12 NOVEMBER 1927, Page 2

• * * * The Anglo-Abyssinian Treaty of 1902 binds

Abyssinia not to allow any works on the Blue Nile which would affect the waters of the Nile lower down unless the Governments of the Sudan and of Great Britain consent. This arrangement is mere common sense. Along the entire length of the Nile the life of the people depends upon the control of the flood water ; if the water is interfered with independently and at haphazard every- body suffers.. Moreover, there would_ be no. point in building a darn across the Blue lille...until the _people lower down have arranged to make use of the water. No doubt some. day a BluelsTiledam will be indispensable, but the Sudan appears to have as much-water as is needed at present, -