NO AGREEMENT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 5 March 1928, Page 5

NO AGREEMENT.

4. ■ EGYPT REJECT'S TREATY. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, March 3. fiarwat Pasha, the Prime Minister of Egypt, has- notified the High Commissioner, Lord Lloyd, that the Egyptian Governinent has decided no agreement is possible ori the lines indicated by Britain, states the Cairo correspondent if the “Daily- Elxpress.” Both the Wafd and the Liberal Constitutional Parties Avere in favour of the rejection, of the British proposals. The newspaper “M.okattjm,” in making this announcement, said Sarwat probably would refrain from publicity living details of his conversations with Sir Austen 'Chamberlain and would merely inform Lord Lloyd that there was no prospect of the draft agreement being signed. Having done that it was expected that Sarwat would resign. The chief points in proposed new treaty, according to an Egyptian newspaper, were: (L) British trooph to continue to be stationed in the Canal zone;-(2) aerodromes to remain in British hands; (3) the foreign affairs of Egypt to continue to be conducted under British supervision; (4) the Sudan condominium to continue under the British and Egyptian Governments pending the conclusion of a new special treaty. EGYPT’S' MISFORTUNE. SIR, AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN'S COMMENT. PARIS, March 3. Sir Austen Chamberlain, intervioAved to-day Avhile en route to the meeting of the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva, said he considered that Egypt’s rejection of the ti-caty Avas a misfortune, but it xvas Egypt’s, not Britain’s misfoi-tune, that the extremist influence prevailed. It Avas an honest, generous attempt to reconcile Egyptian aspirations to the vital needs of "the British Empire. EGYPTIAN PRIME MINISTER RESIGNS. CAIRO, March 4. SarAvat Pasha has resigned, ostensibly for health reasons. —A.P.A and “Sun.’’