The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-10-12
FRANCE and RUSSIA.
Preparations for Receiving the
Cars Fleet at Toulon.
THE PREJUDICE AGAINST ENGLAND
French Newspapers Charge That tho At
tack Of the Moors Mt MeIilIa Is Another
Evidence of British Psrfdy-Ambassa-
dor Eustis' First Reception,

tack Of the Moors at MeliIIa Is Another
Evidence of British Perady-Ambassa-
dor Eustis' First Reception.
Copyright, 1903 by the United Press,1
PARIS Oct. 12-The reception of the
Russian fleet at Toulon ia but a day off.
and the Russian fever grows hourly in in.
tensity. The newspapers now give daily
long lists of Russian officials and dig
nitaries who have come to Paris to witness
the fetes. Russian decorations are seen
everywhere in such variety and beauty as
would not be possible in any other con-
tinental capitol. Designers and manu-
facturers have been put to their wits ends
to produce novelties which will appeal to
the popular fancies. 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 tho restau-
rants.
| Even while thus preoccupied the French
editors have not missed a very sma II
chance to bait John Bull. They have
found in the attack of the Moors on the
dence of English perfdy. 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 aud
Morocco. There Is little doubt that both
France and England are anxious for a
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-
willing probably to use the sultan's pres
ent 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 nc
tivlty among the savages. Ono 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 protectorate over Morocco.
The Figaro declares that William Wood
all, financial secretary in the British war
department, and a certain lord of the nd-
miralty has sailed on the gunboat Bram-
BILE from Gibraltar for Tangier, where
they will take hand in Moorish affairs,
These surprising stories, although sup
ported only by The Figaros word, are
swallowed by many Parisians of intelli-
gence and by the whole rank and lle OF
newspaper readers.
The Republique Franchise urges Spain
to punish the Moors as they deserve, re-
gardless of British sulks, and not allow
herself to be intimldated, as was Portugal,
by England's frown.
The first official reception of the diplo-
matte corps ever held at the embassy of
the United States will take place enrly In
November Had Mr.. Eustis come as min
lister, instead of ambassador, he would
have been required by diplomatic etiquette
to pay personal visits to The other diplo.
mstists as soon as he had presented his
credentials TO President Carnot. As au
ambassador, however, he simply issues a
kind of circular note stating the day on
which he will receive his colleagues, and
thus place them under the obligation to
call upon him first
Marshal Mcmahon, whose illness has
caused his friends much alarm in the last
week, is resting we'll today, but his condi-
tion Is still critical. There is no prospect
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,