The Archive · 1924

Conference Ended

London, Oct. 3.

The conversations between Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Zaghlul Pasha, the Eqyptinn Premier, have concluded. Zaghlul Pasha will depart for home shortly.

The early conclusion of the nego tations, coupled with Zaghiul 's intention to depart a week earlier than was orighally anti feipated, has created an impression that the conference did not advance beyond the stage of generalities. Both sides are most reticent and decline to state whether the cryptic official announcement of the conelusion of the conference implied a rupture, but it is understood that Zaghlul Pasha's silence is partly' due to the uncertainty of the British political situation, Oct, Reuter learns from an Egyptian source with reference to the con delusion of the Anglo-Egyptian conus in London that Mf y MacDonald yesterday ynned Zaghlul Pasha that it was impossible to withdraw the British troops from Exypt because they. were needed for the protection the Suez Canal was not accepted by Mr. MacDonald, who proposed an Anglo-Egyptian Alliance, to which Zaghlul Pasha, agreed, but said that this was impossible while British Troops re-

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, white: Fnot abandoning hope of a" subse quent agreement, expressed the opinion that the attitude of Zaghlul Fashn at present rendered agree; lent impossible. He declared that British Government could wholly sacrifice their interests in guarding vital link of British communica-tons like the canal, and assured Zaghlul Pasha that Britain did not intend to attempt direct control over the policy of the Egyptian Government. MacDonald adhered to his previous statements regarding the Sudan.—Reuter.

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