SUDAN'S FUTURE

Northern Advocate, 27 June 1924, Page 5

SUDAN'S FUTURE

BRITISH HOLD MAINTAINED.

EMBOLDENED EGYPTIANS.

UNDER FALSE IMPRESSION.

(Received 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, June 26. In the House of Lords the debate on th# Sudan question which was raised "by Baron Raglan developed importantly owing to a notable' intervention }jy Viscount Grey of FaWVleen, who deplored the fact that practically all' Earl Cromer's splendid work of administration in Egypt was gone or going. He hoped it would be impressed on Zagßlnl Pasha when he visited London shortly that the right' of protecting and administering, the Suez Canal would not) pass to the Egyptian Government. Britain should equally make it. clear tllafi she was not going to abandon tfia 1 exceptionally fine work she had done in the Sudan. Egypt would never have had a finger in the Sudan agaiii But for Britain. He insisted that in the forthcoming negotiations the 1 Government should malce it quite clear tfrat 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 and Sudanese commission. Viscount Grey attributes the Egyptians' bold attitude as regards the Sudan to the impression that Britain had been on the run in Egypt. He considered that' the questions of Egypt, the Sudan and Iraq were interdependent. 'He earnestly urged the Government to give* careful consideration to Iraq on militaery grounds. He prefaced a striking' speech by the statement that lie 1 did! not know whether his views represented those of the Liberal Party. Lord Parmoor, President of the Council, said the Government did not intend going back on past British policy in Egypt. The Anglo-Iraq Treaty, of which Viscount Grey had expressed distaste, would he submitted to Parliament before 1 ratification. — Reuter.