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to the vote of supply. The official reasons for the
advance were that the defeat of the Italians by the
Dervishes and Ethiopians, presented a throat to the
Egyptian frontiers. In the reales of deeper diplomac$
Salisbury had always intended to shut the other powern
out of the Nile Valley by occupying it in the name of
Egypt.
1)
It was no oecrot=: that the expedition would
not be limited in extent but uae the beginning of a
conquest of the whole Nile Valley.
There was strong Liberal opposition from Dilke
Who referred to "the unwiodoa, the imprudence, the folly
of the expedition, "
(2)
Harcourt and Courtney who wan by
this time in the curious position of being an anti-Xmperialiat
Liberal Unionist, Labouchere revived the 1885 arguments
on behalf of the Sudaneoe$ , Ilia sympathies were with those
men to whom the country belonged and who were struggling
against foreign invmeion,... I do not regard the Khalifa an
a sort of William Toll. I regard him as a very bad can
(laughter), but I admire the Soudaneoe for rather preferring
(1) Robinnon1 Gallagher and Denny, Damit, p*346 at seq"
(2) lTnnnrd, 4th neries, Vol XXXV111,3rd. 23rd March 1896,
1040.