RULE IN EGYPT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 102, 1 May 1936, Page 7

RULE IN EGYPT

BOY KING’S MINORITY REGENCY COUNCIL TO ACT ELECTIONS THIS WEEK [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! CAIRO, April 29. , Following the death of King Fuad, Cabinet has decided to exercise the | Royal prerogative until after the elections on Saturday, when a Regency Council will l>c formed to rule the conn, try during the boy King’e minority. A draft agreement approved by King Fuad as one of his last designed to remove the grievance that the country had derived very little benefit from ‘he Suez Canal, provides that Egypt shall receive 200,000 Egyptian pounds a year, and shall have two directors on the board. There wi’l be a progressive increase in the number of Egyptians on the staff. The draft awaits the acceptance of the board. The value of the Egyptian pound in sterling is £1 0s 6 l-sd. STUDENT KING , ESCORTS ON RETURN HOME [ British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, April 29. When the newly-proclaimed King of Egypt, who came to England last October as a student, leaves to-morrow for home two British destroyers will accompany the Channel steamer on which he will cross to France. The P. and O. liner Viceroy of India, which is being specially diverted to take the young King to Alexandria, will have an escort of the British cruiser Ajax on its journey from Marseilles to Alexandria, where it is due next Tuesday. I UNSETTLING EFFECT ANGLO EGYPTIAN RELATIONS PREACH. PRESS FEARS T’AJlltS, April 29. The French Press fears that King Fuad’s death will unsettle AngloEgvptian relations and strengthen th? ham! of the Wafd. ft is considered that the death could not have happened |at a more <-riti