SIR, —Mr. Wingfield is right in correcting the sug- gestion that
all British clubs in Egypt excluded Egyptians. In Cairo, two clubs founded for the recreation of officers of the Army of Occupation, the Turf Club and the Gezira Sporting Club, elected Egyptian members.
But Mr. Wingfield is wrong in implying that there was no reciprocity. The leading Egyptian clubs, the Mohamed Aly. in Cairo and the club of the same name in Alexandria, had numerous British members.
Like Mr. Wingfield, I never heard a bawdy ver- sion of the Egyptian national march. No doubt he and Mr. Jesman know that the tune is that of a music-hall song which attracted the Khedive Ismail when he visited England. The refrain went: 'Said the old Obadiah to the young Obadiah, "Obadiah, Obadiah, I am dry."'
Is this Mr. ldsman's 'bawdy version"/—Yours faith-
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