3 MAY 1919, Page 3

President Wilson on Tuesday week formally recognized the British Protectorate

in Egypt. He said at the same time that the American people " have every sympathy with the legitimate aspirations of the Egyptian people for a further measure of self- government, but that they view with regret any effort to obtain the realization thereof by a resort to violence." America, in the. Philippines, Hayti, and San Domingo, has come to know the difficulties which face a Protecting, Power, and her sympathy with us in Egypt is valuable. The Egyptian Nationalists seem to have been thunderstruck at President Wilson's tacit refusal to help them. On the same day General Allenby warned the Egyptian officials who had gone on strike that they must return to work or lose their posts. Next day the Departments were fully manned.