FRANCE AND ENGLAND.
THE FASHODA TROUBLE. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT). Cairo, October 15. An officer attached to Captain Marchand's force at Fashoda is hurrying to Cairo with a code reply to M. Delcasse's message. London, October 14. Mr Asquith, who was Home Secretary in the last Liberal Administration, has re-echoed Lord Rosebery's utterances with regard to Fashoda. He reminded his hearers that any dispassionate statesman would have to admit that Fiance's acknowledgement of Egypt's claim to Fashoda bad 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- Gbazel, one of tbe cbief tributaries of the White Nile. At a meeting of the Congregational Union, the members applauded the Rev. Guinness Rogers' statement that the French claim to Fashoda was childish and a compromise impossible. St. Petersburg, October 14. The semi-official journal Novoe Vremya states that France, thanks to her present rulers, is on the eve of a diplomatic defeat. Paris, October 14.. The newspapers L'Entransigeant and the Gaulois ask what is the use of the Russian alliance to France.
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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 355, 18 October 1898, Page 2
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189FRANCE AND ENGLAND. Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 355, 18 October 1898, Page 2
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