FUTURE OF SOUDAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 28 June 1924, Page 9

FUTURE OF SOUDAN.

DISCUSSED IN HOUSE OF LORDS. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, June. 26. In the House of Lords a debate on the Soudan question, which was raised by Lord Raglan, developed importantly owing to a notable intervention by Viscount Grey of Falloden, who deplored the fact that practically all Lord Comer’s splendid work of administration in Egypt was 'gone, or was going. He hoped it would be impressed on Zaghlul Pasha 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 clear that we are not going to abandon the exceptionally fine work we have done in the Soudan. Egypt would nevei have had a finger in the Soudan 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 Soudan. The only exception -must be the question of the Nile waters, which, he acknowledged, was a case for a joint Egypto-Soudanese Commission. Viscount Grey attributed Egypt’s bold attitude as regards the Soudan to an impression that we had been on the run •in Egypt. He considered that the questions of Egypt, the Soudan, and Traq were inter-dependent, and earnestly urged the Government to give careful consideration to Iraq on military grounds. He prefaced a striking speech by a 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 Anglofraq Treaty, of which Viscount Grey had expressed distaste, would be submitted to Parliament before ratification.