The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-01-20
OF THE SOUDAN
ENGLAND AND EGYPT Sign A con-
yENrION OVER IT.
Both Countrfes VIII Act I'm Concert.
hut All Power In the Province
VIII He Lodged In q Governor
tn He Named NominaIly by Egypt.

CAIRO. Jan. ls.-Tae official Gazette to-
day publishes convention between Great
Britain and Egypt relating 20 TIE future or
re-eonauefed S3uian provinces.
After reciting that the provinces were re-
conquered by The joint military and finan-
ctal efforts of the British and khediVe
governments and setting forth the desire 10
give effec, to the claims that have accrued
4, her Britannia maJesty's government by
right Of conquest, the claim 10 share IN the
present settlement and future working and
development Of the administration o. the
territories. and pointing out that the terri
tories OF Wadi Hafa and Suakim may be
most effectively administered in conjunc-
ton with the re-conQuered provinces. the
convention proceeds Us follows
1T was hereby agreed and declared by
the undersigned. duly authorized, that the
word Soudaa in this agreement. means al,
the territory south Of the twenty-secoad
parallel Of latitude which has been sacat-
ed by the Egyptian troops since iss2, or
which. having been administered By the
khediye's government prior TO the Late re-
bellion. were temporarily lost 10 Egypt and
have been re-eonauered oy the british ana
Egyptian governments acting in eonceFt, or
which may hereafter be re-conduered 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 StAkim,
where the Egyptian flag alone shall be
used.
nland In the Soudan shall be vested IN one
officer. termed the governor general, APP
pointed by khedivai decree, with the con,
sent of Great Britain and to be removed
only by khedival decree, with the consent
of Great Britain"
The next clause gives the governor gem
e,al absolute power 10 make, alter or abro-
gate. by proclamation laws. orders or reg
ulations for the good government Of the
Soudan and fer the regulation. holding
~ a 4
uated in the Soudan. but all such procla-
nations must forthwith be notified to the
agent of her Britannia majesty at Cairo
and to the president OF the khedivai coun-
ell, No Egyptian law, decree or enact
ment hereafter made or promulgated is to
apply TO any part OF the Soudsn save by
the proclamation OF the governor general
Regarding the conditions under which
Europeans shall be permitted 10 trade, re-
side or hold property in the Soudan. the
nvention says:
mo special privileges shall he accorded
the subjects of any one or more powers
Import duties shall not he levied goods
from Egyptian territory. 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
leviable upon foreign goods entering
Egypt. Duties may be levied upon goods
leaving the Soudau. the rates to be pre-
scribed by proclamation.
The convention provides that the Juris-
diction OF mixed tribunals shall apply to
no part of the Soudan except Suakin, and
the whole Soudan. except Suakim. shall
remain under martial law until the gov
ernor general proclaims otherwise. No
consular agents small be accredited TO or
allowed to reside In the Soudan without
the previous consent of Great Britain
The importation or expectation OF slaves
is absolutely prohibited.
The convention, which Is dated Cairo,
January 1S 1899. is signed by the khedival
minister of foreign affairs. Routros Pasha
Ghali. and by Lord Cromer, British agent
and consul general in Egypt.