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BUT FRANCE AT THE SAME TIME
IS HURRYING WAR PREP
ARATTONS
RIGHT BY OCCUPATION
THE REPUBLICS PLEA
FASHoDA YELLOW HOOK URcES
a PRIORITY OF CLAIM IN
TIE sOUDAN
SALISBURY STANDS
IN THE NEGOl

The MaFchand Expedition Brushed
Aside as Too Trivial a Pretext
Upon Which to Base Claim to
Rights I'm the Nile Vauey-Of-
hciai Note Disclaims Any Idea of
War With England.
CHERBOURG, France, Oct. 23.-Or-
ders have been received at the military
and naval alsenals here to prepare for
the arrival Of a large body of troops
tomorrow. The barracks are being
hurriedly put in order for their recep-
ton.
PARIS, Oct ga semi-oflicfal nots
issued this evening says: There is no
foundation for the alarmist rurnors ~re-
garding the relations between France
and Great Britain. It is equally incor-
rect to say that extraordinary meas
ures have been taken at any Of our
naval ports
The Fashoda yellow book is volu-
ninous, but it does include Maj. Mar
Glands report, which will be published
later. The dispatches were largely an
ticipated by the English Fashoda blue
book
The diplomatic conversations record
ed show a curious endeavor on the
French side to represent that Mar
chand's mission was quite as important
as Gen. Kitchener's, on the ground
that the struggle was against the kha-
l1fa and barbarism
On Sept. Is NJ. de Ia Case, the French
foreign minister, informed the British
ambassador to France, Sir Edmund
Monson, in explicit language, that
France did not regard Lord o'~''~h''rv'a
claim to the Soudan, by vir
quest, as applying to Fasht
ground that the Marchand
went to the relief of the Fl
ditiOn under Capt. Licolard,
ed from a period long befor
ration in the house of conn
Edward Grey, under secretary VI s.e..,,
for foreign affairs in Lord Rosebery's
cabinet, as to the policy of the British
government toward the Soudan, and
at a time when the equatorial provinces
were lost to civilization. In fact, NJ.
de Ia Case argued, unless Great Britain
possessed the sultan's mandate, as we'll
as the khedive's, to acquire all former
Egyptian provinces, France considered
herself equally entitled with England
to possession of any point occupied by
French officers
FRENCH POINT OF VIEW.
Judging from the yellow book dis
kol,A A.
French standpoint, and NJ. de la Case
contends that as Marchand reached
Fashoda first, England has no right
to demand an evacuation of Fashoda
prior to negotiations.
On Sept. 80 NJ. de la Case declared to
Sir Edmund Monson that such a de-
mand would be equivalent to an ulti-
matum, and while he could afford to
sacrifice Frances material interests, so
long as her honor was intact, for the
sake of the Anglo-French entente, no
one could doubt what would be the re-
ply of France to such demand.
The subsequent dispatches appearing
in the yellow book relate to conversa-
tions between Baron de Courcel, French
ambassador in London, and Lord Sails
bury, the latter contending that the
capture Of Khartoum entitled Egypt to
possession of all the mahdi's domin-
ions, and the French ambassador argu-
ing that Maj. Marchand had captured
Fashoda before Gen. Kitchener took
Khartoum, and that France had for
long time held actual possession in the
Bahr-el- Ghazel.
Lord Salisbury retorted that the
French forces in the region referred to
were too weak to constitute effective
occupation.
A final dispatch dated Oct. IL, from
Baron de CourceI to M. de la Case. re-
cords a conversation with Lord Sails
bury, in which the French ambassador
claimed access to the Nile through
Bahr-el- Ghazel, and asked an amicable
delimitation of the respective spheres
Of interest of the two powers, in reply
to which Lord Salisbury indicated that
it would be necessary for him to consult
his colleagues.