Lord Allenby in multi—a form of dress greatly objected to
by the Labour Press—read the Note to Zaghlul Pasha. and ten minutes later he had departed. Next Zaghlul Pasha visited King Fuad and then attended the Chamber, where a secret session was held, which lasted two hours. Most of the deputies were at first in a defiant mood, and wanted to reject all the British demands. After a warm discussion, however, it was agreed to accept all the conditions which directly concerned the murder of the Sirdar. That is to say, they were willing to apolo- gize, to punish the criminals and to pay the fine. Zaghlul Pasha then stated that he was in any ease ready to forbid popular demonstrations as he never liked them. The deputies gave in to this declaration, but it was decided to reject all the remaining demands. The Egyptian Note, which was then drafted, gave such reasons as might have been expected for rejecting most of the points. An hour and a half after Lord Allenby had received it he replied that in view of the Egyptian refusal instructions were being sent to the Sudan Government to remove all Egyptian officers and purely Egyptian units, and to consider themselves at liberty to increase the Gezira irrigation. * * * *
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