GREAT SECRECY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 November 1927, Page 5

GREAT SECRECY

ANCLO-ECYPTIAN RELATIONS. RESULTS OF CONVERSATIONS. Cairo, Nov. 26. The greatest secrecy is maintained concerning the results of the conversations between Sarwat Pasha and Sir Austen Chamberlain in London. It is rumoured that some sort of arrangement was provisionally reached for co-operation between the British and Egyptian military and aviation forces in the Soudan. The newspaper “El Ahram” says the British Foreign Office communicated the results of the conference to the dominions, explaining why it was considered necessary to modify the British position in Egypt on the basis of the principles agreed on in the course of the conversations. Sarwat Pasha agreed not to disclose anything concerning this until the dominions had been consulted Consequently he is awaiting Sir Austen Chamberlain’s release before making a statement to the Egyptian Parliament. The “El Ahram” affirms that while in the Egyptian Government all parties are completely in agreement, the British Government is itself divided.—(A. and N.Z.) Kawau Handicap. — 1 Wedding March (Rennie) 1. 3 Red Comet (McRae) 2, 5 Gold Rain (Carmont) 3. Scratched: Piet. Won by threequarters of a length, a neck between second and third. Time. 2.28.