TALKING IN CIRCLES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 965, 7 May 1930, Page 9

TALKING IN CIRCLES

EGYPT’S QUIBBLES HOLD UP CONFERENCE SEEKS MORE CONCESSIONS British Official TVireless Reed. 12.5 p.m. RUGBY, Tuesday. Negotiations with the Egyptian Delegation were continued this evening at the Foreign Office. After a long discussion, which was concerned with the Sudan, the meeting was adjourned until eight o’clocl; tomorrow morning.

This early hour has been fixed ir. view of the short time that remains for the negotiations before Mr. Arthur Henderson, Foreign Secretary, leaveon Thursday for Geneva to attend the League of Nations Council.

A Press Association message says both of today’s sessions of the AngioEgyptian Conference have been occu pied tw the Egyptians drawing con tract circles around the Sudan pro blem.

They have given the impression that they are trying to see how far they can stretch Britain’s limit of concession before smashing the conference. '

Several times during the course of the morning sitting the parties separated while the Egyptians deliberated upon some new point, none of which brought the discussions nearer finality. The conference will resume this afternoon. There still seems little sign of a solution. Tomorrow will be the vital day.