Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1888 — The Soudanese Slave Trade. [ARTICLE]

The Soudanese Slave Trade.

Lord Salisbury was called upon yes terday by a deputation of members of the House of Commons and others, who asked the government to protect trading and suppress-slave dealing in the Soudan. The premier explained that there were only two alternatives—withdrawal from Suakim, which would mean the dominance of Osman Digna and the slave I rade, or the continuance of the Egyptian flag at Scakim. An English protectorate, he raid, could not be thought of. The government sympathiaid wfth the aims of the deputation and would advice the Egyptian government to the best of its ability.