The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-16
NEW LIGHT THROWN ON IT.
Great Britain's Friendless and
Complete Isolation.
1t Has Been Frankly Admitted by
the British Statesmen Themselves
-Corroboration of Frances Oppo-
sition to the Proposed Soudan
Campaign is Found in Dispatch
from Cairo.

LONDON, March 15.-[Copyright,
1896, by the Associated Press. 1.-The
Associated Press is able to state in
connection with the re-opened Egypt
ian question that the British govern
ment consulted and obtained the ap-
prevail of a. majority of the powers be-
fore deciding upon the advance upon
Dongola. This makes the new Soudan
campaign Of far-reaching Importance
in it's bearing upon Great Brttain's re-
lations with the European powers.
That the disclosures by recent events
of Great Britains complete and friend
less isolation in the community of ma
tons has given a shock and a feeling
of uneasiness to the responsible states
manship of Great Britain has been
frankly admitted by British statesmen
themselves. That
ENGLANDS DIPLOMACY
has been busy with efforts to make
some inroaGs into the universal hos
tile array of nations has been gener-
ally understood. When the terms of
the settlement of the dispute over the
boundaries between the possessions on
the Mekong in Indo-China of Great
Britain and France were made known,
the world expressed it's wonder at the
concessions made by Great Britain,
and the opinion was generally held
that Great Britain sought to procure
an entente with France as a consider
alton for these concessions. Many
commentators professed to see con-
firmation of this opinion in the sug-
gestion offered by the sultan a little
later to Lord Salisbury that England
should regularize the situation in
Egypt. 1t was suggested that the sui
tan's suggestion was inspired by Great
Britain itself in order to open up a
course for the evacuation of Egypt
thus relieving the present cause of ir-
ritation between Great Britain and
France. The announcement of the
NEW SOUDAN CAMPAIGN
is clear and convincing evidence that
there is to be no rapproachement be-
tween Great Britain and France If
further evidence We're needed of this it
was seen in the prolonged visit on
Friday to the foreign office of Baron
de Courcel, the French ambassador in
London, and his subsequent departure
in person for Paris to inpart the re-
suit of his interview to the French
cabinet
Confederation of Frances opposition
TO the proposed Soudan campaign is
found in the dispatch from Cairo, nam
ing as the explicit grounds of her op-
position that no movement in the Sou
dan exists warranting such a cam
paign and that the Kalifa Abdullah.
the successor of the late Mahdi Mo-
manned Ahmed, the military chief IN
der him in the former war, has lost all
his authority and has withdrawn his
loyal adherents from the Cassala dis
trict
The advance upon Dongola was de-
clded upon by the British government
with q. view to the favorable effect it
would have upon
THE ITALIAN SITUATION
in Abyssinia. as was stated by the Times,
the organ of the British cabinet, in con-
nection with its announcement of the
Soudan campaign. Almost Simultane-
ously with this announcement comes the
news of the visit of Count Goluchowski,
the AuStro-Hungarian prime minister to
Berl1ns and the statement that as a re-
suit the dreibund is to remain intact and
that the German governments irritable
attitude towards Great Britain as mani
tested over the Transvaal episode has
been Modified through the eXertionS Of
Count Goluchowski.
THE QUESTION OF THE HOUR
in European politics is whether Great
Britain has thrown in her fortunes with
the dreibund as against France and Rus
STA. The statement which has been Prom
ised for tomorrow in the house of COM
mons of the purpose of the proposed adj
vance up to the Nile by Mr. George N.
Curzon, the parliamentary secretary of
the foreign Office, is looked for with Keen
interest in the hope that it may dis
close something of the shifting of in
ternational relations now being adjusted
in Europe.