Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-19
The Campaign in Upper Egypt
Causes Widespread Discussion.
4 POSSIBLE QUADRUPLE ALLIANCE
French. Government Alarmed at
the Storm Raised.
TROOPS FOR THE FRONT


Egypt and the vast incidental results
which flow therefrom exclude all other top
les from the Lordon papers. The rap
prochement between Great Britain and the
dreibund is an accepted fact, and surmises
are INDUCED in of an effective alliance be-
| tween thes. four powers.
The Times says: "A rumor was current
in London last evening that the Italians
had evacuated kassala Saturday. We be-
| lieve the report is correct"
The Times says in an editorial: 1.-The
evacuation of Kassala will entirely alter
the whole situation for Italy, and it is only
too likely to react seriously upon the posi-
ton in Egypt"
The article also points out that England,
with the support of the dreibund, COM
! mands a majority of the Egyptian debt
commissionaires, and that therefore
Frances refusal to consent to the expense
of the Nile campaign being charged to the
Egyptian budget will not avail.
IF the Kassala news be true" the Times
goes on to say. 1.-The enemy will probably
carry the war into the territory still held
by the Italians. Under these circum-
stances. any help rendered to Italy will be
doubly welcome to Germany and Austria.
Whether Osman Digna moves in the direc-
ton of Suakin or Khartoum, he is assured
to give the Egyptian troops plenty of
work"
A dispatch from Cairo to the Times says
it is reported at Port Said that Gen. Bara-
teri passed through there incognito two
days ago. The Italian government has for
hidden the boarding Of any transports
homeward bound.
The Cairo correspondent Of the Times
Supposes that the passing ill-humor ex-
pressed there is due to the DongOla expe-
dition having been decided upon in London
before consulting the khedive. But the
palace organ, Ell Moaiad," the correspon-
dent continues, (which has been most bit
to rv1ny, Io, frho
address, exhorting the troops going to the
front to do their duty Loyalty and glo-
riously.'
The Chronicle has an. editorial which
comments upon the crisis and upon the
queens comforting colonelcy upon the
Austrian emperor, and asks whether the
dreibund has not become a quadruple al
lance.
A Berlin dispatch to the Standard quotes
a Brussels dispatch to the Vosssche lei
tung, which says that King Leopold Of Bel
GUM is going to London in April to ne
gotiate with England with reference to the
advance of the Congo State troops toward
the Nile.
The Feeling in Paris.
A Paris dispatch to the Daily Telegraph
says:
1.-THE Marquis Of Dufferin had another
interview today with NJ. Berthelot, at the
weekly foreign office reception. Everybody
regards NJ. Berthelot's note throwing
down the gauntlet to England: Some poll.
ticians view 1t in the light Of q practical
ultimatum. Denunciatton of England is
heard on all sides. Nobody behind the
scenes believes that the foreign Office is
at secret council. The fact must be pat
ent to all that the government has not
played its cards very cleverly, because, at
the moment when England was isolated,
a false move on the part of France has
served to bring England and the drei-
bund again into harmony"
The Paris correspondent of the Daily
News says: THE French official position
on the Egyptian question seems vague and
uncertain. 1t seems this morning as if
the worst might happen. The popular half
penny papers had flaming headings, her
aiding The French Ultimatu1n for Eng
land etc. Tonight the official weather.
cock has changed and the tone Is almost
propi-iatory. The Marquis Of Duffern
must have been extremely surprised when
be read the first account of his interview
The Daily News also has a dispatch from
Berlin, which says: 1.-The attitude of the
dreibund must exercise a calming influ-
ence even upon Russia. 1t is therefore
doubtful. despite the Russo-Turkish en-
tente, whether the sultan will be hopeful
enough of Russian support to assist
France in opposing the Nile expedition
Egyptian Troops or For the Front.
The khedive at Cairo yesterday witnessed
the departure of the Egyptian battalion for
the front. He babe cordial farewell to
| the officers of the battalion.
The reserves are arriving at Cairo and
new Soudanese battalions are forming
Col Hunter. with a strong advance guard,
will proceed Immediately to Akashes which
will be strongly fortified.
The Arab-Anglophobe press violently at
tack the expedition and accuse Lord Sails
bury and Mr.. Curzon, who made the state
ment of the purposes Of the expedition in
the house of commons, of falsehoods
Too Much Patriotism Aroused.
The French government gives evidence
that the announcement made by M. Ber-
thelot of the remonstrance he had offered
against the Egyptian campaign up the
Nile in a conversation with the Marquis of
Dufferin has been taken much more seri-
ously than they were prepared for. The
outbreak of approval from the French
press and the people and the popular
clamor for even more decisive measures of
protest seem to have alarmed the govern
ment and awakened an apprehension that
hey are being precipitated into a position
of hostility to the plan of Great Britain,
backed by the approval of the dreibund,
which might entail the gravest conse-
auences. The enthusiasm awakened in
France, in fact, seems to enter more into