The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-20
FUTURE OF THE S0UDAA
A Convention Reached Be-
tween Great Britain
and Egypt.
WORD "souDAu" DEFINED
MEANS ALZ TERRITORIES SOUTH
OF e2 PARALLEL.

British and Egyptian Flags to Wave
Together on Land and Nothing
Can be Done without Britain's Com
sent Open Door Policy to be Observed
-Exportation of Slaves Absolutely
Prohibited.
Cairo, Jan. 1o.-The Official Gazette
to-day publishes a convention between
Great Britain and Egypt relating to the
future government of the reconquered
Soudan provinces.
After rec.tng that the provinces We're
reconquered by the joint military and
financial efforts of the British and Khe-
divial governments and setting forth the
desire to give effect to the claims that
have accrued to her Britannia majesty 8
government by right of conquest-the
claim to share in the present settle
ment and future working and develop
ment Of the administration of the terri
tories, and pointing out that the terri
ories of Wady Halfa and Suakin may
be most effectively administered in con-
junction with the reconquered prov
inces, the convention proceeds as fol-
lows:
'It is hereby agreed and declared be-
tween the undersigned, duly author
ized, that the word Soudan in this
agreement means all the territories
south of the 22d parallel of latitude
which have never been evacuated by
the Egyptian troops since 1882, orwhich,
having been administered by the Khe-
dives government prior to the late re-
bellion, were temporarily lost to Egypt
and have been reconquered by the Brit
ish 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 in
Saukin, where the Egyptian flag alone
shall be used.
THE supreme military and civil COM
one officer, termed the governor general,
appointed by the Khedivial decree, with
the consent of Great Britain and to be
removed only by I&hediv.al decree with
the consent of Great Britain"
The next clause gives the governor
general absolute power to make alter
or abrogate by proclamation, laws, or
ders or regulations for the good gov
eminent of the Soudan and for the
holding, disposal and devolution of
property of every kind situate in the
Soudan; but all such procamations
must forthwith be notified to the agent
of her Britannia majesty at Cairo and |
to the president of the Khedivial conn
Gil.
No Egyptian law decree or enact |
ment hereafter made or PROMULGATED
is to apply to any part of the Soudan.
save by the proclamation of the cover
nor general.
Regarding the conditions under which
europeans shall be permitted to trade,
reside or hold property in the soudan,
the convention says: "No special privi-
lege shall be accorded the subjects of
any one or more powers. Import duties
shall not be levied on goods from Egyp-
tion territory, but they shall be leviable
on goods from elsewhere. In the case
of goods entering the Soudan the duties
must not exceed the amount leviable
upon foreign goods entering Egypt. Du-
ties may be levied upon goods leaving
the Soudan the rates to be prescribed
by proclamation. ;"
The convention provides that the jur-
isdiction of the mixed tribunals shall
g pply to no part OF the Soudan except
Suakin, and the whole Soudan shall re-
main under martial law until the gov
consular agents shall be accredited to
or allowed to reside in the Soudan with
out the previous consent of Great Brit
ain The importation or expectation of
slaves is absolutely prohibited; ana
special attention is to be paid to the
of the Brussels act of July
2, 1890, in respect to the import, sale and
manufactu of firearms, munitions and
distilled or spirituous liquors. The con-
yention, which is dated at Cairo Janu-
ary IS, 1899, is signed by the I<hedivial
minister of foreign affairs, Boutro
Pasha Ghali, and by Lord Cromer, Brit
ish agent and consul general in Egypt.
Health cfthe Pop.
London, Jan. 20.-A dispatch to the
Daily News from Rome says that the '
pope is suffering from a Slight attack