EGYPTIAN SITUATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 3105, 24 December 1921, Page 5

EGYPTIAN SITUATION.

ZAGHLUL PASHA ARRESTED. MILITARY CALLED OUT. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received December 24. 9.55 a.m. CAIRO, Dec. 23. General Allcnby has issued a proclama lion prohibiting the banks and other institutions without his permission. advancing money held on behalf of Zaghlul Pasha or his. co-delegates. As Zaghlul Pasha refused to obey the order to retire to hia country house he was arrested. Mobs are parading the town and smashing windows. The military have ken called out to assist the police.—A. and N.Z. cable.

FAILURE OF NEGOTIATIONS. TWO DEMONSTRATORS KILLED. CAIRO, Dee. 22, The situation is developing favourably to Z'ftghlul Pasha, with a conesponding weakening "f the moderate in luonce, owing to the failure of the Angle Egyptian negotiations

The. Sultan has not up to the present accepted the resignation of the Premier, ■\dly Pasha, who persists in declaring thai he 'will participate in the Government. 'J he political deadlock therefore continues. Addressing students tit the Saidieh secondary school, who are striking, Zaghlul Pasha advocated non-co-operation on the lines of Gandhiisrn 'A Inter message slates thai Hie military authorities have forbidden the Nationalist leader. Zaghlul Pasha, to in any wise participate hi politics and ordered him. with eight of his most prominent, supporter-.. to return to their villages. The orders were disobeyed, hence they leave under military escort early on .Friday. Excited crowds gathered in the vicinity of Zaghlul's house and elsewhere. Two demonstrators wove killed and six wounded by gunshots I. collisions with the police. —A. and N.Z. cable. BR EAKIXIWN OF N F.GOTIATIONS. LONDON, Dec. 4. The Sunday Time- publishes exclusively the story of ih.' breakown of the Anglo Egyptian negotiations, and adds to the diplomatic comment its follows:--"The maintenance of the veto is essential. Great Britain could not guarantee integrity if the Sultan's Cabinet was at liberty lo pursue n foreign policy prejudicial to British interests. The delegation baffled all negotiations by refusing privileges lo the Digit Commissioner. Imagine the representative of the Lower responsible for the country - integrity and safety following in the wake of the repre.-entative of Siani ! Again, no foreign \'«\\v\- is. likely to surrender the capitulations privileges until the Administration is capable of guaranteeing order and the protection of life and properly, which the Alexandria riots showed is impossible at present. 1 ' Tin- Sunday Times urges that the Canal /.one is insalubrious for troop.-, and, more over, opens the way to complications threatening our Imperial communications. The Government intends lo promote the recommendations of Lord Allenby as far as practicable.