Failure of Negotiations Over Matter Sudan: Agreement Only a of Time e tpi Apparently a battle royal is pr obtaaig tte a partial agreement was Pasha, the Egyp pressing regret sults and appreciation of the friendly spirit shown by all who had taken part in the negotiations.
It is understood that so far as questions relating to Egypt were concerned an agreement had actually been reached or was well within May 8. After a strenuous eleventh-hour effort to steer the Anglo-Egyptian negotiations through the snags of, opposing claims by a 19-hour tall. at the Foreign Office between the and Egyptian representa. tives, which ended at 3.15 this morning, the conference met again at IL o'clock, but at 1245 this afternoon it was announced that he negotiations had broken down and that no further meetings had been arranged.
Egyptian dolegutes are expected to leave for Cairo to-morrow ley declared to-day that it was possible to sign away the officially emphasized that the conference ended in a very friendly spirit and that the door still open.
The failure of the treaty negotintions was announced in the House of Commons this afternoon. In a brief statement tothe House the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Arthur Henderson, said "I regret to inform the House' that, in spite of mont sincere and friendly efforts on oth sides, the negotiations have failed, His Majesty's Government having seen their way to meet the demands of the Ezyptian Delogation in regard to the Sudan. 1 shall very shortly lay before the House a White Paper dealing with the nesgotintions."
Naked whether the wfuatus quo was meanwhile being maintained on the four reserved pointy, Mr. Arthur Henderson replied. "That. must. be inevitable result, of the failure the negotiations."
The four points referred to were reserved by Great Britain in. the Drelaration of 1922 for future wettlement. They were:—(1) the protection of Egypt from foreign' aggression; (2) the protection of British Imperinl communication (3) the protection of foreign resi and minorities in Egypt: (4)
Sudan, sight upon all the points at issue. The breakdown recurred over the Sudan, in regard to which the Egyptian Delegation made claims hich, in the view of the British Government, were completely inadmissible und contrary to the in-forests of the Sudan and Sudanese.
The Egyptian delegation has issued) 'a statement, as follows:
Despite sincere and really stupendows efforts on both sides, we were most unfortunately unable to {reach an agreement, even an undern standing, in regard to the Sudan, Valthough we went to the utmost limit to attain Egypt's rights in it, The visit has enabled us to establish the happiest relations with Mr. Arthur Henderson and other {bers of the Bi tas well Parliament and distinguished pul tie men. It has also enabled to appreciate the sterling qualities of the British people, who have not spared hospitality and friendly sympathy. We lost a treaty of friendship with Great Britain, but won. tual friendship, which is all-important."
May 9.
Apuet from the Daily Herald" and the "Daily News," which deeply te the (allure of the Anglo-Fgyptnegotiations, the newspapers editorially do of conceal their relief that no treaty hax resulted, though they ae pleaved to stress the frlendatmosphere in which the Confer~ ence broke up. AN emphasize the! utter impossibility of the Egyptian claims to the Sudan.
The Egyptian "delegates toft London for Egypt to-day. Their departure was marked by & Great demonstration at. Victoria, where 4 crowd of Egyptian students and others surrounded the Egyptian Premier, Nahas Pasha, und his colleagues, waving Egyptian flags and displaying placards inseeiber jong live the independence of Exypt and the Sudan."
'The recent negotiations arose out, of proposals for an Anglo-Egyptian treaty settling these outstanding points which were made by Mr. Arthur Henderson, the British' Secretary for Foreign Affairs, last August after conversations in' London with Mahmoud Pasha, then Prime Minister of Egypt. In a covering Note, Mr. Henderson described his proposals as representing the extreme limit which he could recommend the British Government to The Secretary of State for War, Mr. Thomas Shaw, and representa: tives of the Foreign Office and of the Premier, Mr. Ramsay Mac-Donald, were among those who saw off the delegates. The latter had a very cordial farewell talk lasting half an hour with Mr. MacDonald at_No. 10 Downing Street.
The Egyptians were in the best of spirits. Interviewed by a re-preventative of Reuter's Agency, they expressed the hope that they would return to London oon—
Pasha, with his delegation, London at the end of March to con-ict _negotiations on the ba: these proposals and discussions continued ever since except for Tong interval while the Egyptian delegates consulted their colleagues in Cairo. After sitting almost continuously, except for short intervals for rest and refreshment, the delegations finally shortly utter mid-day to-day, announced that the negotiations had broken down.
Although the discussions failed to Produce un agreement, they were conducted throughout "in an extremely amicable spirit said Nahas Renter,
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