LATE CABLE NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1397, 3 November 1886, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS

[Special to Sydney “News ”]

At a secet conference of leads/s of the Conservative party, held in Bradford today, it was strongly urged that the Government should at once trke steps to effectively oppose the agtessive ries : gtis of Russia, and by all inesni endeavor to rustrate Russia’s contemplated occupa on ol 'htimbnul. An euq'iirj being made as to what w. ul i be the best way of opposing Russia’s aggression, it was ar.ued that iha policy of the Government should he to fo'lnw up the foreign policy of l.osd Beaoeiufisld prior to his visit to Berlin with Lord Salisbury to the famous Her 1 1 Tr—-y Lord Randolph -’hu'chili accepted the reply as con ai". □ the b sis o? a very desirau.e policy to !;e pu* tied. ! e went so far as to admit th‘t the policy of IKn lute ill us? ri- us Rader of the Consorva'ivo? should be followed were prae-tic-ble, Tut the no' I j hod wen on fo argue that the changed condition of affairs required a gteit modification i>' the c&rdmal princ pes of Lord Beaioi efi il’s P : i cySome strange rumors have been pub* lished in the London press. It is report o on good authority from Paris that the F tnoh Government are arranging • 8 heme by which it hopes t> ba able to compel England to withdraw her soldiers from Egypt, and that in tha event of tnis scheme failing another line of action will be adopted. The basis of the aitorn dive plan is believed to be a plot f. r it.citing the Arabs to revolt, and by the aid of French capital and French officers to enable the Arabs to sustain an attek upon the English, and free them to evacuate.