And the dawn of British policy 79 The Wolf and the Lamb Company How Sudan Governs Under the Company Lord Curzon and the Sudanese Delegation 1919 From the 1899 agreement, we learned 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. His appointment shall be by Khedivial decree, upon the request of Her Majesty's Government, and he shall not be removed 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 Khedivial decree. As for the nomination, appointment, and dismissal of the Governor-General, that was the prerogative of the British Government. The British Government does not appoint an Egyptian Governor-General. This British Governor-General was empowered by Article 4 of the aforementioned agreement to enact laws and regulations. Thus, everything issued by the Governor-General is a enacted law. One of the prominent Englishmen was asked about the reason that led them, on the day of concluding the agreement with Egypt, to exclude Suakin and leave the Egyptian flag alone to achieve its goals. He replied: "Suakin is the part of Sudan exposed to attack. So, we left it as it was on the day the agreement was made, as one leaves a patient with a wound on the wall of a fort, respecting his pain and suffering, or as one places a Red Cross hospital at a weak point on the 'battlefield'..." That was their argument before the establishment of Suakin and the construction of Port Sudan. On the day the agreement was signed, Lord Kitchener was appointed Governor-General of Sudan. He announced the opening of Sudan to trade on December 12, 1899. He was succeeded in governing Sudan on December 27, 1899, by Reginald Wingate. Wingate issued a proclamation promising reforms and threatening punishment if they violated the laws. He then formed the Central Government, making all its members British. He appointed a British military governor for each province and appointed