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Make intervention in the Sudan a noceoaity; iiilfrad Scawen
Blunt aoc®rtad that toad waa, btorking with UartinJton and
Granville to convince Oladotono that Gordon should be sent
to the Sudan,
(1)
but stead always denied this,
departed for the Sudan on 18th January with instructions to
(`)
Gordon
"report on the *ili. tary i$tuation in than Soudant on measures for
the security of the Seyptian garrison and an the Egyptian
population of Khartoum $ on the beat mode of evacuation of the
interior and of securing the safety and Good administration of
the San coast by the Egyptian Governments"-(3)
No sooner had Gordon arrived
than he began to Sot
into difficulties and bombarded the Government with a neriea
of contradictory telegrams and pleuo for "r-m chin; the I! ahdit'.
Tokar and Einkat on the Dad -Spa fa1l to tho tinhdistn, the
telegraph link with the Sudan was cut# and Gordon was beoioCed
in Khartoum.
The Conservatives began to 1rOGa for a relief expedition.
On 7th rebx'uary Sir Stafford Uorthcote novod a vote of censure
against the Government and this was repeated on 12th Hay with
Sir It. ßicka Beach's motion of censure, But on the other hand
(1) W. &. Blunt, Cordon at Khnrtou a, London 1911, p. 1639
(2) T. VW'hyto, 01! cits p. 128.
(3) Gladstone 1,1.33, ADD } 431? 6%, Granville to Gladotono
16th January 18 4. `t