Anglo Sudan 37 -Egyptian] FRONTIER HISTORY and the Sudan Government intervened in the matter.

The French proposalsin 1913 were unacceptable, but the question was on the high road to settlement by arbitration at The Hague when the outbreak of the European War interrupted the negotiations. Ali Dinar, corrupted by letters from Enver Pasha in February 1915, by a Turkish decoration in August 1915 , and by gifts of arms from the Senussi in March 1916 , renounced his allegiance and prepared to invade Kordofan and Upper Egypt in co -operation with the Senussi invasion of Egypt from Sollum and Siwa.

In March 1916 a punitive expedition was sent against him , which marched from El Nahud in Kordofan on the Sultan's capital, El Fasher. The Darfur army of 3,500 men was routed at Beringa , and the capital was occupied on May 23 . The Sultan fled to Jebel Marra . In September the advance was resumed, and finally Ali Dinar was surprised and killed in his camp at Giuba, 30 miles south-west of Kulme, on November 6 , 1916 . His last adherents surrendered on November 23 . Darfur was then in corporated into the Sudan . Co -operation with a French column against the lawless frontier tribes in December 1916 speedily followed. A new military post and wireless station on the western frontier at Kereinik were established in 1918 to protect the Wadai -Darfur trade routes. The country is still largely unexplored and unmapped .

(d ) The Eritrean Frontier.-A long series of agree ments and other documents has defined the Sudan Eritrean frontier from Ras Kasar on the Red Sea coast to Umbrega on the Setit river. The work of survey and delimitation is now all but complete. A commission of December 1915 - January 1916 surveyed the section farthest south . There were also concluded between the two countries a Customs Convention ( November 26 , 1901) , a Postal Convention ( January 8 , 1902) , and a Telegraph Convention ( January 8, ( 1902) . Neither on the Eritrean nor on the Abyssinian