MAKING TROUBLE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 3 June 1927, Page 5

MAKING TROUBLE

EGYPTIAN POLITICIANS.

MOTIVE FOR MOVEMENT.

HOPES OF A SETTLEMENT.

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION- -COPYRIGHT

LONDON, June 2. While expressing his inability to make a declaration, the Egyptian Premier, Sarwat Pasha, in a message to the “Morning Post,” says there is every reason to hope, thanks to the spirit of good understanding and mutual confidence which governs the nations of the two countries, that a solution of the crisis will not long be delayed. The “Morning Post’s” Cairo correspondent says what is really behind the agitation is King Fuad’s pending visit to England. The Zagloujists are striving ' theii utmost to render his departure difficult, fearing he will arrange a compromise. A political problem, in the broadest sense, does not exist in Egypt, where the vast bulk of the people are peaceable and want only to be left alone to attend l to the cultivation of cotton, but a handful of pseudo-politicians, headed by Zaghloul, is making difficulties where none exist.

EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT TRYING TO GAIN TIME.

CAIRO, June 1. The Egyptian Press vigorously urges the rejection of the British demands on. the grounds that Great Britain has no right to interfere. The indications are, however, that the Chamber will favour a compromise. Anglo-foreign circles insist that an unconditional acceptance of the British Note is the only possible policy. It is pointed out that the Egyptian, Government has had ample opportunity of offering an alternative solution, ‘ but so far has merely directed its tactics to gaining time, not intending sincerely to face the situation.