Lord Cromer : a biography . Gordons request for 200 Britishtroops to be sent to Wady Haifa, adds : I agreewith the military authorities in thinking that itwould not be desirable to comply with thisrequest ; while in the other he expresses hisdisagreement with the proposal mentioned inColonel Stewarts telegram, that a force ofBritish or Indian cavalry should be sent throughfrom Suakin to Berber. It is to be regrettedthat Mr. Hake should have printed these twoextracts alone, because, as Sir Henry Gordonpoints out in his introduction to the Journals,Sir Evelyn Barings objection to the latter ofth
Lord Cromer : a biography . Gordons request for 200 Britishtroops to be sent to Wady Haifa, adds : I agreewith the military authorities in thinking that itwould not be desirable to comply with thisrequest ; while in the other he expresses hisdisagreement with the proposal mentioned inColonel Stewarts telegram, that a force ofBritish or Indian cavalry should be sent throughfrom Suakin to Berber. It is to be regrettedthat Mr. Hake should have printed these twoextracts alone, because, as Sir Henry Gordonpoints out in his introduction to the Journals,Sir Evelyn Barings objection to the latter ofthese two proposals (the only really practical oneof the two) was not by any means intended toapply to all relief operations by the Suakin-Berber route. On the 24th March, less thanthree weeks later, and but ten days after thesituation had been modified by General Grahamsvictory at Tamai, Baring writes : I believe that the success gained by General Graham in theneighbourhood of Suakin will result in the opening of the .^ OSMAN DIGNA. From a Photograph by Hubert Henry, of Southampton. GORDON AND BARING 145 road to Berber; but I should not think that any action he cantake at or near Suakin would exert much influence over thetribes between Berber and Khartoum. Unless any unforeseencircumstances should occur to change the situation, only twosolutions appear to be possible. The first was to trust to Gordons being ableto maintain himself at Khartoum till the autumn,after briefly discussing which the writer continues : The only other plan is to send a portion of GeneralGrahams army to Berber, with instructions to open up com-munications with Khartoum. There would be very greatdifficulty in getting to Berber, but if that road were once openit might be done by sending small detachments at atime. . Under present circumstances I think that aneffort should be made to help General Gordon from Suakin,if it is at all a possible military operation. GeneralStephenson and Sir Evelyn Wood, whi
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