The Archive · 1936

Agreement Reached

Cairo, Aug. 10.

An agreement on capitulations was reached yesterday when the British Foreign Office accepted the essential Egyptian thesis transferring the Jurisdiction on penal cases from the consular courts to mixed tribunals.

'A conference of various powers enjoying the privileges. of capitulation in Egypt will be convoked at Cairo in January, 1937, in order to study ways and means of effecting transition period before the eventual suppression of mixed courts, Following the conference, Egyptian Government might use the right to do away with mixed courts fon one year's notice—Havas.

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