BRITAIN AND EGYPT

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1352, 12 March 1928, Page 3

BRITAIN AND EGYPT

THE UTMOST LIMITS BRITAIN’S PART IN TREATY “INABILITY TO APP RECI ATE 'REALITIES” (Aust. and N.Z. Cable). Rugby, March 0. The Home Secretary, Sir William J.oynson.Hieks, in. a, speech last night said that the I2gyptia.ii Government in rejecting the treaty had displayed almost incredible foll.v and total inability to appreciate realities. Britain had gone to the utmost limits in negotiating with them, for no British Government would ever he prepared to jeopardise British inter, ests by acceding to demands for further concessions* with regard to the immediate' future oi Egypt, and Great Britain would automatically revert to the position created by the declaration of 1922. The treaty was at an end. The Note that herd Lloyd delivered on helialf ol the British Government, which was entirely 'responsible for its terms, said that in a matter of this kind there were no party questions whatever. The late Labour Government and

Mr Ramsay MacDonald had been just as firm as the Government of today.—British official wireless.