CALLAGHAN.

Admiral Sir George Callaghan was Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet from
1911 till the war began. He has since been on the War Staff at the
Admiralty.--[_Photo. Heath._]]

Quite of a piece with the doing of this job in South Africa was the
disposal of another overt enemy against our authority at the other
extremity of the Dark Continent--in the person of the Khedive, Abbas II.,
who has now been replaced by Prince Hussein Kamel Pasha as the nominal
Sultan of Egypt--under our protection and power. No change of the kind was
ever brought about with so much statesmanlike wisdom and such little
friction, or with so much hearty approval from all sides--except, of
course, that of the Turks and their German backers, for whom the change of
regime, effected as it was by a simple stroke of Sir Edward Grey's
masterly pen, was a most painful slap. The exchange of messages between
King George and Prince Hussein--one promising unfailing support, and
the other unfailing allegiance--completed the transaction, one of the
greatest triumphs of British statesmanship, compared with which the recent
statecraft of the Germans is mere amateur bungling. Marshal von der Goltz
Pasha, who has now exchanged his Governorship of Belgium for the position
of chief military counsellor on the Bosphorus, will find it harder than
ever--with his rabble army under Djemal Pasha--to "liberate" from the
British yoke the people of Egypt, who have already shown that they no more
yearn for such emancipation than our loyal fellow-subjects in India. At
Constantinople it was given out that the _Messudiyeh_, sunk by one

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[Illustration: GERMAN PRAISE OF THE BRITISH SOLDIER: GENERAL VON