We do not, of course, pretend to like what has
happened, but things might have been worse but for Lord Allenby. The people we are really sorry for-are the fellaheen. For them there is an almost certain prospect of harder forma of Government, and of that. increased taxation which comes from inefficiency or corruption. The fellaheen have not the knowledge or the experience to foresee this. Very likely they think that the good roads and the -other great works of engineering which have been provided by British_ rule.are unnecessary. But in time to come, when their taxes rise higher, and there are not even engineering works to show for the taxation, they will want to be back under the rule with which they are now joyfully dispensing. After all, the amount of taxation is the one measure by which the small Egyptian cultivator judges the affairs of his little world. That is the one thing which he can clearly understand.
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