BRITISH ULTIMATUM

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 341, 30 April 1928, Page 9

BRITISH ULTIMATUM

EGYPTIAN POLICE BILL NON-PASSAGE DEMANDED F +i*ed P A. —By Telegraph—- ( United BerviemJ Reed. 1.47 pm. LONDON. Sunday. The Cairo correspondent of the •’Daily Mall” states that Britain has sent an ultimatum to Egypt, demanding the non-passage of the Police Bill. A message from Cairo states that after a speech by the Prime Minister. N'ahas Pasha, a meeting of Wafd members af Parliament endorsed the polirv of the Government regarding the Assemblies Bill which is expected to be passed early next week. The British attitude toward the proposed new law* is that it will be calculated to endanger British lives by giving lattitude to armed mobs A dispatch from Berlin gives details of an interview held with Naha? Pasha by the Cairo correspondent of th f “Vossiche Zeitung.” The Prime Minister said: “Britain has no right to declare Egypt's independence, which she already enjoys. Our standpoint simply is that we never were part of the British Empire, and never wished to be. We have the best intentions toward Britain, but we will not sacri fice the independence of Egypt to imperialistic tendencies “We could not accept the treaty proposed by Britain recently because it was founded entirely on a false basis as between mistress and ser vant. The only possible treaty is one as between equals.”