The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19
SUDAN AFFAIRS.
Speculation as to Further Plans OF
English Government.

English Government.
London Letter in New York Commercial
Advertiser.
Lord Cromer and Sir Herbert Kitchener
know how to keep their secrets, but there
is little doubt here in London that toward
the end of the year divisions of the Anglo
Egyptian army will undertake the reoccu-
patton Of the southwestern provinces, OAR
fur and Kordofan and of the country be-
tween the White and the Blue Nile. BE-
fore the rise of the Mahdi they were Anglo
egyptian dependencies Many of the tribes
have resented the oppressive suzerainty or
the Khalifa. and now, with his downfall
will in all probability submit readily. For
three months more the Nile will be naviga-
ble and already word comes from Omdur.
man that the gunboats will soon ascend
each branch of the river, unless the clotted
vegetation should prove an insuperable OBJ
stacle to spread the news of the overthrow
of the Khalifa to the sources of the Nile,
prepare the way for rhe re-establlSnment
of Anglo Egyptian dominion to the lakes,
and learn whether any of the French ex-
ploring parties that are wandering about
the upper basin has really gained FOOTING
there. Before Anglo Egyptian authority az
vances much farther southwark IL VIII %
necessary to sc und the rather uncertain
temper of King Menelk of Abyssina his
kingdom adjoins the valley OF the upper
has been warily watchful of the English.
If he believed that his territories or nus
prestige were in danger ne mlgnt pI t
difficult to appease, and harder even than
the Khalifa to conquer. Russian ana
French agents moreover. have OF late tar
ried at his court. Thus, the Anglo-Egyptian
advance will go slowly and surely forward,
until at last the Nile is open and free from
Alexandria to the lakes. and the southern
frontier of Egypt's equatorial provinces
touches the northern border of the English
protectorate in Uganda. English opinion Is
already setting up THIS goal. Force OF cir
cumstances makes gradual progress toward
1t nearly Inevitable.
Meanwhile there is an orderly admins
traitor to be set up in the Sudan itself that
al first is likely to be more English than
Eevntian Whole districts that the Der
wishes harried ard that fear of them kent
a waste have new TO be- repopulated, so
that agriculture and trade may spring up
again At best large part of the sudan 10
the north of KhaItum must remain
stretch of gray desert. or of nearly unpro-
ductiye country. To the south. however.
are provinces in which agriculture and
trade need only security TO flourish anew.
For centuries Khartum. at the junction OF
two Niles has been a trading center, ana
with the expulsion OF the Dervishes. free
Nile and not far IN the future. a railway
connecting with Egypt. a new city should
rise on the ruins of the old to regain It's
former prosperity. Already Lord Cromer
NAV anticipate the time when, with the
damming Of the Nile, cotton shall be the
crop OF lower Egsy pit and Nsugar OF middle
and of upper Egypt. while the territory be-
tween the first land the second cataracts,
freed from fear of Iervishes. shall feed the
whole and the desert zone be belt 10 nind
n TO the f1ourislhing provinces from Khar-
tum to the equator