Monday that the agitation was subsiding in Cairo, but that there had been violent outbreaks in the provinces. The chief rioters seem to have been Bedouin nomads living on the edge of the cultivated area, especially in the Fayum. They were armed during the war for their own protection against wandering Senussi, and are now turning their rifles against our troops and the peaceful peasantry. Lord Curzon said that the Government would welcome Rushdi Pasha, the late Egyptian Premier, in London, though they had been unable to receive him last December because the Peace Conference was occupying their whole attention. The Government, however, could havo no dealings with the intriguing Pashas, who wanted to drive us out of Egypt. These people, we any add, needed the shorn lesson which they have received.
