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Inside Story of Adiplomatic Tempest in the Far East THE SUN AND NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1920. Inside Story of a Diplomatic Tempest in the Far East - too choked with emotion to be able to swallow even one prawn. Mr Gary decided One Who Helped Straighten Out Tangle Tells to have the mob removed, pleading some Hampson Gary's Plight Due to Demonstration (xcuae, he succeeded In reaching the tele How Sultan Prov ed Embarrassing hone and there summoned the native po- Natives That Threatened to bet Guest lice. bv These spindle-shanke- d worthies, arriving of American Representative in Cairo upon the scene were prompily swallowed by British Lion to Roaring the crowd and the uproar continued with -- row tipples' made In front m Br LIEUT. NEGLEY F ARSON, R A F. undiminished violence. stand up" at ShephearcTs bar. the Consul what a those hap- Agency last night wasn't GREAT Balkan Matters had reached a fearful contretemps nought me out After explaining the the Itr statesman ha a just went to meet approval of the Sultan, "Ra-atber- iv of prfvinus evening he stated was Mr answer. given 'u L when Mr. Gary thought of the Are brigade; penings the ua hi reminiscence Written f to how Then we would pry ourselves loose frosj A A pertect indulged thla waa summoned If there Is one thing thai he had been instructed ascertain cleansing waa next Mr to a. the, were, after the smoke of the w, , that the native Egyptian loathe on the much importance the different Englishmen him and inveigle the Wf Jgjg rrlwsl was have a drink; whereupon we would diplo- aorld var had cleared away ihey aland aa m m uch a apoUeaa place. And on the morn uiside It Is water. In Cairo attached to the incident It a -- Of the matically lead the conversation to last night i lassie In the "I told you at." form ol lng of hi, visit to show a full and thriving The city of Cairo's Are fighters galloped from the manner of their reception literature, pointedly o up. hel- Mr Gary must lake his cue for disturbance. and remind on of the hopltal. oil icoU-is- t were bad resplendent in their brass Roman affair that paint pt a-alher" seemed to be the correct and old Swedish proverb. Ton can always pick fo bed. where In long agonized rowe we mets The kng hose was unrolled and a action. response to our leading question, " winner aner the rate. awaited the pleasure of hia Highness. It Niagara of water descended upon the na- "Come over to the Turf Club." said th universal ' Englishman' talk upon the sub- And. aa all correct!- written miiiiuiv was a mark of aianal eaieem a nit one 1 tive. It saved the night With howls of Consul. "We will feel their pulse." and the ar I part stopped with that one sord. should, they leave with ycu the impression shall never forget a I waa forced to give execration the bedraggled students of Tnls is where plaed my m.Wi ject usually cWar up that their author rouat have been a great up a hm neon engagement 1 had for that and their converts disperaed to their m assisting to the incident The End of a Diplomatic Day. man Mr. evening. Mr the Con- In thla eaae he waa. day at the Union Club In Alexandria' respective homes, and Gary and the "Good Acting as a buffer state for the Consul I - sul bowed a thirsty planter or civil ser- mention this because In following hia Dressed in the red tarboosh and khaki Sultan wert- left to continue their dinner 0 conversation I found that I waa consuming I introduce you Mr example aa aure that I am committing no uniform of an officer In the Egyptian army, The SuJtan appeared quite unmoved, but the vice official." let me to. an inordinate amount of whiskey and (da. diplomatic oi United of X " The Consul then bowed to me and ireach of etiquette In revealing the Sultan, followed by hia imposing staff, representative the State so my part of the conversations became to the my bed. fall in with mood e the falr.ie-s- t flicker of a wink world the secret of a certain dinner strode to sick America could not his smaller and smaller as the time, and the In He knew within forty-eig- hours I would shake hands with Mr So-an- d Bo i'ariy Cairo that nearly caused an open "Vous etes blesse. M"sJeuT that Mr. passed by And rupture Downing and Washington would be and then, looking at the Consul, say in a various between the two great friendly "Ah. oui. Votre Haut Street finally, to my sincere relief, he announced Powers 1 dewnmage'" bubbling with discussion over haJ dry voice. "'I say. let's have a drink." Creai Britain and America Aa "Cest what we were through for the day. was "Ah. oui Voire Haut taken place; for him the incident meant the "Certainly." would repjy the Consul to me. that fortunate enough, in a modest way. to Driving back to Sbeoheard the cool hreete af "J'espere que vous serai raieux ." beginning of of en'.rarra.sdne officis Won't you join Us. Mr. assistance in clearing up this incident. hientot retms Jtvlved me somewhat. "I think our mission I feel that I am free, good "Ah. oui, Votre Hauteooe." explanA'icn and stiff correspondence. And Mr. invariably would' and in a position, was a 'dud.' " I declared, "all that you could to give the He impressed me as an extraordinarily But Mr. Gary' as 1 have remarked, was We would then sit down on the old true account of what actually gei out of them was " took place kind and human potentate, who. Jn an able diplomat; he knew the art of throw- hide divan under the head qf the that He smiled was enough. 1 blistering heat was suffering from too much ing up straws to see which way the wind Cape buffalo, and either the Consul or I That It wasi Fuad U the present Sultan of Egypt, is way looked adipose- tissue. blowsl And the next day. at the sundown eould casually remark. "Extraordinary, what they said, it was the they the eighth ruler of the dynasty of Muham-me- d A Egypt and the way they said it that I wanted la All. who. appointed Governor of Egypt is under the British Protectorate the position of the leading see" Then he looked at me and laughed in IkOl. made himself absolute master of foreign diplomats the accredited to the 'They're a great race, aren't they V country by force of arm, in 1S11 The Sultan is of a necessity title extremely ambiguous a "Tha's a far'." said I. g.ven to Muhammed All and his immediate and specie of hybrid official, a crot between the diplomatic "Listen.' he sa.d seriously, "when dealinc successors was the Turkish one of Vali or and consular service, is the way lth Englishmen and England here' a liiik Viceroy, which was changed by the Imperial in which the problem has been solved officials, ESS tit of poetry you ought to remember: firman of June It, 1M7, into the Persian These I carrying water on both shoulders, have "If England was what England stems. AraMc of the Khidew-Mis- r. or as com- the more title Consul General "And not the England of our dream. monly called the Khedive. and Diplomatic Agent assHiL At the time of which I the repre- "But only putty, brass and paint write " Rise and Fall of Issaail I. sentative of the United State of America "How quick we'd chuck her-- but she ain't I I Isma.: . father of ;be present Sultan, in this office was Hampson Gary, now the "That's a lac'," said approvingly. recognized as Khedive by the Imperial Haitiiu I'nited States Minister to Switzerland 'ur 'pas'Tir' pulled up at Shepheard Through "1 111 Sherif of FeVaary la. 1M1. iKFU'--d under tile no fault of hia own. this ab diplo- "Come on." said the Consul, think lake guarantee of the five European Power mat was to that hia position could you up to your room, you bad better lie By a have disadvantages firman issued June . 1171, the Sul-U- n its and be fraught with d' wn for a bit" of Turkey granted considerable Jl He smiled. "This d'plomatjc life I wearing to Ismail I. the embarrassment One right' hitherto withheld of concluding com-roerci- of the prime requisites for an Ambas- you out" treaties with foreign posers aad of sador abroad Is having the ability and the maintaining armie. finances with which to lavishly, me with bitter emphasis: they'd i. entertain "If Just TV. Ismail 1 did not pay up to form, and In and In particular to provide good dinner. me go in there with about two hundred of State Richer by $4,000,000 he was IKi forced to aidicate under pres- And it was in the excellent repast he laid my men . we'd cut, the heart right M. TRAVIS. State Comptroller, sure of the British and French government before the Sultan in November. that out of all this bail) agitation." OB Decemr-e- ltlt. EUGENE in his July pamphlet of the . a British Protec- Mr Gary unwittingly trod upon the toe of I don't know, of course, but I think tha' a torate over Egypt was declared, and or, the the British lion m the residency across the upon the night he had the honor of enter- York State finance that Fed- i trt day a proclamation was issued depos- way.
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