THE SUDAN

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 June 1924, Page 9

THE SUDAN

POLICY OF BRITAIN. IMPORTANT DISCUSSION. BY CABLE—PB,ESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received June 27, 9.25 a.m. LONDON, June 26. In the House of Lords the debate on the Sudan question, which was raised by Lord Raglan, developed in an important way owing to the notable intervention of Earl Grey of Falloden, who deplored the fact that practically all Lord Cromer’s splendid work of administration in Egypt, was gone or going. He hoped it would be impressed on Zaghlul when he visits London shortly that the right of protecting and administering tha Suez Canal would not pass to the Egyptian Government. We should equally raake clear that we are not going to aljajndon the exceptionally fine work we haye done in the Sudan. Egypt would liefer have had a finger in the Sudan again but for us. He insisted that in the forthcoming negoti. ations the Government should* make it quite clear that’the Egyptian Government had no say at all in the question of the Sudan. The only exception must be the question of the Nile waters, which, he acknowledged,. was a case for a joint Egyptian-Sudanese commission. Earl Grey attributed the Egyptian bold attitude as regards the Suda'n to the impression that we have been on the run in Egypt. He considered the question of Egypt, the Sudan, and Irak were inter-dependent, and earnestly urged the Government to give careful consideration to Irak on military grounds. He prefaced a striking speech by the statement that he did not know whether his views represented the Liberal Party’s. Lord Parmoor said the Government, did not intend going hack on the past British policy in. Egypt. The AngloIrak treaty, of which Ear] Grey had expressed distaste, would he submitted to Parliament before ratification. — Reuter.