EGYPTIAN TREATY

Northern Advocate, 7 May 1930, Page 5

EGYPTIAN TREATY

LONDON POURPARLERS SUDAN HALTING PLACE. BREAKDOWN THREATENS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 3 p.m.) LONDON, May 6. Soon after the two Egyptian emissaries landed from Cairo yesterday afternoon the air was full of rumours that a breakdown of the Anglo-Egypt-ian Conference was imminent, on the question of the Sudan. The Australian Press Association is definitely informed that this' is the only outstanding point on which the Egyptians are seeking more than last year’s draft treaty conceded.

There are indications that Nahas Pasha is disposed to “swallow the lock,” with the reservation that within a brief period, and subject to Egypt fulfilling her new role worthily, the question of the Sudan should be reviewed, with the object of giving Egypt a greater measure of control, but at least three of his Wafdist colleagues in London are completely truculent thereon, as they feel it the soundest basis of. a rupture and most likely to raise Wafd prestige in Egypt.

Mr Arthur Henderson and his colleagues, however, are immovable and are opposed to the thesis that Egypt and the Sudan are ethnologically one. They pointed out that but for British aid and diplomacy the Sudan would irreparably have been lost to Egypt, through the latter’s mismanagement. Should there be a breakdown, Britain takes her stand behind .the 1924 British declaration, with reserved points ensuring her unimpaired control of the Empire’s gateway. NO NEARER SOLUTION. FATEFUL DAY AT HAND. (Received 12.12 p.m.) LONDON. May 6. Both, today’s sessions of the AngloEgyptian Conference have been occupied by the Egyptians drawing con-1 centric circles around the Sudan prob-1 lem. They have given the impression that they are trying to see how far they can stretch Britain’s limit of concession before (smashing the conference. Several times during the course of the morning sitting the parties separated while the Egyptians deliberated upon some new point, none of which .brought the discussions nearer finality. The conference will resume this afternoon. There is still little sign of a solution. Tomorrow will be the vital day.