SUEZ AND THE SUDAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 30 June 1924, Page 9

SUEZ AND THE SUDAN.

Is Britain’s Control Weakening? EGYPTIAN FEELINGS' AROUSES, By (fibfe —Press Association—-Uopyrish-V (.Received b.b, p.m.,. dune 29.) JAEnDuAv,, inmc 27. Lord Per .moor'a statement vm-L regard to the oudan is practically unanimously approved- by toe Umw>li i'iOSS.Ivhile some writers fire of epimm, that Znglul Pasha,- in view at Ms «n compromising latitude, sltoukl abanoon his visit to London, outers wlnm there is room /or adjustment ;n iix. administration which eaa conveniently by discussed with Aaglul Pasha in London. Gabo’s vernacular press publishes columns of protests against Lord }’armour's statement from places throughout- Egypt,

A lingo demonstration of sympathy has been pinlined In Cairo. ' Zaglul Pasha Buid tho friends of England in Egypt wore ashamed of Lord Parmoor’r, declaration, which had increased the anger of the Anglophobia, and inode agreement difficult.[ln a recent debate in tho House ol Lords, Earl Grey insisted that in the forthcoming negotiation!? the Government should make it quite clear that the Egyptian Government had no nay at all in the question of the Sudan. Tho only oxceptioln must be tho question of the Nile waters, which he acknowledged wns a case for a joint Egyptian and Sudanese commission. Earl Grey attributed the Egyptians' bold nttempt as regards tho Sudan in tho impression that we bad been on the run in Egypt. He considered the questions of Egypt, tho Sudan, and Iraq wero inter-dependent, and he earnestly urged the Government to give careful consideration to Iraq on military grounds. He prefaced a striking speech by a statement that he did not know whether his views represented those of tho Liberal Party. Lord Pnrmoor (representing tho Government) said that the Government did not intend going back on the past British policy in-Egypt. The AngloIraq Treaty, of which Earl Grey had expressed distaste, would be submitted to Parliament before ratification. Tho purpose of tbo treaty with Iraq is to give Britain authority to control the Mesopotamia frontier. A significant clause embodied a British undertaking to use all rood offices ■ “to secure the admission of Trnq to membership of the League of Nations as soon as possible.”) \