ANGLO-EGYPTIAN CONFERENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1930, Page 5

ANGLO-EGYPTIAN CONFERENCE

(British Official Wireless)

(Received this dav at TO a.m.'

RUGBY, May 7

Negotiations f; >vlitTi the Egyptian; delegations are,.being resumed again at 9 o’clock this .evening, and at. the session, until the,, .early hours of toimprrow morning. It us probable a Cabinet meetihg will be held to-mor-row morning when the position will come before the Ministers. Efforts are toeing made; ,|6 achieve some definite result to-morrow.

Mr A. Henderson (Foreign Secretary) has postponed his departure for Paris on his way to Geneva from tomorrow morning until the afternoon. The actual situation is that the matter of the Sudan is still unsettled and <ss still under discussion. At the same time discussion,is,continuing on other points, such as the question of troops in the Canal zone and points which have been raised again since the Egyptian Courier' arrived from Egypt with the observations of the Cairo Cabinet, upon 'Vefbrences being made to them. . ' !

EGYPTIAN DEMAND

(Received this day at noon.) LONDON, May 7. ' The Egyptian negotiations were con-

tin ueci this morning and this afternoon. Egyptians demand a joint ad--ministration of the Sou-clan, which BriLtain declined to concede.