EGYPT’S FUTURE.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1922, Page 5

EGYPT’S FUTURE.

TENSION RELIEVED. FORMING A MINISTRY. CHANGED SITUATION. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 3, 7.35 p.m. Cairo, March 2. The Sultan, when charging Sarwat Pasha to form a Ministry, said: “Britain’s termination of the protectorate realised our dearest wishes, and is the result of the national effort which we always encouraged and supported.” Sarwat Pasha pointed out that it was impossible to form a Ministry so long as Britain maintained her former policy, but the new proclamation had profoundly changed the situation. Sarwat Pacha’s formation of a Ministry, following upon Lord Allenby’s return and the announcement of the British policy, resulted in a demonstration in the extremists’ districts of Cairo, in which the native military arrested twenty-five persons. The situation has become a struggle between the Ministerialists and the extremists, and the former are optimistic as to their ability to control the situation’. They propose immediately to draft the constitution and arrange an early election of the politically supreme Legislative Council. Sarwat Pasha has appealed fbr the co-operation of the best elements in order to establish a united and independent Egypt.—Aus.-N.Z. 'Cable Assn.