BRITISH IN SUDAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1053, 27 June 1924, Page 5

BRITISH IN SUDAN.

GOVERNMENT'S POLICY,

LONDON. June 25

In the House of Lords, replying to a question in regard to the Government's policy in Egypt and the Sudan, Lord Parmoor emphasised that the Government was not going to abandon the Sudan in any sense whatever. It recognised our obligation to the Sudanese and regarded them of Slich a character that the Government could not abandon without very serious loss of prestige.—Reuter. CONTROL OF SUEZ CANAL. MUST NOT PASS TO EGYPi'. Received June 27, 10.25 a.m. LONDON, June 26. In the House of Lords the debate on the Sudan question, which was raised by Lord Raglan, developed importantly owing to the notable intervention by F-avl Grey of Failodon, who deplored the fact; that practically all Lord Cromer's splendid work of the administration of Egypt was gone or going. He hoped it would be impressed on Zaghlul when he visited London shortly that the right of protecting and administering the Suez Canal would not pass to the Egyptian Government. "We should equally make it clear," he said, "that we are not going to abandon tho exceptionally fine work we have done in the Sudan. Egypt would never have had a finger in the Sudan again but for us." He insisted that in the forthcoming negotiations 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 for a joint Egypto-Sudanese commission. Earl Grey attributed tlie Egyp tian bold attitude as regard tho Sudan to the impression that we had been on the run m Egypt. He considered thtit the questions of Egypt, Sudan and Irak were interdependent, and he earnestly urged the Government to give careful consideration to Trak 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 back on the past British policy in Egypt. The Anglo-Irak treaty, of which Earl Grey had expressed distaste, would be submitted to Parliament before ratification. —Reuter.