Fashoda Evacuated.
A brilliant banquet was held at Guildhall on the occasion of the con forment of the Freedom of the City of Lnndon on General Kitchener. The Duke of Cambridge, Lord Roberts, Wolaeley and Ro3ebery and the Agents-General were present. Lord Salisbury announced that France had intimated Fashoda, being useless to her. would be evacuated. This decision he said n&3 gratifying and somewhat unexpected, but it would terminate a dangerous controversy. He expected further discussion would take place with regard to the Nile Valley. General Kitchener eulogised the Egyptian soldiers, and emphasised the commercial value of the Soudan. T3ir Willian Vernon Harcourt eulogised General Kitchener's chivalrous treatment of Major Marchand
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Manawatu Herald, 8 November 1898, Page 2
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111Fashoda Evacuated. Manawatu Herald, 8 November 1898, Page 2
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