DIFFICULTY STILL

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 964, 6 May 1930, Page 9

DIFFICULTY STILL

EGYPT TREATY TALKS NOT COMPLETE LONG SITTING YESTERDAY Reed. noon. RUGBY, Monday. Negotiations with the Egyptian delegation were resumed at the Foreign Office this evening. Mr. Arthur Henderson, Foreign Secretary, was accompanied by Lord Thomson, Secretary for Air, Lord Passfield, Secretary for the Dominions, Mr. Hugh Dalton, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Sir Robert Vansittart, Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and Sir Percy Loraine, High Commissioner in Egypt. The situation created by the reference to Home by the Egyptian delegation was considered, after conversations lasting two and a-lialf hours. Then negotiations were adjourned until tomorrow morning.

It is understood there is still difficulty over the Sudan and over one or two other points. BREAKDOWN RUMOURS

Soon after two Egyptian emissaries landed from Cairo this afternoon the air was full of rumours of a breakdown in the conference on the question of the Sudan.

The Australian and New Zealand Press Association was definitely informed that 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 with the reservation that within a brief period and subject to Egypt fulfilling her new role worthily, the question of the Sudan should be reviewed with the object of'giving Egypt a greater measure of control. But at least three of his Wafdist colleagues in London are completely truculent on this. They feel it is the soundest basis of a rupture, and the likeliest to raise Wafd prestige in Egypt. Mr. Henderson and his colleagues, however, are immovable and are opposed to the thesis that Egypt and the Sudan are ethnologically one. They point out that but for British aid and diplomacy, the Sudan would irreparably have been lost to Egypt through the latter’s misgovernment. Should there be a breakdown, Britain takes a stand behind the 1924 British declaration, ’ with reserved points ensuring her unimpaired control of the Empire’s gateway.