1 JULY 1916, Page 10

Lord Cromer spoke with warm appreciation of the splendid services

rendered to the Empire by Sir Reginald Wingate, the Governor of the Sudan, for it is to him in the first place that our success in the Sudan must be attributed. We may add that Lord Grenfell endorsed Lord Cromer's tribute to • Sir Reginald Wingate. Unquestionably the Sirdar deserves the thanks of the whole Empire. He has discharged his most difficult task with the maximum of tact, foresight, and courage. He has been obliged to do what he has done, not encouraged by immediate help and sympathy from home, but in a position of almost complete isolation. He has been thrown back into a position analogous to that of Clive and Warren Hastings, and well has he sustained his trial.