Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1896 — TO CONQUER THE SOUDAN. [ARTICLE]

TO CONQUER THE SOUDAN.

Chamberlain’s Declaration of British Policy on the Mile. In the House of Commons Friday afternoon Mr. Chamberlain said that England’s ideal policy was the recovery of the Soudan, and that there could be no real peace or prosperity for Egypt until the Soudan was recovered. He asserted that the present policy of the Government represented the immediate needs of Egypt and denied that Great Britain was plunging into a policy of adventure. Great Britain could not evacuate Egypt until her work there was accomplished. The reverses of the Italians in Abyssinia had encouraged the dervishes to resume hostile activity and measures must be taken to restrain them before the situation became worse. At the close of the debate the motion of Mr. John Morley to reduce the vote for the civil service by

£IOO, which, if carried, would have had the effect of censuring the Egyptian policy of the Government, was decisively defeated.