UNEASY POSITION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 31 May 1927, Page 5

UNEASY POSITION.

POLITICS IN EGYPT,

ANTI-BRITISH DEMONSTRATION

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.

CAIRO, May 30. Lord Lloyd has had a lengthy audience with King Faud. It is understood he informed the King he had received the British Government’s approval of his (Lord Lloyd’s) views concerning the reorganisation of the Egyptian army, and, he had sent an official note to the Prime Minister, Sarwat Pasha, thereon. Meanwhile, there is considerable tension in political circles which apprehend a serious crisis. As stated the Wafd, which controls the policy of Sarwat’s Cabinet, is determined to stand firm. Tfie studied, scurrilous insolence of the speeches in the Chamber gives the debate the appearance of a deliberate attempt to vilify Great Britain in the eyes of the lellahin, also to inflame public opinion in the hope of .securing support for resistance to any steps which Great Britain may take to enforce her point of view. The foreign communities generally are ready to support any action tending to end activities which they recognise are likely to not only endanger British interests but seriously to affect their own position if allowed to continue.

Local notables regard as a serious feature of an ominous situation the fact that Zaghlul occupied the chair of the Chamber throughout the disgraceful proceedings without making any attempt to curb the immoderate language used. Doubtless, knowing a crisis in the Egyptian army is imminent, the Zaghlulists, who always stage-manage debates beforehand have made up their minds to arrange this anti-British demonstration in order to strengthen their position in the country and with representative Egyptians outside politics.