The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-19
FRANCE ANeRY Ar ENGLAND.
Biitaln's Soudan Move ProvolSes Critica
Situation.


Britaln's Soudan Move Provoles a Critical
situation.
Paris, March Ism. Francis Charmes,
the eminent journalist and member of
the chamber of deputies, informs the
United Press that he has talked with
Premier Bourgeois and M. Berthelot,
minister of foreign affairs, upon the sit
uation in Africa, especially in regard
to Egypt and the Soudan, and both
consider the position extremely grave,
NJ. Etienne. vice president of the
chamber of deputies, presided over a
meeting of the colonial group in the
chamber this afternoon to consider the
situation.
The French press this morning unan-
inlously approves the attitude assumed
by M. Berthelot, the French minister of
foreign affairs, in regard to the British
expedition to Dongola, and advises him
to persist in the energetic policy which
he has adopted.
The Figaro says: "Great Britain's at
titude in Egypt is an outrage upon all
Europe. Lord Salisbury and his cabi-
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than they would have wished through
the action of Lord Cromer British dip
lomatic agent in Egypt Only $500
troops are being sent into the Soudan
instead of the necessary 10000, and
Lord Cromer is specializing upon this
fact for check to the advance of the
British forces which will involve the
amour propre of England and delay
her evacuation of Egypt. Europe must
not be caught in SO clumsy trap"
The Gaulois says: m. Berthelots ac-
tion is the result of intimation from the
Khedive that if France stood with fold
ed arms nothing remained for him to do
but to support England"
A dispatch to the Figaro from Toulon
says that Admiral Maigret's squadron,
which has been stationed in the Levant,
has been ordered to proceed into Egyp-
tian waters.
London, March 1S.-A dispatch to the
Pail Mall Gazette from Rome says that
France and Russia are intriguing to de-
tach Italy from the Dreibund.
The st. James Gazette makes no Sc
cret of the desire of Great Britain not
to evacuate the Nile valley, but thinks
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definite information of the present ex-
petition into the Soudan to a somewhat
dubious and disturbed public.
The provincial newspapers which
support the government are exceeding
Iy lukewarn. The Manchester Guardi-
an says that many conservatives view
the Egyptian policy of the government
with increasing suspicion.
The Birmingham Post says: 1.-THE
lack of enthusiasm on the government
benches over the idea of reconquering
the Soudan is suspicious and this re-
serve will not be removed unless strong
er reasons for the expedition are Civ
en-
A dispatch to the Globe from Cairo
says that Mr.. Curzon's statement in the
British house of commons on Monday
in regard to the Soudan expedition has
created great sensation there, the
gravity of the situation being fully
realized. The consensus of opinion in
Cairo is that more troops are urgently
required.
At the request of the Congregational
Union the Rev. J. Guinness Rogers, the
celebrated Congregational minister and
WRITER, mas addressed u leLIeT 10 the
churches on political affairs, in which
he urges the churches to advocate a
righteous policy. Mr.. Rogers refers to
the moderating influences of the
churches in England and America up
on the Venezuela dispute and the
Transvaal trouble. and closes with the
warning not to mistake buster for
strength.
Italian securities fell point on the
stock exchange to-day and Egyptians
fell ".