ENGLAND & FRANCE.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 369, 10 December 1898, Page 2

ENGLAND & FRANCE.

SPEECH BY SIR E. MONSON. PLAIN SPEAKING. LOED KITCHENER LEFT FOR EG7PT. MAJOR MARCHAND TO LEAVE FASHODA NEXT WEEK. [united press association] (by electric telegraph—copyright) Paris, December 7. Sir Edmund Monson, British Ambassador, made a sensational speech before the British Chamber of Commerce in Paris. British policy, he declared, was truthful and straightforward and plain speaking, the best guarantee of amity. He deprecated the irritation caused by constant pinpricks, and declared that euceuragement to the scheme for the founding by France of a native educational establishment at Khartoum and Fashoda might lead Great Britain further than she desired to go. French newspapers, commenting on Sir E. Monson's speech, complain of the arrogance of the British. English newspapers question Sir E. Monson's discretion in making the speech. December 8. Sir Edmund Monson's speech has occasioned intense surprise in Paris, and has created an uneasy feeling that good is not likely to result from his remarks. The newspapers are unanimous in protesting against the speech. La Liberte says that M. Delcasse should not fail to instruct M. Cambon, the Ambassador in London, to ask Lord Salisbury if he sanctioned the speech. The Temps believes that the language exceeds the speaker's intention ; t certainly exceeded Great Britain's ntention. The Ministerial organs disavow the scheme of M. Deloncle, the Minister for Commerce, to establish schools at Khartoum and Fashoda. The Daily News states that M. Delcasse regards the scheme for native schools as absurdly impracticable. Londox, December 7. Lord Kitchener has again started for Egypt. A British officer from Fashoda reports that -he visited Meshraerak, a town at the junction of the rivers Jur and Bahr-el-Ghazal, some 200 miles south»west of Fashoda. He does not mention any French posts there, but he found three others elsewhere iu the Bahr-el-Ghazal region. (Received December 9, 7.55 p.m.) Cairo, December 9. Major Marchand leaves Fashoda for Jibutil next week.