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 Equatorial region, 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. So Stanley proposed to him, after he refused to evacuate, three proposals: (1) either to be governor of the Equatorial region on behalf 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 Equatorial region on behalf of England with a salary paid by England. (3) Or to evacuate and return to Egypt. So Emin Pasha refused to move from one shadow to another. Thus Stanley failed and returned unsuccessful. However, in January 1889, he received a letter stating that "the Egyptian officers had doubts about Emin Pasha and feared that he would evacuate the country, so they took him captive. These officers and employees, who had not received a single piaster for five years, defended the property of their country and endured everything for the sake of their homeland." However, the British continued to pressure Emin Pasha until he evacuated the country under threat on April 10, 1889. With this evacuation, Egypt was cut off 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 Nile region. 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 British government would agree to extend the influence of the Congo government over the Nile course westward to Fashoda. When the order for this agreement was announced, Monsieur Hanotaux, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, said: "It is a void agreement because it is an agreement on a property that England does not own, and it is the property of the Sultan, whose protection is guaranteed by international treaties, and whose administration is the responsibility of the Khedive of Egypt by treaties that stipulate."