Marching On.

Manawatu Herald, 12 August 1897, Page 2

Marching On.

Ik aneien^, as in modern times* Egypt was always divided into the Upper and the Lower, or the. Southern. ap3 the Northern country. In the year i 876 Egypt annexed all that country known aa the Soudan, which extended as far south as the Victoria Nyanza, a large portion of whioh ia bow coloured red, being acquisitions made to the Empire during the last few years. Had the territory then annexed, been retained, English influence and government would have extended across Africa trom the Mediterranean to the Cape, but in 1885, weakness was shown and the claim abandoned. The word " Soudan " means the " Land of the Blacks " and is applied not only to the portion claimed by Egypt, but extends from the Atlantic to the Bed Sea and the Abyssinian high* lands. This is the home of the true Negro race. There are three divisions in the Soudan, the Western, the Central, and the Eastern, or Egyptian. Africa has risen in importance since 1885 and the advance of the Egyptians into the Soudan, the capture of the town of AbaHamed, of which we learn to-day,

signifies that the prnmi<»p. that a'l that Egypt plained in 1876 shall be again jjlacpd un.lpr her control, and thus indirectly under the control of Groat Britain, as since the occupation of that country in 1882 British influpncß is supreme, for though the Khedive has a native ministry, he is Hot allowed to contravene, finan ma My. or o»h.prwi<*p, the advipo of the Briti-h rosidnnt Minister. The suetip?* of tbu ISsypuanfl becomes one of interest and value to the Empire.