EGYPT AND THE SUDAN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19049, 28 June 1924, Page 15

EGYPT AND THE SUDAN

VISCOUNT GREY SPEAKS OUT. LONDON, June 26. In the House of Lords, a debate on the Sudan question which was raised by Lord Raglan, developed importantly owing to a notable intervention by Viscount Grey at Fallodon. who deplored the fact that practically all Lord Cromer’s splendid work o£ administration in Egypt was gone or going. He hopefl it would be impressed on Zaghlul when he visits 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 that we are not going to abandon the exceptionally fine work we have clone in 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 case for a joint Egypto-Sudanese Commission. Viscount Grey attributed the Egyptian bold attittnde as regards the Sudan to the impression that we have been on the run in Egypt. He eonsiderd the questions of Egypt, Sudan and Iraq were interdependent, and lie earnestly urged the Government to give careful consideration to Iraq 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-Iraq Treaty, of which Lord Grey had expressed distaste, would be submitted to Parliament before ratification. __