EGYPT'S INDEPENDENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18019, 18 February 1922, Page 9

EGYPT'S INDEPENDENCE.

BRITAIN'S STATED TERMS.

COMPLETE AGREEMENT.

CABINET AND LORD ALLENBY.

By Tolegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 7.15 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. Feb. 17. Complete agreement regarding the policy to bo pursued in Egypt has bceu reached, as the result of conversations between Mr. Lloyd George, Lord Curzon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Viscount Allenby, High Commissioner for Egypt. The terms have not been announced, but it is understood that Lord Allenby returns to Egypt immediately, empowered to negotiate an arrangement with Sarwat Pasha, Premier of Egypt. It is belioved that Lord' Allenby hag accepted the main heads of the policy announced by the Foreign Office on January 29, with a compromise regarding garrisons.

The statement issued by the Foreign Office on January 29 declared that the British Government, while unwilling to cede to dsorder or violence, what it was prepared to grant on it* own merits, expressed its readiness to invite Parliament to terminate the protectorate and to recognise the existence of Egypt as a sovereign State on the following conditions :—That the Imperial communications to which Egypt is essent al are assured; that Britain retain the ri'-'ht and piwer to protect foreign communities in Egypt, and that Egvpt is safeguarded against all foreign aggression or interference.

When an agreement embodying these conditions was arrived at between the F.vrptian Government and Britain, the British Government would invite Parliamentary sanction.