EGYPT POLITICAL CRISIS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 782, 1 October 1929, Page 9

EGYPT POLITICAL CRISIS

PROPOSED TREATY WITH

BRITAIN DELICATE SITUATION Australian and N.Z. Press Association LONDON, Monday. The "Daily Chronicle’s” Cairo correspondent says there are indications that the political crisis in connection with the proposed Anglo-Egyptian treaty will end tomorrow. Even the Wald Party feels that it cannot be allowed to continue. King Fuad spent some hours in conversation with Mustapha, president of the Wafd Party, after a luncheon at the house of Sir Percy Loraine, High Commissioner for Egypt. British officials have been in communication with the Prime Minister, Mahmoud Pasha, suggesting that the cleavage between the Wafd and the Cabinet is decreasing. The Wafd wishes to have free elections for the new Parliament on the basis of universal suffrage with a neutral Cabinet in office during the elections. On the other hand, the Government favours a coalition Cabinet for the purpose. Members of the Ministry, however, say they have no desire to remain in office if there is a certitude of the proposed treaty with Britain being ratified. It is widely recognised that the important thing is to have the treaty accepted, so common sense and goodwill: are likely to prevail.