Why the White Nile is Wanted.
♦- There is a 3erious danger to which Egypt is liable, and to which it will continue to be liable until tha Soudan and the Upper Nile are are brought under civilised rule. Dr Robert F^lkin writes in the " Wide World Magazins " :— •' Supposing the White Nile was allowed to remain in the Khalifa's hands, one could never say when ifc might not be diverted into the Red Sea — the old course which tradition says it originally followed. As things are, it is quite possible to divert the river at the Sixth Cataract, and the Aby3Binians have threatened to do this very thing on more than one occasion. Gordon himself admitted U3 possibility, and said that anyone with a tm of dynamite could easily block up the passage through which the river flows at this spot. The , Nile could then be diverted through the desert until it found its way into the Red Sea. And without the Nile, where would Egypt be ?"
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Manawatu Herald, 8 September 1898, Page 3
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166Why the White Nile is Wanted. Manawatu Herald, 8 September 1898, Page 3
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