The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-30
POLITICS In FRANCE.
ONCE MORE IN A HIGHLY PER-
TURBED CONDITION.
Indications that the Government
VIII Seek to Retrace Some of the
Steps it Has Recently Taken in
Regard to Egypt.

| PARIS, March 29.-The political world
of France is again in a highly perturbed
condition, and there are indications go
/ ing to show that the government seeks
| to retrace some of the steps by which
! it has been placed in the position of i'm
potent acquiescence in the dispatch of an
Egyptian expedition up the Nile, and
| the defraying of the expenses of it out of
the Egyptian debt surplus. The govern
n ent will be interpellated in the chamber
of deputies tomorrow and the ministry
will be under the necessity of making
some kind of statement on the reply. An
| important debate is expected to result
and there is feeling in some quarters
that far-reaching changes of policy may
be announced
night and numerous runors are current
of grave things that are in contemplation
Among those which are circumstantially
formulated are that the resignation of NJ
Berthelot, as minister of foreign affairs
announced yesterday, was due TO the
wish of NJ. Borgeois, the premier, to re-
call Baron de Courcel, the French am
bassador in London; that Frances naval
reserve squadron has been ordered placed
upon war footing. and that France and
Russia will convene
A EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
debt commission to act against the vote
of a minority of the powers guaranteeing
the debt, and to discuss also the eyacua-
ton of Egypt.
men that the entente between Great
Britain and the dreibund as a whole is
not as cordial as it was believed it was
when the Nile expedition was first an
nounced. The signs of the unreconciIed
attitude of Germany towards Great
Britain have been keenly noted in France
Tor two weeks past and the conviction has
grown that Germany, though glad to
avan herself OF Great Britain's assist
ance to her ally, Italy, will not take a
more lenlent view on that act or any
otner forward movements by Great Brit
ain. Whether the disturbed condition of
affairs in South Africa
GIVES FRANCE A HOPE
that, there will be inserted the wedge to
break asunder again the newly formed
friendship of Great Britain and Germany
Is . a matter OF surmise- But that France
the drelDund as less formidable, because
Tess Well assured, is evident from MANY
things -iliiS
How far the French ministry will re
sumo the stiff attitude of protest against
the Nile expedition, adopted in NJ Rer
thelots report of his communication to
Lord Dufferin when the expedition was
nrst announced and subsequently soft
ened m consequence of the outbreak of
unbridled French patriots, is the cues
ton of first interest in Paris tonight
and which it is hoped will be answered
in the chamber of deputies.
NO DOUBT.
The Paris correspondent of the Times
says there is no doubt that M. BertheIot
resigned rather than abandon his pru-
dent policy, and because he would not
risk being Obliged to use the foreign
policy as an instrument of the home
government.
"a semi-oficial note issued at mid
night says: THE active SQUADRON AZ
Toulon has received orders for one of
it's cruisers to keep steam up.