Sudan 6 Andredo-Esyptian] GENERAL OBSERVATIONS on far more rapid than was believed possible in theearly days of the period, and there is no room in the Sudan for impatience , irritability, or ill-considered haste.

Thefinal test of fifteenyears of work came with the outbreak of the European War, and especially Tur key's share in it at the end of 1914. The loyalty of the Arabs, the quiet of the negroes, might then well have been shaken . Both were rooted in contentment and stood firm . Martial law was proclaimed at Khar tum on November 14, 1914, and an emissary from Enver Pasha, sent to tamper with the officers of the army, was captured at Port Sudan . Neither this nor the declaration of the British Protectorate over Egypt, December 18, 1914, caused any excitement. The threat of invasion to Egypt both from east and west west produced a crop of alarmist rumours, but no open disaffection, save in Darfur, and the peril passed away . Memories of former Turkish iniquities in the land were still vivid . The religious authorities; the Ulemas of Khartum and through the country, always sympathetically treated , honoured, and con.

sulted by the Government, had no interest in any holy war on behalf of the Sultan of_Turkey or of a traitorous and deposed Khedive of Egypt.

The truth of Sir Reginald Wingate's words was certain : " We English have spared no pains and expense to improve the lot of the peoplein every way.'.

The Sudan is more than ever vital to Egypt for the latter country's security and the control of the water of the Nile . But the regeneration of the country since 1898 has brought peace and prosperity to the Sudan itself, as well as safety and wealth to Egypt.

( 6 1 Speech to the Ulemas, at Khartum : on November 8 , 1914 , on the outbreak of the war with Turkey.