EGYPT RESTIVE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 79, 3 April 1928, Page 7

EGYPT RESTIVE.

FOREIGNERS ANXIOUS Proposed Arms Law » Causes Concern. ELECTION PROBABLE. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, April 2. The diplomatic correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says he understands that the Note from the Egyptian Government to Britain has made a very bad impression on the British High Commissioner for Egypt, Lord Lloyd.

He has expressed himself in very plain terms to the Prime. Minister of Egypt, Nahas Pasha.

Lord Lloyd's feelings are fully shared by officials in London who had hoped j that Nahas, once ] ho was in office, ! f would show a ! keener sense of his S responsibility. It | is possible that he j may concentrate on i domestic problems i rather than provoke a direct issue between London and dairo, says the correspondent. His Note, however, niay be a prelude to a general elec-

of frenzied Chauvinism. In the absence of protection for the foreign communities in Egypt the Powers will never agree to a curtailment of their capitulatory rights. Indeed the foreign communities in Egypt are as much concerned as the British communities as regards Egypt's legislative proposals, particularly the "arms law, which will enable almost anyone to carry lethal weapons.