BRITAIN AND EGYPT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19351, 11 December 1924, Page 9

BRITAIN AND EGYPT

FIRM POLICY ADVOCATED. HEAL TEST STILL TO COME. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 9. The Daily Mail says that the real test in Egypt is still to come. It asks whether the Government’s search, for Sir Lee Stack’s murderer was a mere make-be'ieve. “We cannot expect gratitude from a forgetful people like the Egyptians,” it says, “but we are determined to have their respect, even if it means the disbandment of the Egyptian army and the restoration of martial law.”—-Sydney Sun Cable.

PROVINCIAL GOVERNORS.

FREED FROM INTER! ERENCE

LONDON, December 9. The Cairo correspondent of The Times says: “The Gr* irnors of all the provinces attended a spt. .1 conference of Ministers, when the Prime Minister (Ziwar Pasha), who is also Minister of the Interior, delivered an important address to them. He reminded them that they were supreme, under the Ministry of the Interior, in their respective provinces, and that they must administer them without any outside interference. The Government, ho saM, looked tp them to ensure that no political propaganda was carried out unlawfully. “These injunctions obviously refer to the state of affairs existing under the previous regime, when the administrative officials were constantly interfered with by Zaghlulist senators and deputies, who seemed to consider that their parliamentary position gave them authority over tho official Government representative, who was also subjected to other outside interference. The new Government’s action should conduce to terminate a condition of things which had become intolerable both to the responsible officials and to the and it is hoped that henceforward the Egyptian Government will follow a normal and regular course, as it did prior to the Zaghlulists’ accession to power.’’—The Times. AN EGYPTIAN SIRDAR. THE PROBABLE APPOINTMENT. CAIRO, December 9. The newspaper A 1 Anram states that it has been decided to appoint an Egyptian as Sirdar of the Egyptian Army. It is understood that such a decision would naturally be in agreement with Britain and there appears to be some foundation for the statement. —Reuter.