Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-24
WHICH WILL YIELD 2.
All the World Now Watching
England and France.
England Assembling Large Fleet, Evil
IDENTITY Preparing for War.
French Fashoda Yellow Book Claims England rs
Position Is Faulty.

Paris, Oct. ga semi -official note is
foundation for the alarmist rumors re-
garding the relations between France
and Great Britain. 1t is equally in
correct to say that extraordinary
measures have been taken at any of
our naval ports"
The Fashoda Yellow Book is volum-
nous but it does not include Major
Marchand's report which will be pub
lished later. The dispatches were
largely anticipated by the England
Fashoda Blue Book. The diplomatic
conversations recorded show a curious
endeavor on the French side to repre-
sent that Marchand's mission was quite
as important as Gen. Kitchener's, on
the ground that the struggle was
against the khalifa and barbarism
On Sept. Is. M. Delcasse, the foreign
minister. informed the British ambas-
s;ador to France, Sir Edmund Monsoon,
in explicit language that France did
not regard Lord Salisbury's claim to
the Soudan by virtue of conquest as
applying to Fashoda, on the ground
that the expedition under Capt. Liotard
the declaration in the House of Com
mons by Sir Edward Grey, under sec
rotary of state for foreign affairs in
Lord Roseberry's cabinet, as to the
policy of the British government to-
ward the Soudan, and at time when
the equatorial provinces We're lost to
civilization.
In fact, VI. Dalcasse argued unless
Great Britain possessed the Sultan's
mandate as wen as the Khedive's 10
acquire all former Egyptian provinces,
France considered herself equally en-
titled with England to possession of
any point occupied by French officers.
Judging from the Yellow Book dis
patches, the foregoing represents the
French standpoint, and NJ. Delcasse
contends that as Marchand reached
kashoda first, England has no right to
demand an evacuation of Fashoda
prior ito negotiations.
On Sept. 30, NJ. Delcasse declared to
Sir Edmund Mondon that such 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 q demand
The subsequent dispatches appear
ing in the Yellow Book, relate to con-
versations between Baron de Courcel,
French ambassador in London, and
Lord Salisbury, the latter contending
that the capture of khartoum entitled
Egypt to possession of all Mahdi'S do
rninions. and the French ambassador
arguing that Major Marchand had cap
tured Fashoda before Gen. Kitchener
took khartoum and that France had
for a long time held several posts in
the Bahr- Ei-Gazal.
Lord Salisbury retorted that the
French forces in the regions referred to
were too weak to constitute effective
occupation.
A final dispatch. dated Oct Il, from
Baron De Courcel to M. Delcasse, re-
cords conversation with Lord Sails
bury, in which the French ambassador
claimed access to the Nile through the
Bahf- El-Gazel, and asked an AMIGA
bic delimitation of the respective
spheres of interest of the two powers
in reply to which Lord Salisbury indi-
Gated that it would be necessary for
him to consult his colleagues