The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-10-12
FRANTE AND RUSSIA.
Preparations for Receiving the
Czar's Fleet at Toulon.
THE PREJUDICE AGAINST ENGLAND.
French Newspapers Charge That the At
tack of the Moors at Melilia Is Another
Evidence of British PerHdy-Ambassa-
dor Eustis' First Reception.

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PARIS. Oct. 12.-The reception Of the
Russian fleet at Toulon is but a day off,
and the Russian fever grows hourly i'm in
tensity. The newspapers now give daily
long lists of Russian officials and dig
nitaries who have come to Paristo witness
the fetes Russian decorations are seen
everywhere in such variety and beauty as
would not be possible in any other con
biuental capitol Designers and manu-
tacturers have been put to their Wits ends
to produce novelties which will appeal to
the popular fauCies The shops have in
their windows full length portraits of the
car and of Admiral Avelan, who com
mands the visiting squadron. Within are
shown toys and bric-a- brac adorned with
the Russian eagle or with the French and
Russian arms combined. Russian and
French cOlors are entwined in the restau-
rants,
! Even while thus preoccupied the French
editors have not missed a very small
chance to bait John Bull They have
found in the attack of the Moors on the
Spaniards at Melilla only another evil
deuce Of English perfidy. They have
reused anew French prejudice against the
Briton by declaring that English ennis
saries were behind the outbreak, and that
England is only waiting for an oppor-
tunity to interfere between Spain and
Morocco There is little doubt that both
France and England are anxious for q
chance to present to Sultan Muley Hassan
treaties similar to the ones he recently re-
fused to sign for them. Neither the French
nor the British government would be un-
. will ~ q, 20 f,rna
ant trouble with Spain to secure such an
end. This rivalry to obtain the benefits
Of the Melilla affair is one source of French
jealousy.
The Figaro has outdone all competitors
In attacking England. 1t has published
remarkable rumors to prove England's ac-
tivity among the savages. One of its
stories is that Sir Henry Drummond-
Wolff English ambassador in Madrid, has
been instructed to induce Spain to organ
lie a complete military expedition against
the Moors, Lord Roseberry believing that
the sultan when hard pressed would call
on England for help and thus open the
way for her prOteCturate over Morocco
The Figaro declares that William Wood
all, financial secretary in the British wal
department, and a certain lord of the ad
miralty has sailed on the gunboat Bran
Bile from Gibraltar for Tangier, wher,
they will take a hand in Moorish affairs
These surprising stories, although sup
ported only by The Figaro's word, ar
swallowed by many Parisans of intelli
gence and by the whole rank and file o
newspaper readers.
The Republique Francaise urges Spain
to punish the Moors as they deserve, re
gardless of British sulks, and not ALLOW
herself to be intimidated, as was Portugal
by Bngland's frown.
The first official reception of the diplc
matte corps ever held at the embassy O
the United States viii take place early il
I November. Had Mr.. Eusts come as mir
lister, instead of ambassador, he woul
have been required bydiplomatic etiquett
to pay personal visits to the other dip
aatists as soon as he had presented
credentials to President Carnot. As a
ambassador, however, he simply issues
kind of circular note stating the day o
which he will receive his colleagues, an
thus place them under the obligation t.
call upon him first.
Marshal McMahon, whose illness ha
caused his friends much alarm in the las
week, is resting well today, but his condt
ton is still critical There is no prospec
of his attending the banquet to the Rus
slams, 1t is reported that Count Ferdi
nand de Lesseps has recovered fully from
his recent acute illness.