CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 18 October 1898, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London.

Lord Roseberry, in the coarse of his speech referring to the Faihoda, incident, said there was too much disposition to encroach on British rights and treat Great Britain as a negligeable quantity. Her eon oiliatory attitude was widely mis* anderstoon, and if continued it would only end in a disastrous conflagra* tion.

Mr H. H. Asquith, who wa9 Home Secretary in the last Liberal Administration, has in a speech reechoed Lord Bosebery's utterance in support of Lord Salisbury's policy with regard to the F&shod% question. He reminded his hearers that any dispaasionate statesman would have to admit that France* firmer acknowledgments as to Egypt's olaim to Fashoda had not lapsed.

The Times says that in return for abandoning all claim to Fashoda, France would accept a commercial post on the Nile or at the entrance to the Bahr-el Ghazal, one of the ohief tributaries of the White Nile, which chains territory claimed by France between Frenoh Congo and the Nile.

The semi-official journal " Novoe Vremyr" states that France, thanks to her present rulers, is on the eve of a diplomatic defeat.

An officer attached to Major Mar. ohand's force is hurrying to Cairo with a code reply to the message sent by M. Deloa9se, the French Foreign Minister.