The age-herald., 1898-11-01
PREPARING FOR
 THE COMING WAR Unexpected Gloomy Feeling On
 Stock Exchange, CRISIS SEEMS APPROACHING The Britis nergency Squad ron Is C= ring at Davenport.
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 SIGNAL .H ORDERED HOME
 fc.N Office g Sailors HurriedIy Recalled < om Leave of Absence. FRANCE MAY YIELD TO BRITAIN The Eclair Says That the Fashoda Dis- pute Will Be Settled Favorable to England Delcasse Will Raise the Entire Question.
FRANCE MAY YIELD TO BRITAIN

London, October 31.-There was an unex- pected gloomy feeling this morning on the Stock Exchange and the Paris Bourse, both these markets being influenced it is inferred, from the aggressive tone of the French newspapers.
 Besides this, something extraordinary seems to have happened, and it looks as if crisis were approaching. The British na- val preparations are certainly being pushed with great activity. - The British emergency squadron is gath ering at Davenport with all possible speed. Seven battleships and one criuser have thus far been designated to the other squadrons. Officers and sailors have been hurriedly recalled from leave of absence, several bat tleships and criusers at Portsmouth arc taking their full crews on board and other warlike preparations are being made s A number of signal men, now on duty. | with the British channel squadron, which arrived at Gibralter this morning have been ordered home for service, 1t is pre- stunned, on board the auxiliary cruisers if the latter should be required for active service
 Sensation Caused
 A sensation has been caused by the ar rest this morning of a supposed Russian spy at town near Harwich The man was already under surveillance, and went to Re- oouDt, where he tried to obtain some in- formation from a sentry regarding the Notifications. He was promptly arrested ana inquiries are being made regarding his antecedents ~
 It was also asserted today that the com- manding officers of the London volunteer regiments had received orders to prena re TOT immediate mobolization, and it was as- serted that the different artillery corps nave been informed as to the forts on the southern and eastern coasts to which they have been allotted
 The Pail Mall Gazette this afternoon says. Engiand has been and even now Is so near war that the government carried i's preparations to the farthest limit of the preparatory stage It has been arranged 10 call out the reserve and militia and to hoDiiize the volunteers simultaneously and to form large camps at various important @ cures @ where rolling stock and iocomo- tiVes VIII De concentra ted'
 Paris, October 31.-The Eclair today cave II learns on reliable authority that inc fashoda question will be settled favorably to Great Britain by the recall of Major Muarchahd. M France, the paper adds yields all, reserving only the question of the r;gb, to the Bahr-El-GhazaI district which she ooes not consider as belonging to Egynt
 continuing, the Eclair remarks: M De,- casse, however, has now decided to rai, hoe ha,,o "noie h egyptian question, which should nave been done from the first and th,,s avoiding the Humiliation of yielding to th+ nItish uitimatum. When the ouestiop is mus enlarged, France will not be alone Tn ,.s uiscussion with the Marquis of salis- bury. Egypt interests all the povsxe pms sia mas promised M. Decasse fts nost as iecuVe assistance and besides Germonv ,Ias the biggest interest, in view of bar E1ast AIrlcan possession and trade in tha Tar east that the Suez Canal should not he come exclusively British and fs a,.n.s to support France Russian arprments fo. a definite settlement Of the F,pyr,,an s,a. tion' e' P'iah ques-
 Request for Silence
 London November 1.-The Daily Ma, this morning publishes no news regard,,s Ehsianos war preparations, explaining that @ shence IS due to letter from the war once asking 1t not to publish "anvtbing whicn might be useful to a possible one my" p"Sioie ehe-
 we intend to ascertain today.'' save IL. Daily Mail, from the war office and the admiralty exactly what kind of naws ,t would be permissible to publish
 The Daily Mail confirms the renor,. .. unexampled activity at the Fre,,i,h uL yards, notably at Toulon, where tha cnast Ior,s nave been experiencing with Malinite shells against an old gunboat.
 Dispatched to Fashoda
 London. November 1.-The corresnonaa.. or the Daily Mail says an Eevntian ha. talion has been dispatched to Fashoao
 
 Tobacco Factory Destroyed
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