AFFAIRS IN EGYPT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 26 June 1926, Page 7

AFFAIRS IN EGYPT

OUTBURST IN THE PRESS LONDON, June 16. A letter sent by the British High Commissioner in Egypt, Lord Lloyd, to Ziwar Pasha, the retiring Prime Minister, expressing Britain's recognition of his valuable work during his term of office in the interests of Anglo-Egyptian friendship, has aroused the Wafdist Liberal press to indignation bordering on hysteria, says the Cairo correspondent of the Times. In addition to castigating Ziwar Pasha as a traitor, these papers are filled with disrespectful, almost insolent, attacks on Britain.* The Egyptian Government's toleration of these particularly strong outbursts in its own organs has created a most unfortunate impression in the British circles, . It is pointed out that the hostile, altitude of the. Government's own mouthpieces toward Britain's simple appreciation of the work of furthering British and Egyplian friendship. scarcely squares with the official declaration of the new Prime Minister, Adly Pasha, ;il tin- opening of Parliament, to the effect that he desired to establish cordial lelations Ik I ween Britain and Egypt.

The point of the interjection regarding the Maltpep terrier !<• contained in the fact that Sir Gerald Strickland is a native of Malta, lie is also a member of the Malta Legislative Assembly.