Anglo-Egyptian) POSTS , TELEGRAPHS ; PORTS 85 correspondence and parcels, the steamers with all branches of the postal business, as well as with tele grams at certainstations . Thereare telegraph offices near therailway stations at Halfa, Abu Hamed, Atbara, El Damer, Shendi , and Khartum . Letterscan be posted on the trains . The mails take nine days normally between Khartum and London, and the service is twice weekly, as also is that between Khartum and Cairo, which takes four days. The mail -boat for the Bahr el-Ghazal leaves Khartum on the sixth day of each month ; that for Rejaf on the sixth and the twenty -first of each month. There are monthly posts between Tembura , in the Bahr el-Ghazal province, and both the Belgian Congo and Ubanghi-Shari. The mail service in the Sudan is very efficient. Telegrams are accepted for certain places where no telegraph office exists, a special charge being made for delivery by native runner . There are about 4,777 miles of tele graph line, and nearly 10,000 miles of overhead wire , of which 676 miles are on railway poles.

Nasser and Gambela ( Abyssinia) , both on the Sobat river, are connected by wireless with the Sudan tele graph system at Malakal , on the White Nile . At the newmilitary post of Kereinik , onthe western frontier of Wadai- Darfur, there is a wireless installation .

With the exception of a universal system of tele phones along the railway lines, the telephone service is limited to the towns of Khartum, Khartum North , Omdurman, Port Sudan , Suakin , El Obeid, Halfa, Berber, and Dongola. The provincial circuits include the provinces of Halfa , Berber, Dongola , Red Sea, and White Nile .

(2 ) EXTERNAL (a) Ports The chief Red Sea ports on the Sudan coast are Port Sudan and Suakin .

Port Sudan was completed and opened by the Khedive in 1909. The harbour has a good entrance two cables wide . It is protected from all winds, and