And the ambitions of British policy.

An incident occurred that agitated on the arrival of Evelyn Baring (Lord Cromer) in Egypt. He informed the Khedive that England was not interested in Sudan and would not help Egypt to remain there or to regain some of its hopes. Lord Milner explained Evelyn Baring's words to the Khedive, saying: "A tired, weakened, poor man – as Egypt was at that time – has no choice but to give up some of his possessions for fear of bankruptcy." The Khedive replied to Sir Evelyn Baring that he could not abandon Sudan, and if Egypt did not receive assistance to strengthen its army, he would prefer to resort to the Sultan of Turkey for this assistance. Baring replied, "But on the condition that Ottoman troops do not enter Egypt and that Suakin remains its base." The next day, the Khedive was presented with "the counsel and advice to abandon Sudan" so that it would be without a master, and England would extend its sovereignty over it. When the Egyptian ministry refused to abandon Sudan, it was forced to resign. Lord Milner said, "The British government followed the opinion of its representative and ordered him to inform the Egyptian government to abandon Sudan immediately. If any minister refused, he should resign. Thus, we falsified the theory at that time that the policy of Egypt and Sudan did not guarantee us."

The strangest thing in the argument presented by Lord Cromer to Khedive Tewfik to persuade his soldiers to leave Sudan was that the Egyptian government spent 480,000 pounds on Sudan and received only 480,000 pounds from Sudan, so it was not permissible for Egypt to spend 160,000 pounds in Sudan each year. They considered it too much to send 16,000 Egyptian and Sudanese soldiers to pacify Sudan, but when Sudan became theirs, they found this number to be insufficient and increased it in all branches and formations at the expense of Egypt and the Egyptian treasury.

As for the provinces of Sudan as organized after its recapture and the excision of its peripheries, they are as follows: