And the ambitions of British policy. 47 the Egyptian government if I did that. The strangest thing about this story is that Stanley, whom England sent under the pretext of rescuing Emin Pasha from the Equator, sent to Emin Pasha asking him for help to rescue him from his predicament so that he could reach him. So Emin sent him a force that rescued him. When Stanley met him and asked him to return with him, he replied that the Egyptian government had not ordered me to evacuate, but had left me free to act. Stanley then proposed to him, after he refused to evacuate, three proposals: (1) either to be governor of the Equator in the name of Belgium with a financial grant of 300,000 francs per year, and a salary of 37,000 francs. (2) Or to be governor of the Southern East region in the name of England with a salary paid by England. (3) Or to evacuate and return to Egypt. Emin Pasha refused to move from one shadow to another. Thus, Stanley failed and returned with his two companions. However, in January 1888, he received a letter stating that "Egyptian officers had doubts about Emin Pasha and feared that they would evacuate the country, so they began to support him." These officers and officials, who had not received a single piaster for five years, protected the property of their country and endured everything for the sake of their homeland. However, the English continued to pressure Emin Pasha until he evacuated the country under threat on April 10, 1889. With this evacuation, Egypt's influence receded from all parts of Sudan, and the Egyptian flag, which had flown over those regions for half a century, was lowered. England began to organize its affairs, extending its protection over Uganda and concluding an agreement with Germany in 1890, by which Germany recognized England's influence in the Upper Nile. It also concluded another agreement with the Belgian Congo government in 1894 stipulating that the Congo government would agree to the passage of the Cape railway through its territory, and the English government would agree to the influence of the Congo government over the Nile course westward to Fashoda. When the order for this agreement was announced, Monsieur Hanotaux, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, said: "It is a void agreement, not an agreement on property that England does not own, but property of the Sultan, whose protection is guaranteed by international treaties, and whose affairs are managed by the Khedive of Egypt. by treaties that stipulate