1906] My "Atrocities of Justice" 149 



" 4th July. — To Clifford's Inn, to see Neville's exhibition of pic- 

 tures, his Bernard Shaw portrait among them. 



" 6th July. — I have had a letter from Keir Hardie, the Labour 

 leader, asking my opinion about Grey's statement, and have answered 

 him. [The peculiarity in Hardie's letter was that it showed him to 

 be entirely ignorant even as to where the atrocities had taken place, 

 imagining it to be somewhere in the Soudan.] 



" 8th July (Sunday). — The new Egyptian Nationalist leader, Musta- 

 pha Kamel, writes to me from Paris saying he wishes to see me, and 

 I have telegraphed back proposing that he should come over to Eng- 

 land, and offering to lodge him at Chapel Street. There was a sicken- 

 ing account on Friday in the ' Pall Mall ' of the Denshawai executions. 

 I think it must smash Cromer. There are a number of French and 

 English papers, too, come from Cairo which make a damning case of 

 abuse of justice in the trial. I intend to write a pamphlet to be called 

 ' Atrocities of Justice under English Rule in Egypt.' x 



" nth July. — Anne and I spent yesterday writing in connection with 

 this, and translating the Egyptian newspapers. I have written as well 

 as telegraphed to Mustapha Kamel urging him to come to England 

 without delay. The moment is most propitious for a National Egyptian 

 demonstration. To-day being the anniversary of the bombardment of 

 Alexandria, I headed my letter ' Anniversaire du bombardement 

 d'Alexandrie. Que Dieu le venge.' He has telegraphed in return 

 that he will come to London on Saturday, and sends in the meantime 

 a manifesto addressed to the English nation and the world at large, 

 which he is having published in the ' Figaro.' Robertson, too, the 

 Radical member for Newcastle, in whose hands Dillon left the case 

 while he is away in Ireland, writes saying he wants to see me. So I 

 went up to London. Robertson tells me that he has seen Grey, and he 

 ' has hopes that Grey will propose reforms in the way of a new edict, 

 which will make the sentences of the special tribunal subject to appeal, 

 and stop public executions and perhaps all floggings.' This is all rub- 

 bish ; the Appeal Court is too entirely under Cromer's thumb to be of 

 the least use, except, perhaps, to delay future executions. As to stop- 

 ping public executions, it would only make matters worse for the 

 Egyptians, who would then be hanged and flogged in private, to them 

 a greater punishment, and more beyond the control of English and 

 native opinion. Of course this privacy is exactly what Cromer would 

 like, and I hope Robertson would refuse to accept it as any mitigation. 



" 12th July. — There is a splendid article in the 'Tribune,' thanks 

 to Meynell, who got them to put it in, the best we have yet had in 

 any paper. Robertson came to breakfast, and I had a good two 

 hours with him. He has put down a number of questions for this 



1 See Appendix. 



