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Egypt. The whole capitulatory system had, as we have
seen, been excluded, and the Sheri Courts, though main-
tained for matters of Moslem status, were put under
British supervision. One half of the judges had to be
members of the British Bar ; and though both Bench and
Bar were at first recruited in part from Egypt, vacancies
were soon filled from Sudanese, trained in the Gordon
College at Khartum. Now we have to-day an administra-
tion of the Sudan which is not Anglo-Egyptian but
Anglo-Sudanese. The British officials for it are recruited
in England for a special civil service, while native recruits
are trained for it in a special college at Khartum. The
policy followed by this administration in its continuance
of tribal systems of government and of local customs,
as well as in its co-operation with British capitalists with
a view to converting the population into cultivators, is
being highly successful. Association with Egyptians
would not only be worthless in every way, but quite un-
workable. There is not, and possibly never again will be,
a possible partnership between Egyptians and English in
ruling the Sudan. Feeling has run too high, and there
are hard facts in the way. The Egyptian regiments in
the Sudan revolted during the nationalist rising in
Egypt, and were only repressed with loss of life on both
sides. After their removal in 1924 the Egyptian officers
raised against us the Sudanese regiments, and Egyptian
emissaries caused disaffection among the Sudanese
students in Gordon College and among the military
cadets. No serious harm was done, for the Sudanese
population showed no inclination whatever to rise in
response to Egyptian propaganda. But an association
of Egyptians in the administration was thereafter no
longer a practical possibility, and would, moreover, be
quite improper in principle in view of our responsibility