The policy of the British.

very much. Exports from Egypt via Aswan alone amounted to two million pounds, and exports from Suakin and Qena and Assiut were equivalent to this amount. As for Sudan's imports to Egypt and Karr Kaat Arraan A amin j Yee Lami | 83a of this trade and exports a small portion that is hardly worth mentioning. If it weren't for the import of Sudanese cattle in the recent tide, the trade and commercial relations between Egypt and Sudan would have reached zero despite the increase in trade and the number of inhabitants, reaching one and a half million. The trade of Egypt and Sudan now indicates that Sudan is not a source of livelihood but rather a source of production and trade. This is why the Egyptian government, under the leadership of Sharif Pasha alone in the year 4 not only on the pretext of the British to evacuate Sudan, but also protested this endeavor. National and foreign merchants, in a memorandum they submitted to Khedive Tawfiq Pasha and his ministers, Lo Bar Pasha and the representatives of the powers, said: Sudan's imports are two million pounds (via Aswan) and its exports are one and a half million pounds. The real estate is estimated in the millions. Many, and the number of Christian merchants is 10,000, and the number of Egyptian merchants is 10,000. The number of Egyptian commercial establishments is three thousand, and the number of European commercial establishments is about a thousand, and the value of imported goods is estimated at half a million pounds.

But all of this is nullified by Britain's determination to evacuate Sudan. Rather, it was this that prompted them to evacuate it in order to take possession of it. As soon as the matter of evacuation was decided (1884), the Emperor ordered an English force to land in Suakin. They had already planned the railway from Suakin to (1884). Before that, in the year to divert the trade route from Egypt to Suakin, thus monopolizing Sudan's wealth. We find that the transportation costs are high and there is no competition. After the occupation of Suakin, they sent the mercenary Henar to occupy Zeila and Berbera and beyond. Egyptian troops were sent.

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