UNHAPPY EGYPT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 12, 15 January 1936, Page 7

UNHAPPY EGYPT

ARABIC PRESS ATTACKING BRITAIN WAFD OPPOSING THE UNITED FRONT? LONDON, Jan. 13. Both the Times’ and the Telegraph’s correspondents at Cairo suggest that things are not going happily with the newly-formed United Front, the chief complication being the Arabic press attacks on Britain’s participation in the Mersamatruh railway, for which Egypt is raising a loan, part of which is to be found in London, as another British method of tightening her hold on Egypt. This campaign is sponsored by those opposed to the Wafd Cabinet as distinct from the one with the United Front personnel. It is now suggested that, to thwart this amti-Govemment campaign, the Finance Minister should propose that Egypt bear the whole cost of the railway. Meanwhile, the Wafd is showing a disinclination to permit the United' Front after the election to conduct; treaty negotiations with Britain and it is even suggested that the Wafd withdraw from the United Front ’* the point is pressed, as it is seemingly convinced that the elections will giv£ it the necessary authority to negotiafte'. a treaty as the most powerful party.