BRITAIN AND EGYPT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21019, 7 May 1930, Page 11

BRITAIN AND EGYPT

NEGOTIATIONS FOR- TREATY. AN OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. NO SOLUTION OF DEADLOCK. (United Press Association.) ‘ (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) i LONDON, May 5. The Foreign Office announces that no solution of the Egyptian deadlock has been found, nor is any within sight. EARLIER MESSAGES. THE SUDAN DIFFICULTY. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 5. Negotiations with the Egyptian delegation were resumed at the Foreign Office thi- evening. Mr A. Henderson (Foreign Secretary) was accompanied by Lord Thomson (Secretary for Air), Lord Passi field (Secretary for the Dominions), Dr I Dalton (Parliamentary Under-secretary for -Foreign Affairs), Sir Robert Vansit- | tart (Permanent Under-secretary for , Foreign Affairs), and Sir Percy Loraine I (High Commissioner in Egypt). The | situation created by the reference to | Cairo of certain matters by the Egyptian delegation was considered, and after conversations lasting for two hoiys and a-half the negotiations were adjourned until to- | morrow^moming. It is understood that there is still difficulty over the Sudan and over one or two other points. , ONE, POINT OUTSTANDING. LONDON, May 5. Soon after the two Egyptian emissaries landed from Cairo this afternoon the air was full of rumours of a breakdown of the Anglo-Egyptian Conference being imminent on the question of the Sudan. The Australian Press Association was definitely informed that this was the only outstanding point, on whicu the Egyptians are seeking more than last year’s draft treaty conceded. There are indications that Nahas Pasha is disposed to swallow the leek, with the reservation that withifa 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 Egypta greater measure of control, but at least three of his Wnfdist colleagues in London are completely truculent on the point, as they feel that it is the soundest basis for a rupture and is. most likely to raise the Wafd prestige in Egypt, Mr 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 j3udan would irreparably have been lost to Egypt through the latter’s misgovernment. Should there be a breakdown Britain will take her stand behind the 1924 British declaration, with the reserved points ensuring the unimpaired control of the Empire’s gateway.