Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-06-13
THE nuonEsIAN POLICY.

Dr. Leyds. the Transvaal Secretary Vi
State: Mr.. Chamberlain, the British Ooio-
NAL Secretary; Sir william vernon mar
court. and several other members OF Par
lament of both parties, sat down 'o-
gether at a cittle dinner the other oay'
since when. II is noticed that "red'
Britain has modified her bullying tone
towards the Beers. This little love ieast
and the consequent post-prandiai anna
bllity OF the British Foreign ONCE, are
taken in certain quarters to mean tha'
Great Britain has abandoned the hho-
desian policy. Hardly. The Jamisoh
trial. the facts brought out in the Rhodes
investigation, the assumption by cape
Colony OF a part OF the burden of sup
porting the British navy. and various
other facts and signs, go 10 show that
the Rhodeslan policy-the policy Of es-
tablishlng British domination from the
Cape to the Mediterranean-is fixed, and
sooner or later will be consummated.
The truth probably is that the Cape OF
Good Hope end Of the Rhodesian policy
Is being simply RELOCATED temporarily 10
the innocuous desuetude Of diplomacy
seeing that just at present Great Britain
has most important and most pressing
work TO do at the other end OF the policy
Last winter the British Parliament APP
proprjated money for a second advance
UP the Me against the Dervshes. the
appropriation including sum for the
building of a railway across the desert
from Wady Halfa to Abu Hamid. In the
mean time, the French, IT is stated, have
obtained a concession for the construc-
ton of a railroad from their port Of Dill
BOUT to Harrar, at the foot Of the Abys-
sinian highlands; the Italians are getting
ready TO quit their most important pos
sessions on the Red Sea llttoral. and the
Khalfa is massing forces from Darfur
and other provinces at Omdurman. The
concession TO the French referred to In
wolves another menace to British infu-
ence in Abyssnia. the contemplated ac-
ton Of Italy, which was placed on guard
in Africa by Great Britain. is calculated
TO lower the prestige of her sponsor In
large area Of territory, and these crcum-
stances, together WIN t"S aNti'4eJ Va Wv
Dervishes, render it necessary that the
British should push the reconquest Of the
Soudan. To that end, 1t is believed,
Great Britain will now concentrate all
her energies in Africa. All British off,
GERS I'm the Egyptian army now on leave
have been ordered to be at their posts
between the middle and the end OF this
month. and II is understood that the
second advance will commence about the
18th Of July. Whether this summers eX-
pedition will attempt to complete the re-
conquest. or merely, as did last years
expedition, make sure of opening the
way for another advance. remains to be
seen. but the current opinion is that the
present intention of the British authori-
ties is a fight to the finish before the
year is out. But. however that may be-
the advance up the Nile is as much
step towards the realization OF the Rho
deslan policy as would be the forcing OF
the Beers TO trek out of the Transvaal.
The sooner the Egyptian flag, as Sails
bury courteously put it, when he really
meant the British flag, floats over the
Soudan again, the sooner the extremes
Of the Rhodesian policy will meet.