The Archive · 1928

The Proposed Treaty with Egypt

D Reported Untavourable Reply; to British Proposals: Resignation of Egyptian Cabinet London, Mar. 2.

The Egyptian reply to the British proposals for the settlement of outstanding questions between Great Britain and Egypt is expected to be in the hands of the British Government to-morrow.

Reuter learns that the reply Paris, Mar. 3.

"Specially interviewed by Reuter while en route to Geneva, Sir Austen Chamberlain said that it was now sufficiently clear that the Egyptian Government would not accept the treaty he had negotiated with mier. is a misfortune," he Sarwat Pasha, the Egyptian Pre-It declared. British relations" with with the maintenance of public order and protection of life and property.

The Note has been withheld up the present in the hope that a general agreement would be reached between Great Britain and Egypt under which the Egyptian Government would assume the whole burden of maintaining order, but the failure of the negotiations left Britain under the terms of the declaration of 1922 regarding the responsibility of protecting foreign interests.

The Note reserves the right to take-the steps necessary to meet Britain's obligations—Reuter.

The Treaty- Which Was Refused Egypt, he added, would continue to be regulated by' the 1922 Declara-

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