OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20522, 25 September 1928, Page 9

OBITUARY

SARWAT PASHA. FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF EGYPT. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) PARIS, September 22. The death is announced of Sarwat Pasha, formerly Prime Minister of Egypt, —Australian Press Association. ACCORDED A STATE FUNERAL. ALEXANDRIA, September 23, (Received Sept. 24, at 5.5 p.m.) Posterity will accord Sarwat Pasha first place in Egypt’s post-war history as it ewes to him entirely the present political status and constitutional regime. Egypt mourns him not only as the winner of great concessions, but the single Egyptian on whom hopes for the future were reposed. He will receive a State funeral. —Australian Press Association. Sarwat Pasha became Prime Minister of Egypt in 1927, and resigned in March of this year. Ostensibly his resignation was on the grounds of ill-health, but it was generally acknowledged that it was because of the rejection of the treaty which he negotiated with Britain. Sarwat had been to England to confer with Britain regarding the treaty, but the Chamber refused to ratify it. Nahas Pasha, leader of the Wafd and Sarw T at’s successor, declared that Egypt wished to stand on an equal footing with Britain and would not accept any restrictions on her independency.