§ MR. ATHERLEY-JONES (Durham, N. W.)I bog to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the tribesmen in Tokar are still prevented by the Egyptian Government from cultivating and occupying their lands, and whether there is any prospect of their reinstatement; whether legitimate trade between Suakin and the interior of the Soudan, viâ Kassala and Berber, is still interdicted by Her Majesty's Representatives in Cairo; and whether that interdict may be removed?
§ * SIR E. GREYThe tribesmen of Tokar are not, and have not been, prevented from cultivating and occupying their lands; but owing to the failure of the Baraka flood, there has been more distress in the district, and there is less land under cultivation than there was last year, as the hon. Member will see by referring to the second paragraph on page 13 of Lord Cromer's Report presented to the House in Egypt No. 1, 1894. The third paragraph on the same page states that a limited trade is carried on between Suakin and Berber. This has continued for the last six months, metals or warlike materials being alone interdicted.