Fashoda Oocupied.
The correspondent of the Timet at Cairo telegraphs that General Kitchener has, without meeting with resistance, garrisoned Fashoda, the town on the Nile some 400 miles south of Khartoum, which has lately been the object of the British and French rivalry, and also another town named Sobat, some 70 miles south of Fashoda. The Cairo authorities are silent regarding, the presence of white strangers at Fashoda. It has been ascertained that there are no Abyssinian troops in the Upper Nile region. The Daily Telegraphs correspondent Bays that the Sirdar found the Frenah expedition al Fashoda, and notified Captain Marchand that the territory was British, and that he must move from the town. He hoisted the British and Egyptian colours, and left two Soudanese battalions and 100 men of the Cameron Highlanders to protect the Uuion Jack. The French are awaiting instructions from Paris, as the question is regarded as one for settlement by diplomacy. It is reported that the Frenoh Government sustains Captain Marchand's claims to Fashoda, and it also claims Bahr el Ghazal.
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Manawatu Herald, 29 September 1898, Page 2
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176Fashoda Oocupied. Manawatu Herald, 29 September 1898, Page 2
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