Printed papers on the political situation and military policy in Egypt [‎71v] (142/176)

of which the respective treaties came into force. As in the previous proclamations
the High Commissioner is given a general power to dispense property from the
operation of the proclamations, and the exemption, at the discretion of Licensing
Officer (Financial Adviser), of diplomatic and consular archives, property of diplo
matic and consular agents, mixed court judges, &c., is also provided for. Meetings
of the Advisory Committee have been held, whenever deemed necessary to deal with
concrete cases. In this way the property of enemy nationals in Egypt as yet
unliquidated has been reduced to small dimensions.
519. The problem of the manner in which claims for compensation under the
peace treaties are to be proved and admitted to rank against the proceeds of liquida
tion is giving rise to considerable difficulties. The main questions under examination
are (ff) as to the extent of the obligation of claimants to submit disputed claims
to a mixed arbitral tribunal ; and (b) as to the extent of the obligation of such
claimants to exhaust their legal remedies in Germany before being entitled to rank
against the Egyptian fund. Another very important question which has been
raised is as to the validity of the Egypt Amending Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. (and the
corresponding provisions in the proclamation relating to the property of Germans)
under which Egyptian nationals who have been the object of exceptional war
measures in Germany are admitted to claim against the liquidation fund
82. Royal School of Law.
5 u°' Th ? work of the scho01 durin g the y^r 1920-21 was carried on with less
difficulty and interruption than during the previous year. It was decided to allow
the students who had tailed at the examination in May 1920 an opportunity to be
re-examined in October, and the cession of 1920-21 began with this examination
o2l. the results were not encouraging, the percentage of failures among first-
)ear students being as high as ninety-one, and the general percentage of failures
seventy-three. It was clear that the students, at whose urgent instance the examina-
non had been held, had made little effort during the summer months to regain the
time they had wasted in political agitation.
..o 522 ' rl t? ? um , ber of ^dents has rapidly increased from 734 (286 internal and
48 ytyp 111 the y 681 ' 1<J 17-18 to 1,147 (478 internal and 669 external) in the
83. School of Cadis.
523. I he work of the year 1920-21 has shown very satisfactory results, and the
conduct of the students, has been, or the whole, sood. The following short table
shows the number of students in both sections of the school, compared with the
preceding two years :—
Number of Students.
School Year.
—
Primary
Section.*
Higher
Section.f
Total
1918-19
148
113
261
1919-20
166
107
273
1920-21
165
107
272
* Four years’ course.
t Five gears’ course.
o24. At the final examinations for both sections held in June, all the students
(thirty-seven) of the fourth year primary section who presented themselves passed
successfully. Of this number, twenty-one were admitted to the first year of the higher
section and the remaining sixteen were sent to the Dar-el-Ulum Higher College 8 In
the examination for diploma and Alims’ certificates (fifth year higher sectioni
twenty out of twenty-one candidates were successful. Of the successful list of \lin]
the first two were appointed teachers in the college, twelve were employed as iudirOl
clerks in the Mahommedan courts, and five are working at the Bar ’