AFFAIRS IN EGYPT

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19983, 18 July 1930, Page 11

AFFAIRS IN EGYPT

ATTACK ON mm FUAD. THE} «dai&y BIPED'S" SHARQES, (liinT:e» ?a«M *lectwo TVMICKAP9- -eorjwpH?.) (Selves' j tt i y i^ 3o p. m .) LONPQN, July 17. The "PaJ|y Herajd" has a remarkable attack qn King ffuad, whom it SRlls Fuad." It says that he Consistently plotted against Parliamentary Government, and tried in every Underhand way to destroy the chance* of a. friepdly settlement between Great Britain and Egypt. The British Government will, however, safeguard the ayes and property of foreigners, but will not allow either force or influence to be used in support of the King against the peoplp, BRITISH ATTITUDE OF NEUTRALITY. INSTRUCTIONS TO HIGH COJIMISSIONER. (BB|Tipa OTHCUL WIBELBSS.) EUGBY, July 16. The Prime Minister (Mr Ramsay Mac Donald), in the Commons, Wftg ajkgd. bv the keafler of the Opposition (Mr Stanley Baldwin) if be could make a statement regarding Egypt. |le sa}d: "As early as 4th, when the pre? sent constitutional crisis in Egypt first showed signs of developing, his Majesr ty's Government instructed the High Commissioner (Sir Percy Loraine) that bis attitude i»U9t he ene ef strict nour trality, though, consistently with that position, |t was left tq bis discretion to, remind both parties to tht dispute thai we at this end were doing all in our power I© maintain the good atmosphere ia which the treaty negotiations hal terminated. "Sir Percy Loraine made statements in this sense bpth to King Fuad and to Naha« Pasha, who expressed his gratification. Since the formation of the present Government, Sir Percy Loraine has made it Clear that his Majesty's Government intended to adhere to Us attitude of neutrality and nonintervention in whftt appeared, to It to be purely an internal issue for the Egyptians themselves to decide. No other Bttv tude was possible, consistent with the declared intention of his Majesty'« Govr ernment in 1P32, and we shall continue to maintain it to an extent compatible with our international responsibilities. «'Before the news of the deplorable events in Alexandria had reached London, the High Commissioner had been instructed to make it quite plain that his Majesty's Government did not in tend to be used as an instrument for an attack on the Egyptian Constitution, and in consequence it could be no party to any alteration to the electoral law, even if precluded by the declaration of 193S from actual intervention in an internal Issue of this patwre."

ROSPJTAk ATTACKED BY MOa (Beeoived July 17th, 6.23 p.m.) ALEXANDRIA. July 16. Several members of the Wafd Com. inittee liavp been arrested pending an enquiry into the disturbances. The. mob t<)4av stoned a hospital.Jn consequence of the, authorities' refusal to allow the removal for public burial of the bodies pf those killed in the riots. PROTECTION OF FOREIGNERS. 3RITI3H WARSHIPS ORDERED TO ALEXANDRIA, {vrrtnp r**s« aßsociatioi*-*bi tixvtpjc TBI^6RABH-"-eOBTOI(3BT.l LONDON, J«ly J«/ In the IJaujo of Commons, Mr Ranway MaeDonald said that In view of the men? aoe to foreign life and property in A l ?*- andrift twq warships had been prdered there, These were the Queen Elisabeth and the ftam.llUes, He added that the High Commissioner in Egypt (Sir Percy Leroine), in view of yesterday's events, had informed Nahas Pasha that he vouid be held responsible, with the Egyptian Government, for the protection of foreign lives and property, TBS CASUALTY LIST, CAIRO, July 16. It if officially announced that the QfianaUlei in the Alexandria riote included one European and 13 natives killed and eight Europeans and 113 natives injured- t . The Italian ConanJ has protested against the death of an Italian from heart failure after a blow on the head, ■ ■ill liii.iiiii mill-