Author : Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1331181453
Atrocities of Justice, Under British Rule in Egypt (Classic Reprint) by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Pdf
Excerpt from Atrocities of Justice, Under British Rule in Egypt So, too, the pretence of legality in the trial has been gradually shifted to that of military necessity, if not by Sir Edward Grey, at least by his supporters in the English Press. As early as the 14th of October the Cairo correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, after a tour in the Delta, wrote as follows: - "The bogey of 'unrest in Egypt' is, I trust, buried... I grant that in the neighbourhood of Tantah there is much bitter feeling, a feeling that one can well understand in view of the Denshawai deplorable business. Britishers here have a particular and proper pride in supporting whatever action may be taken by the British authorities, and yet I have up to the present not met a single Englishman whose business keeps him in constant contact with the true fellaheen who has not deplored the reprisals taken by us at Denshawai. But this is apart from the important and insistent question, 'Is there unrest in Egypt?' Again I say there is no foundation for the assertion that there' is unrest." Nevertheless, in spite of its admissions, our Government has done nothing at all to atone for its agent's great mistake. Lord Cromer has returned to Egypt without a word of official reproof; his subordinates have neither been dismissed nor censured. No promise has been given of a repeal of the abominable decree of 1895, nor any engagement taken that like judicial atrocities shall not on like occasions be repeated. Worst of all, the villagers condemned by the mock tribunal of Shibin-el-Kom are still undergoing their sentences of hard labour, unrelieved by prospect of release. Among them, be it noted, is the husband of the peasant woman wounded by the officer's gun fired in the pigeon-shooting raid! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
