MAY PRODUCE CONFLICT

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 4 May 1928, Page 9

MAY PRODUCE CONFLICT

ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SITUATION FEARS VOICED BY LABOUR. OBJECTION TO ULTIMATUM. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATIONUNITED SERVICE.) Received 1. 30 p.m. to-day. LONDON, May 3. The Parliamentary Labour Party, after a meeting at which Mr. Ramsay MacDonald presided, issued a . statement that while four reserved points were still- outstanding the AngloEgyptian controversy may at any moment produce a conflict. Labourites’ apprehensions nave been increased by the British ultimatum and threat of armed forces which the Labourites strongly condemn as wholly unsuited to the situation and calculated to leave feelings inimical to the -relations desired with Egypt. The statement urges Britain tq- repeat the assurances of 7.922. The reserved points should be subject to- an agreement enabling Egypt to make negotiations thereon and also to" become i member of the League of Nations whereby the security of Imperial communications and the Suez Canal may be placed on an international and unassailable foundation.