The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24
VOluminous Document Upon FASH
oda Question.
RAISES OTHER QUESTIONS
MARCHAND'S MISSION IMPORT
ANT AS KITCHENER'S.
France Takes the Ground That Strug-
= gle Was Against the Khalifa and
Barbarism-BTitish Claim to Sou
dan Not Regarded as Applying to
Fashoda-Rumors Premature.

Paris. Oct. 23.-A senii-officiaI note is
sued this evening says: There is no
foundation for the alarmist rumors re-
! garding the relations between France and
| Great Britain. 1t is very Incorrect to
( say that extraordinary measures have
! been taking place at any OF our naval
! ports"
The Fashoda yellow book is voluminous
! but IL does not include Major Marchands
report which will be published later. The
dispatches were largely anticipated by
! the English Fashoda blue book
The diplomatic conversations received
show curious endeavor on the French
side to represent that MaIchands mission
was quite as important as General
kitcheners. on the ground that the strug-
gle was against the hhaiifa and barbar-
ism On Sept. Is NJ. Del Case, the foreign
minister. Informed the British ambaS-
sador to France. Sir Edmund Mobon. in
explicit language that France did not re-
gard Lord Salisbury's claim TO the Sou
dan by virtue of conquest as applying to
FaShoda, on the ground that the Mach
and expedition went to the relief Of the
French expedition under Captain Licol-
ard, which dated from a period long be-
fore the declaration in the house of COM
mons b. Sir Edward Gray. under secre-
tary for foreign affairs in Lord. Rose
berys cabinet, as to the policy of the
British government toward the -SoudSn,
and at 9. time when the equatorial prov
inces were lost to civilization. In fact,
NJ. Del Case argued unless Great Britain
possessed the sultan's mandate as well
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.
Judging from the yellow book dispatch
eS, the foregoing represents the French
standpoint and NJ. Del Case contends
that as Marchand reached Fashoda first,
England had no right to demand an evac-
uation of Fashoda prior to negotiations.
On Sept. 80, NJ. Del Case declared to
Sir Edmund Monson that such a demand
would be equivalent to an ultimatum.
and would afford sacrifice of 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 reply of France to such
demand.
The subsequent dispatches appearing in
the yellow book, relate to conversations
between Baron de Courcel. French am
bassador in London. and Lord Salisbury,
the latter contending that the capture of
Khartoum entitled Egypt to possession of
all the mahdfs doninions and the French
ambassador arguing that Major March
and had captured Fashoda before General
Kitchener took Khartoum and that
France had for a long time held several
posts on the Bahr-el-GaZel
Lord Salisbury retorted that the French
forces in the regions referred to were too
A final dispatch dated Oct. Il from
Baron de Courcel to NJ. Del Case records
conversation with Lord Salisbury in
which the French ambassador claimed ac-
cess to the Nile through the Banr-el-
Gael and asked an amicable domination
of the prospective spheres of interest of
the two powers, in reply to which Lord
Salisbury indicated that 1t would be nee
essary for him toHconsult his colleagues.
Baron de Courcel, having represented
that 1t would be impossible for Marchand !
to retire until IL was settled where he
should go and how the evacuation was TO
be effected. Lord Salisbury after reflect /
ing very seriously said he was not suf-
hciently acquainted with the geography |
of Africa to reDlV for the present regard /
ing limitation ane that moreover he
could not enter into projects of that ma
ture without consulting his colleagues.
Baron de Courcel concluded the dispatch /
of Oct II by saying:
II Quilted him on these explanations. /
which were pronounced in a conciliatory |