And the ambitions of British policy 79 The Wolf and Camel Company How Sudan judges the Company's era Lord Curzon and the Sudanese delegation 1919 We learned from the 1899 agreement that Article 3 stipulates: "The supreme military and civil authority in Sudan shall be delegated to a single official, to be known as the Governor-General of Sudan, and his appointment shall be by Khedivial decree upon the request of His Majesty's Government; and he shall not be dismissed from his post except by Khedivial decree issued with the consent of the British Government." So, all that Egypt had from the Company in appointing the Governor-General was the signing of the decree. As for the Governor's investiture, appointment, and dismissal, that was the prerogative of the British Government. The British Government does not appoint an Egyptian Governor. This British Governor was empowered by Article 4 of the aforementioned agreement to enact and repeal laws, so every proclamation by the Governor-General is a enacted law. One of the senior British officials was asked about the reason that led him, on the day the agreement was signed with Egypt, to exclude Suakin and leave the Egyptian flag alone flying over it. He replied, "Suakin is the part of Sudan that is exposed to attack. So, we left it as it was on the day the agreement was concluded, as one leaves a wounded person in the breach of a wall to bind his wounds and pains, or as one places a hospital in a weak point of the battlefield." That was their argument before the annexation of Suakin and the establishment of Port Sudan. On the day the agreement was signed, Lord Kitchener was appointed Governor-General of Sudan. He announced the opening of trade in Sudan on December 12, 1899. He was succeeded in the rule of Sudan on December 22, 1899, by Sir Reginald Wingate Pasha. He issued a proclamation threatening reform and warning of punishment if they violated the laws. Then he formed the central government and made all its members British. He appointed a British military officer to each province and appointed