Warships to Egypt.

The Egyptian and the Indian troubles need not be over-emphasised, but they have to be considered by any country that is interested—as are New Zealand and Australia—in the Mediterranean-Suez-Red Sea route. It is sufficient to say that a Labour Government—a British Labour Government that had done its utmost to compromise with an Egyptian Government in the setting up of a settlement of “reserved points”—considered the Egyptian disorder to be sufficiently serious to send British warships to the scene. Such actions are not taken for nothing. In India the position is still confused because it is difficult to discover how much the unrest partakes of the peculiar psychology of Mahatma Gandhi, and to what extent it reflects the activities of less philosophical revolutionaries. Whatever the future of events in India and Egypt, they are of immediate concern to all peoples whose communications—including air lines—pass that way.