San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-27
THE ENGLISH PRESS IN RETURN
ABUSES HIM SAYINGssTHAT
HE SEEKS N0TRIETY,
He Says England Will Never Be
Satisfied Until Her Flag Waves
From One Side Of Africa To
The Other. And She Has
Engulfei the Nile Valley.

New York, March PA dispatch
to the Herald from London says that
the letters written by Prince Henri
DOrleanS to the Herald and Paris
Figaro since his departure upon his
exploring mission to Abyssinia have
dropped like bombs into the camp of
the English papers.
The Times, editOrially, says:
Prince Henry now repeats without
evidence all the stale calumnieS he
can collect against his former hosts
and reserves his hOneyed compliments
for King Menelik, to whose court he
designs to travel. AS n contribution
to moral science it is characteristic
that the moment which he has chos-
en- for making his attack on England
is the moment when our relations
with the government of the republic
are particularly friendly. Nothing
could have been in better taste than
the attitude and language which for
many months past the plain citizens
who have raised been under the pro-
ent constitution to direct the fortunes
of France have habitually employed
Western Europe The scion of the
Burbons might learn from them a les
son that "nobleSse Oblige" whether the
nobility in question be that of birth
or that of rank and responsibility"
The Daily Telegraph says: "Pertid
iOus Albion is the theme of the two
letters addressed by Prince Henri
D'Orleans from DjibOuti while on his
way to King Menelik's court. Prince
Henri explains that he was induced
to make the journey by the thought
that England is remaining in Egypt
in spite of her engagements. She is
sending troops to Dongola. She has
tried to eXpel Christian missions from
Ugandi. She has brutally hurried
armed bands on the pacific Beers and
INSTRUCTED free navigation on the Nj
ger. The Prince says that eyes are
being turned toward Abyssinia as a
means of curbing the unbounded and
INSCRIPTIONS ambition of Great Brit
ain in Africa. Here was an Opportun-
ity of making himself useful so he
sped on his way, despite all difficult |
les with which his departure was be-
set. But when he reached Cairo on |
his route the French minister had two |
audiences with the Khedive and con- |
versed with members of the Egyptian |
government and many of his own fell |
low cOuntrymen-men who were par, |
ticularly we'll informed.
81 found he said, a unanimous |
opinion prevailing among all with |
whom l talked. They showed me |
that clean sweep had been made of |
the past, that all the government had |
disappeared before the will of Eng |
land, represented by Lord CrOmer. |
That it was alike impossible to secure |
respect for the right to reply or In |
fact to do anything. They enabled |
me to perceive the pretidy and lack |
of good faith of English policies. They |
explained to me the artifice with |
which England got the bOndhOlders
to believe that Egyptian finances were
in good condition; whereas, in four
teen years, from 1888 to 1896, the
English occupation had cost Egypt
525, 100000 francs
"Such was the stupendous informa-
ton which Prince Henri received
from his stay in Cairo. Not content
with this, he calls up visions Of the
Union Jack floating from the Egyp-
tan capitol to the cape Of England's
occupation on the coast of Arabia
and on the Persian gulf from Port
Said to India and he thus concludes
his diatribe:
lowing to disputes in France and
European dissension, the Leopard will ,
have extended his claws over the rich
or half of the world. Our power
abroad will have been ruined. This
s the danger. The way Of preventing
t is to be found in an agreement Of
LII the European powers to exact re-
'pect for treaties and in International
cation of the valley Of the Nile
eve have been treated to similar
after the princes jour
ley to the far east and to Madagascar /
md this one seems to be full of equal
promise in the same direction, the l
Ibuse Of Albion being apparently re- I
,arded as the royal road to populari-
y"