FRANCE AND ENGLAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 84, 13 April 1904, Page 3

FRANCE AND ENGLAND.

RELATIONS WITH ALGERIA. "V - LONDON. April 11. France, under l!ie new agreement, undertakes not to fortify the coast between Milianah, in Algeria, and the right hank of the Seleer H»v?r. NEWFOUNDLAND AND THE SOUDAN. A RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT S VIEWS. (Received April 13, 0.43 a.m.) LONDON, April 12. Arbitration will be utilised to settle the indemnity due to Frenchmen engaged in fishing and curing on thetreaty shore of Newfoundland. They will be compelled, owing to the present agreement, to relinquish the industry ami their estahlislunents. Tho British concessions to Franco northwards of Sokoto, in the Soudan, consist of eight thousand jniles, chiefly desert. Tho agreement provides for the least disturbance of existing conditions in the various countries inclinled in the arrangements. M. NalidolT, Russian Ambassador to France, in an interview, eulogised the settlement of the Egypt and Morocco questions, lip added that Russians would In* delighted, as allies, at this fresh guarantee of strength and security accruing to Fiance. "Moreover," the Anvlfassador continued, "there is a proverb which ways 'a friend's friends are our frimds.' Who knows whether the provertj may not be verilivd afresh ?"'