Cairo, July 24. tian government desires o enter into direct negotiations with viet Russia about the arrangement of a trade treaty but wishes to remain without diplomatic relations to Soviet Russia, as up to now.
Preliminary negotiations to th end were begun in Ankara some time ago between the Egyptian Minister and the Soviet Ambassador there.
In the event of these negotiations leading to a satisfactory result. the export of Russian timber to Egypt end of Egyptian cotton to Soviet Russia will pass directly by sea instead of via Holland and Britain as up to now.—Trans-Ocean.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.