BRITAIN AND EGYPT

Evening Star, Issue 19709, 9 November 1927, Page 5

BRITAIN AND EGYPT

CONVERSATIONS CONCLUDED SARWAT PASHA EXPRESSES APPRECIATION. (British Official News.) Pres* Association—By Wireless—Copyright. RUGBY, November 8. (Received November 9, at noon.) It is understood that during the visit of Sarwat Pasha to London the British Government has placed him in possession of information regarding the measures taken by it to safeguard the vital interests of Egypt and the Sudan in the waters of the Nile. Sarwat left London this morning for Cairo. Sir Austen Chamberlain was at tho station to bid him farewell. In a statement to the Press, Sarwat said that the purpose of his visit had been to resume with tho Foreign Secretary the conversations begun in July. He added: “I cannot but bo pleased by the spirit of cordiality which has been shown in them. 1 found on Sir Austen’s part tho greatest readiness to arrive at a conciliation of Egyptian and English points of view. Whatever the result of onr conversations may lie as to eventual negotiations, I am sure that they will prove of tho greatest help towards the establishment of a good understanding between tho two countries.”