ANGLO-EGYPTIAN QUESTIONS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19690, 6 August 1929, Page 9

ANGLO -EGYPTIAN QUESTIONS.

IfOPOBKD SF I'TLEMENT.

0lU»lori> PASHA'S APPEAL.

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H.* aunt' 1 ." «-d ih.it tho Foreign glrMtii' *1 r Aithur Henderson. this* ' i tm.ii interview with

0, i', • M i mstcr of Egypt, 1• 1 •> and repui unl |g lini Ih> Cabinet subIgmifljll<v" kid t ompleted their ggmi* 1,,f " 'h* i»ro|Hi!»a:» tor ii lasting »w;f !" 1 .i«4» te settlement of the .M ' '.in 'juration The text of dM V*' I 1 •* >•! be published in a (p* da*' Tb. I niiin Prime Mi n tster, who !** I'M;*)! 1 I ■ -ti.;.>ii t'oi the lust few wk» ' bH during that tune had "'inirsiiioni al the Foreign <*»<«• ■■<ni>g London <>d Mondnv .•a « »Jh«>r t ■> i' t. to France, HeexpecU £jo> r**f > ■■ Egypt towards the end ti

Ji ■- ■ * ( I from Cairo that Mnhftwu 1 ' P • ban telegraphed nil appeal t* lh* f • mi |K'oplc announcing (jlflt. • t if' and difficult negotiat)«*u li« bun »ni<*e«eded in obtaining » »-.-!!! on i tic ba,is of m friendly ! ufi't. r-t iri ling

H* ' ii: 'ul that tb# British Govern- * j nincervlv aiijumm to meet m hojH*» and anpira lion# an long mi tJ»»i »«•!.• compatible with the pro(CMitat of th.- Sue?, (.'aridl and othet Briti«' inwr<*tt lie believed that if tftw f-r [» «-U »cr« examine) in • spirit ■4 .rfbtened patriot i*m they would fee I- •»."! far to eniwd the former pro■Mkl * I "*i rii ban Pre** A mux: ia t ton, UVI ireta*.

Gri-n v Ursiuin ami France assumed §®«ir<»l nf Egypt in 1871), tforc««l the EJw <\i-, UtmiMl to abdicate, and up Ci A*-1 !>-» »«ii, Tewfik, to succeed rti.- rtformn then instituted were tW > «*guniifig of the changes which Uritaji* ha* brought About in the coun try tn IMS Arabi Pasha headed a Ml i v r volt, which wu quelled by I h a! • ipwiltion, and in 'IBB3 the iaa i i >1 was abolished, Great Hri t«ut> »'f fig on alone, the expeditionHry t in remaining a* an army of oe•ttfut u Egypt became technically a •«*»> t« l. ( «n4eat tributary State of the Kmpirt. Inc In Hiah occupation continued H»tll th* outbreak of the Great War, •tin ttini Khedive Abbas 1.1. declared §tb ayaipathiM were with Turkey. He «mm ami llumein Kami) made On November 18th, when a "fiats i«i> army was headed for Gaza, Britain «!»«li*red a protectorate over ■gjrpt, which was taken from the SmwrfUiity of Turkey. On the death of Bmmlii ia 1917 his brother Fuad sucMmlml hint. iflw lb* war til* Nationaliata caused Vamiat throughout Bgypt, demanding com {'"it* independence, and Britain fn o ia«4 am Inereaaed measure of aelfgm *ruwat. In 108S the British Pro u* rat* waa abolished, Britain reserving «rrt«ta rights involving the safety ♦ ' ••(♦iiimuiiieatioiis, the defence of Kgrft against foreign aggression, the (Hrotrrtion of foreign interests in Egypt and Dm guarantee of British interests in th* Mtidan. The British Foreign Secr*»f,»rv intimated that the termination of th< Protectorate involved no change in Egypt's status towards other Powers ais.i the British Government would re-d*r-1 as unfriendly any attempted int«rf>ri>nc« in the affairs of Egypt by Power and would repel any aggrcMton upon Egyptian territory. In April, King Fuad signed a new < declaring Kgypt a sovereign IPn-e Ht*t<- and indet>endent.

1 nrgotiHtionii proceeded beHntatn and Egypt for a new (mat*. but were unsuccessful, and In Aj-itj t»«-o UiUa were presented to the t i tiars i'n rliamvat which, the British «i.ivfr#inrci held, would weaken the aduiini»tratir* authorities who were re•r.>b«)i:i<- for the maintenance of order *l.-1 ))»• protection of life and property is fcoj.t. On April 2»th Britain deli > er. «J «u ultimatum and ordered Ave to Egyptian waters, and the HjU» wt-ni dropped. On July MHh the ag dowlved the Chamber o# Deputise **tl the Henate and suspended Par)i*n>oiif for three yean, legislation J-WiiiU by royal decree. The present (*aMa*t wm formed shortly before this. JhUfcaMwl P<tah«, the Prime Minister, Is a graduate of Oxford and a member #f t ii'j W'Afd (extreme Nationalist) party (taring the past 43 years, during watch Uu tain has been actively enlaged in the interests of the eountry, irrigation system has been enor•owly improved, and In the last eight jwra land has trebled in value.