EGYPT TO BE RULED NEXT THREE YEARS SANS PARLIAMENT

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6667, 21 July 1928, Page 7

EGYPT TO BE RULED NEXT THREE YEARS SANS PARLIAMENT

Necessary Disturbing , s Influences be Curbed KING AND CABINET TAKE OYER POWER Aust. Press Assn.—United Service. Received Friday, 5.5 p.m, CAIRO, July 20. A Royal Decree was Issued last evening dissolving the Chamber and Senate for three years, aitet which Cabinet will decide regarding fresh elections, The Government will meanwhile he, conducted In accordance with Article 88 of the Constitution providing that the King shall govern with" the assistance of his Ministers. The Article of the Constitution referring to the freedom of the press is also suspended. - . v ■ The Ministry’s letter to King Fuad I. advising the dissolution says that Cabinet after a lengthy study of the situation found no* alternative but to concentrate bn ridding the country of factitious influences. A normal course could not be resumed unless the public were made aware of realities and understood that the breach between the Parties had been provoked artificially to benefit a small group which had not ceased in its ef- ; forts to monopolise power and make co-operation a sham. If had abandoned itself-a Party spirit most dangerous 1 'to the public interests. The Ministry during the suspension of ;tho Parliamentary regime undertakes, to establish a reign of justice, assure equality, uphold liberty and within the limits of the law carry out reforms. . . ’ A London mesage states that British official circles have declined to comment on King Fuad's decree. It is stated the British Residency at Cairo had nothing to do wit hthe measure, which is entirely a matter of Egyptian domestio policy: