EGYPT

Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1930, Page 5

EGYPT

CONFERENCE IN LONDON. THE OPENING PROCEEDINGS. [United Press Association.—By Electri Telegraph.—Copyright. J (Received this day at 11 a.m./ LONDON, March 31. Twenty-four Egyptians in somnr morning dress with red fezzes, sat 01 one side of the Locarno room at tin Foreign Office and twenty-seven Brit ish representatives occupied the othci side. The vital concern of the Dominion! was exemplified hy the attendance o: -Mr Wilford and Mr Casey. Youth, predominated the AngloEgyptians. ao references were made by Mr Henderson or Nalias Pasha at the opening of the Conference to the security of the Suez Canal, except by inference, in the presence of Mr Shaw and Mr Thomson supporting Mr Henderson. - Mr Henderson said the occasion was of especial sigificance in the relations 'of the two countries,., which had come together firstly to strengthen the League, that great organisation which nations were building up to .establish a world peace, and secondly to seal by a treaty of friendship between two peoples whose interests in so many 'uspec-ts were identical. There had beeh failures in the past, hut he refused to countenance the possibility of a failure* on this occasion. His Maj- ' " esty’s Government was much grati- *'* fled to observe that the spirit of "friendship and goodwill which : had " prompted its offer last August, had "Le4n reciprocated by Egypt. He looted' forward to seeling the relations between Great Britain and Egypt' secured on a basis of permanent friendship. Nalias Pasha, replying, referred to the' generous sympathy which had ' prompted the British Government in ■ making proposals for ail Anglo-Egypt-ian treaty, to, which it was his pleasing duty to make public homage. Egypt had responded to Britain’s conciliatory intentions , with equal . goodwill. He felt convinced that an agreement satisfactory to both sides would be reached. Previous' failures in* ! noway discouraged the Egyptian delegation. • j The representatives of the ' two • countries then 'retired behind closed doors, to wrestle with the difficulties.