16 AUGUST 1924, Page 2

The Government here will only be confirmed in their opinion,

which has been already plainly expressed. The Sudan is not Egypt, and Egypt has no right whatever, legal, trioral or historical, to govern '('or rather to mis- govern), it. Egypt could not hold it when she nornimlly had it. The natives of the Sudan are happy under what is actually British rule, though the Egyptian flag is flowntogether with the' Union -Jack:' They have made remarkable advances in prosperity. They would regard a transference to Egyptian rule with sheer dismay, and we are under the strongest obligation not to desert them. "We should -be worse than cowards," as Mr. MacDonald said the othef day, if we were to cast off our respon- sibilities. * * * *