EGYPTIAN TREATY HAS DISTINCT ADVANTAGES

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 81, 10 August 1929, Page 6

EGYPTIAN TREATY HAS DISTINCT ADVANTAGES

MORE PERMANENT CONTROL OE SUEZ CANAL. DO3HNIONS BEING KEPT IN TOUCH. .(Received 9.5 a.nr u ) ... .... LONDON, August 9. / Arising from Mr Bruce's Egyptian comments it is authoritatively stated that both the. Foreign and Colonial offices are convinced that tlje treaty is specially advantageous to - Australia and New Zealand because lit ensures both a greater and more permanent control of the canal than was possible previously. In a sense the British troops will be ■ entitled to establish a line of military protection approximately twenty" five miles west of the canal. The Imperial authorities contend that the resolutions carried at the 1926 Imperial Conference regarding consultation with the Dominions will be carried out. Mr Bruce and Sir Joseph Ward will be fully informed step by step of every actual or pros- • pective . development.— Australian Pres s Assn.