CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 1 November 1898, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

England and France.

BRITISH PROTECTORATE OVER EGYPT. The Cabinet sat in Oounoil for over two boars to-day. Baron de Counsel, the French Ambassador in London, and Lord Salisbury, the Prime Minister, have held a prolonged interview. It is ramopred in Paris that Great Britain is about to proclaim a protectorate over Egypt. Egyptian boats are re-establishing posts on the Bahr-el-Ghazal, the great branch of the Nile which drains the territory now claimed by France Affairs are quietening down in Paris. Proclamations are ready to be issued from the British War Office summoning the army reserve, the militia, and the volunteer foroes for active service. In the course of a speech at Aberystwith last night, Sir William Harcourt, Leader of the Opposition declared that it was the duty of all the people to support the Government at the time of such an unexampled crisis as the present. " St. James' Gazette " states that the rumoured proclamation of a British protectorate over Egypt is credited in well-informed circles. The French press asserts that Russia has promised shortly to assist in raising the whole Egyptian question. General Kitchener, who has just returned from the Soudan, urges the creation of an Egyptian Navy. The Times says that the Cabinet has endorsed Lord Salisbury's policy with regard to Faahoda. The Stavdard states that the British Government has decided to show Major Marchand every hospitality and not deport him from Fashoda, but simply to disregard his presence, and not permit him to obtain munitions of War. .. The Paris correspondent of the Standard says that the condition of Major Marchand's mission is such as to make it impossible for him to ■tarry longer at Fashoda. His men, the correspondent says, are dying of hunger, and disease, and Major Marchand intends to ask for permission to withdraw. The French agency in Egypt has telegraphed to the Government that Major Marchand has volunteered to bring hia own completed despatches to Cairo, and has already reached Khartoum, leaving Lieutenant Germain in charge of his foroes at Faohoda. Bartier, Major Marchand's mes. senger, has left Paris on his return to Egypt, carrying Government instructions to Marohand. The Paris correspondent of the Times (M. Blowitz) anticipates that there is a prospect of France with, drawing Major Marchand from Fashoda, coupled with a refusal to enter into ulterior negotiations, intending to wait for a favourable opportunity to re-open the question.