ENGLAND AND THE SOUDAN.
PROPOSED PROTECTORATE.
DISCUSSION IN THE COMMONS. Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.
London, December 19. There is a growing feeling in favour of a British protectorate over the Eastern Soudan, and it is contended that if this were done the various tribes would gladly expel adherents of the Mahdi from that country.
Several gentlemen well able to express an opinion on the subject declare that a chartered trading company would be the best and most speedy peacemaker in the Soudan. The military estimates were considered in the House of Commons to-day. Mr. John Morley moved a reduction in the Suakim vote.
Mr. Gladstone supported the amendment.
Lord Randolph Churchill made a furious attack on the Government, and said he was prepared to move a vote of censure at the opportune time. The estimates were eventually passed without reduction by a majority of 90. During the debate on the amendment for the reduction in the Military Estimates Sir Evelyn Baring, the British Ambassador at Cairo, was denounced as the tool of the military party.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9242, 20 December 1888, Page 5
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174ENGLAND AND THE SOUDAN. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9242, 20 December 1888, Page 5
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