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the rule of this very bad an to that of the Egyptians. "
Labouchero ridiculed the idea that a foreign power might
divert the waters of the Bile and damage Egyptian
irrigation achemos, - "it was actually argued as one of
the reanonc why they dnuld take and occupy tho goudan
that it was possible that some great engineer would
arrive and say "I will divert the courno of the Nile.
Nothing simpler" s and the great engineer will at once do
it and Egypt would be ruined. "
(2)
There were strong
Irish protests, William Redmond asserting "the real
object of all these expeditions was pimply to seize rich
and fertile lands. "
(3)
Harcourt : rophesied united Liberal resistance to the
advance, but there was little agitation in the country
except from the peace societies,
(4)
and the Radical press
auch no Reynolds Ngn]2a er, "We look upon the occupation of
ern. ri r irrýý
Egypt as the worst and most fatal thing done by a British
(1) I d, co .. 1490.
(2) It
i cots. 1036-7.
(3) h1 i, col. 1058.
(4) See Psonconforriint rind Indengndent, 210t }ar 1896.
(I)