AFFAIRS OF EGYPT.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 211, 5 September 1924, Page 5

AFFAIRS OF EGYPT.

DIVERGENCE OF VIEWS.

LONDON, September 4. The Cairo correspondent of the "Morning Post" reports that well-informed circles state that Zaghlul Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt, is returning to Egypt on September 22. It is'assorted that Zaghlul will not enter into negotiations in London. His reason is said to be that divergence ofviews between Britain and Egypt Would render, a discussion useless. —(A. and N,Z. Cable.) 7 Mr.'MacDonald has followed the _raditional British policy of unwavering fidelity to the fair and honourable policy established by the great men to whom the Egyptian people owe all modern blessings. King Fuad's Minister of War is quietly demobilising across the fr6ntier the mutinous battalion which caused the clash With British troops at Atbara several weeks ago. Egyptian of--.ra have tried and sentenced some of the rioters, While the disobedient cadets, who held an anti-British demonstration, and afterwards refused to surrender their arms, are in open arrest and will be tried by court-martial. The tribes everywhere arc quiet, despite the Egyptian propaganda. Sir Ernest Budge points Out that the Egyptians never conquered the Sudan. Their alleged conquests, since the year 3000 8.C., he says, were a repeated and interrupted series Of raids for slaves and loot, which all Egyptians Bought in the Sudan. "It is our duty to see that never again do the Egyptians seek them by their traditional methods," says the "Times," quoting the declaration of a Sudanese official that the handing over of the Sudanese to the Egyptians Would amount to a. re-establishment of slaver trade in its.'.worst form, and make Britain responsible for atrocities as bad as any in history. The Sudanese would have no redress, and no means even of bringing their sufferings to the knowledge of the civilised world. They could neither read nor write, nnd would sittply revert dumbly to the misery and silence from which we delivered them.