19 DECEMBER 1925, Page 2

It is satisfactory that after six years of argument the

Egyptian and Italian Governments have- conic to an agreement about Jarabub. Egypt 'recognizes • Italian sovereignty over that oasis and in compensation Egypt receives 'a piece of 'territory west of the port of Sollum. It seems an excellent arrangement on which Ziwar Pasha, the Egyptian Prime Minister, is to be congratulated. He has behaved courageously in the face of much oppo- sition, factitious though it was. The Italians in 'Libya will now be more secure against raids from those Moslem Puritans of the desert, the Senussi ; and Egypt can develop her new territory as a very useful landing place on the air route to Cairo.

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