TUESDAY, JUNE 30.—MORNING SESSION, 
II A.M. 
Section VII.—Miscellaneous Subjects. 
Chairman: PRoressor P. Carmopy, Director of Agriculture, 
Trinidad. 
The Cuarrman: I have been asked to take the chair at this 
meeting, and I have much pleasure in calling upon Mr. Hewins 
to read his paper on the Economic Developments in the Anglo- 
Egyptian Sudan. 
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ANGLO-EGYPTIAN 
SUDAN. 
By H. P Hewins, 
Director, Commercial Intelligence Branch, Central Economic 
Board, Sudan Government, Khartoum. 
[ABSTRACT. | 
The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was conquered from the 
Dervishes, who had held it for some fourteen years, by a com- 
bined British and Egyptian force under Lord Kitchener in 1898. 
The Dervishes had ruined the country. During their rule 
the population declined, owing to famine, warfare, and pesti- 
lence, from 8,000,000 to about 2,000,000. 
The Sudan has made rapid recovery during the last fifteen 
years. 
Revenue has increased from £E.127,000 in 1899 to 
£E.1,644,000 in 1913, and the country is now solvent. 
External trade, which was practically non-existent at the 
time of the conquest, has now an annual value of nearly 
£E.4,000,000. 
Practically the whole of the country now enjoys undisturbed 
tranquillity, and matters have so far progressed that the British 
Government has recently guaranteed the interest on a loan to 
