EGYPT
LADY STACK REFUSES COMPENSATION. SUGGESTS DISTRIBUTION AMONG POOR. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. CAIRO, December 3. The newspaper ‘AI Mokattam’ states that the British Government offered Lady Stack £200,000, which she declined to accept for herself, but requested its dis-. tribution among the poor. —Reuter. GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF SUDAN. SIR GEOFFREY" ARCHER APPOINTED. LONDON. December 4. The ‘Morning Post's - Cairo correspondent learns that a Royal decree will be issued to-day Appointing Sir Geoffrey Archer, Governor of Uganda, to be Governor-General of the Sudan. —A. and N.Z. Cable. [Sir Geoffrey Archer has been Governor and Commander-in-Chiof in Uganda^since 1922. He. has a long record of service in Africa in an administrative capacity, and ho was also officer in charge of the Northern Frontier of India. In- 1920 lie directed' operations against the Mullah, which resulted in the destruction of tho Dervish (lower in Somaliland. , Ho was awarded Peak Grant medal in .1918 by the. Royal Geographical Society for work in connection with the triangnlation of East Africa.]
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Evening Star, Issue 18808, 5 December 1924, Page 9
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