The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-20
government OF S0UDAA
tHreat Britain Holds Equal
Powers With Egypt.
BOTH FLAGS WILL FLY
A Convention Between the Two Coun-
tries Agreed Upon-No Special
Privilege VIII Be Granted
Any Power.

Cairo, Jan. 19.-The Official Gazette
to-day publishes convention between
Great Britain and Egypt relating to the
future government of reconquered Sou
dan provinces. After reciting that the
provinces were reconquered by the
joint military and financial efforts of
khe British and khedivial governments
and setting forth the desire to give
effect to the claims that have accrued
E to her Britannia majesty's government
by right of conquest, the claim to share
Din the present settlement and future
working and development of the admin
istration of the territories and pointing
out that the territories of Wadi Halfa
and Suakim may be most effectively
administered in conjunction with the
reconquered provinces, the convention
proceeds as follows:
1T is hereby agreed and declared by
the undersigned, duly authorized, that
the word Soudan in this agreement
means all the territories south of the
22nd parallel of latitude, which has
been evacuated by the Egyptian troops
since 1882 or which, having been admin
istered by the khedive's government
prior to the late rebellion, were tempo
rarily lost to Egypt and have been re-
conquered by the British and Egyptian
governments, acting in concert, or which
may hereafter be reconquered by the
two governments, acting in concert
The British and Egyptian flags shall
be used together on both land and
water throughout the Soudan, except
Suakim, where the Egyptian flag alone
ehall be used.
The supreme military and civil COM
mand in the Soudan shall be vested in
one officer, termed the governor gen
keraf. appointed by khedivial decree,
with the consent of Great Britain, and
ito be removed only by khedivial decree,
with the consent of Great Britain"
The next clause gives the governor
general absolute power to make, alter
or abrogate by proclama ton laws, or
ders or regulations, for the good gov
ernment of the Soudan and for the hold
ing and disposal of property of every
kind situated in the Soudan: but all
such proclamations must forthwith be
notified to the agent of her Britannia
majesty at Cairo and to the president
OF the khedivial council. No Egyptian
Jaw, decree or enactment hereafter pro-
mulgated is to apply to any part of
the Soudan save by the proclamation of
the governor general. Regarding the
conditions under which Europeans shall
NC PciiAltleu 10 TRADE, reSlue or hold
property in the Soudan, the convention
says:
No special privileges shall be ac-
corded to the subjects of any one or
more powers. Import duties shall not
be levied on goods from Egyptian ter
r1tory, but they shall be leviable on
goods from elsewhere. In the case of
goods entering the Soudan at Suakim
or any other Red sea port, the duties
must not exceed the amount leviabIe
upon foreign goods entering Egypt
Duties may be levied upon goods leav-
ang the soudan. the rates to be pre-
scribed by proclamation
The convention provides that the iur-
asdiction of mixed tribunals shall apply
10 no part of the Soudan except Suakim
ana the whole Soudan, except Suakim,
shall remain under martial law until
the governor general proclaims other
F wise. No consular agents shall be ac
credited to or allowed to reside in tthe
Soudan without the previous consent of
Great Britain