The Archive · 1899

Settlement of the Government of the Soudan

AN EXCELLENT ARRANGEMENT

A convention signed between Lord Cromer and Boutros Pasha, Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, defines the limits of the Soudan. It includes Wady-Haifa and Suakim in its administration, which is to be distinct from that of it. The convention excludes the Soudan from the jurisdiction of the Mixed Tribunals, and provides that the supreme power shalt be vested in a Governor-General appointed by the Khedive with the consent of Great Britaia.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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