Apr. 30.
Sir Austen Chamberlain, the Foreign Secretary. made a st gent this afternoon in the you that since the presentation to Your Excellerley of my Note of April 4, His Britannic' Majesty's Government in Great Britain have watched with increasing concern the growing evidence of the decision of the Egyptian Government' to proceed with certain legislation affecting public seeurity. This legislation, as Your Excellency will be fully aware, not merely from the verbal communication which I had the hon our to make to you on the 19th instant, but from previous similar communications made both to Your Exeellency's predecessor and to yourself before and after the diem of the Aide Memoire, which T had the honour to present to His Excellency Sarwat Pasha 4 last, is coveeed by the reaffirmed in my Tam now instructed by Hix Britannic Majesty's Government to request. Your Excellency, the head of the Egyptian Government, immediately to take the necessary steps to prevent the Bill regulating public _meetings and demonstrations from becoming law. I am instructed to request Your' Excellency to give.
a categorical assurance in writing that the aforementioned measure will not be proceeded with, Should the assurance not ach me before 7 p.m, on May His Britannic Majesty's Gov
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