TREATY WITH EGYPT

Evening Star, Issue 20257, 19 August 1929, Page 9

TREATY WITH EGYPT

MR CHURCHILL'S DOUBTS NOT CAPABLE OF SELF-GOVERNMENT Presa Association—By Telegraph— Copyright VANCOUVER, August 16. Discussing the proposed treaty between Britain and Egypt, Mr Winston Churchill said he had the gravest misgivings, as ho doubted whether the Egyptian people, were any more capable of assuming the full responsibility of governing themselves to-day than they were fifty years ago, when Britain stepped in. Certain public services had been turned over by'Britain to Egypt, and in almost every instance. whethe in irrigation or other forms of service, they had deteriorated under Egyptian management.—Australian Press Association. MILITARY FORCES. PROPOSED REDUCTION. LONDON, August 18, "While a definite decision has not been reached regarding the force to be maintainc in Egypt when the new agreement operates. the * Sunday Times ’ understands that the Cairo Infantry Brigade will probably be sent Home and the Cavalry Brigade reduced to one regiment The reductions will total three-fifths of the present forces, leaving 1,000 men.—Australian Press Association. QUESTION OF RATIFICATION, PARIS, August 9. “ It is too risky to attempt to foresee the future,” the Prime Minister Mahmona Pasha, replied to 1 Le Journal’s ’ inquiry as to whether the Egyptian Parliament would ratify' the treaty with Britain. Ho saic' lie diet not see a resemblance in tin l maintenance of troops in the canal zone to their ihilitary occupation of Egypt, since the canal zone was distant from the big Egyptian centres Ho regarded the future optimistically.