EGYPT AND BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 73, 27 March 1930, Page 9

EGYPT AND BRITAIN

NAHAS REACHES LONDON

NEGOTIATING A TREATY

British Official Wireless. (Eeceived 27th March, 11 a.m.) EUGBY, 26th March. The Foreign Secretary, Mr. A. Henderson, together with the officials of the Foreign Office and the Egyptian Legation, to-night met tho Egyptian Prime Minister, Nahas Pasha, and other members of the Egyptian delegation who have come to London to negotiate a settlement of outstanding Anglo-Egyptian questions.

The negotiations will be based upon tho proposals for an Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, published last August, after conversations in London between Mahmud Pasha, then Egyptian Prime Min-. ister, and Mr. Henderson. These proposals were described by Mr. Henderson, in a covering letter, as representing the "extreme limit to which he could recommend the British Government to go in their desire to achieve a lasting and honourable settlement."

Nahas Pasha, who after the Egyptian Parliamentary election succeeded Mahniud Pasha as Prime Minister, issued in February a statement describing the proposed Treaty as prompted by a spirit of conciliation and received from the Egyptian Parliament a mandate to make his present journey to London to negotiate. Tho British High Commission er, Sir Percy Loraine, is already in London, and will assist in tho negotiations.