Egypt.
The •• Daily Telegraph lf say no doubt General Kitchener will be appointed Governor-General of the Soudan on resigning his Sirdarship.
Captain Marchand has made a claim on behalf of France to Fashoda bub be was unable to show any authority to make such a claim. It transpires that Captain Marchand's French expedition arrived at Fashoda in July.
When the British force arrived Marchand's party had little food, and it would soon have been obliged to quit the town, but for Genera) Kitchener supplying it. The French newspapers,, in referring to France's claim to Fasboda, are adopting a bolder tone.
General Kitchenar'a despatches *tate that he haa annihilated tho Khalifa's army, and that Mahdism has been extinguished. The whole country haa submitted abd vast territories have been re-opened to peace and good government. Lieutenant E. D. Looh, son of Lord Looh ex« Governor of Victoria md Gape Colony, is mentioned in the despatches
The Queen 'B congratulation to General Kitchener and his army hap been gaz *tted. Mention is made of '.be re -conquest of the Nile Valley to Sobat, which is interpreted to mean the retention of Fa«hoda.
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Manawatu Herald, 4 October 1898, Page 2
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