The Archive · 1914

Great Britain and Egypt

PRINCE HUSSEIN MADE

Csiro, Dec. 18.

A salute of 101 guns fired Said and the Union this afternoon at Alexandria, Port

isted at the British Agency at Cairo.

London, Dec, 18.

Official.—H. Hussein Kamel Pash uncle to the ex-Khedive, has been appointed to succeed him with the title of Sultan. Prince Hussein will be decorated with the Order of the Grand Cross of the Bath on his accession to the Sultanate.

Colonel Sir Arthur McMahon, the High Commissioner, will leave England shortly for Egypt.

The Press Bureau announces that France has recognized Egypt as a British Protectorate and thet Great Brit adheres to Franco-Moorish Treaty of March 30, 1912.

London, Dec. 18.

Indigation is rising in Athens owing to the condemnation to death, in Constantinople, of a Greek naval officer on a charge of espionage. The Greek papers say that relations between Greece and Turkey will be broken off if the sentence is carried out.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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