EGYPTIAN CONFERENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1930, Page 6

EGYPTIAN CONFERENCE

AGAIN RESUMED

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RUGBY, May 5

Negotiations with the Egyptian delegation were resumed at the Foreign Office this evening. Mr Henderson (Foreign Secretary) was accompanied shy Lord Thomson (Secretary for Air), Lord Passfield (Secretary for Dominion), Mr Dalton (Parliamentary Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs) Sir Robert Vi assart (Pernianen Under Secretary lor’ foreign Affairs), Sir Percy Loraine (High Commissioner in Egypt). The situation created by the leierence home by the Egyptian delegation was considered, and after conversations lasting two and a half hours, negotiations were adjourned until tomorrow miming.

It is understood*, there is still a difficulty over Sudan and over one or two other points.- .. ; ;

NO SETTLEMENT. : ; LONDON, * (May 5

The Foreign. Office announces there •is no solution found;for, the Egyptian development, nor is .a,ny within sight.

ANGLO-KG YPT'IAN RELAT U>Xs

LONDON, May 5

Soon after the two Egyptian emissaries landed from Cairo, the afternon air was- full of rumours that a •breakdown of. the Anglo-Egyptian conference was imminent on the question of the Soudan.

The Australian Press are definitely informed this is the only outstanding point on which the Egyptians are seeking more than last year's draft treaty conceded.' There are indications that Nahas Pasha is disposed to Swallow, the leek will a reservation 'tlntb within a brief period, -and subject to Egypt fulfilling the new role worthily, the question of the Soudan ; should he , reviewed with the object of giving Egypt a greater measure of control, but at least three of l is Waitlist colleagues in London are completely truculent thereon, as they feel it the soundest basis of a rupture and most likely to raise the V aid prestige in Egypt. . 1 Mr Henderson ' and Ills colleagues, however, are immovable and are opposed to the thesis that Egypt and Hie Soudan, arc ethuoogically one. I bev pointed out that- hut for the . British and diplomacy, the Soudan would irreparably have been lost to Egypt •'through' the latter’s misgover'nmeiit. Should there be a breakdown, Britain takes a stand behind the 1924 British declaration, with reserved points ensuing hel 1 unimpaired control of the Empire’s gateway.