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 Fashoda Without War.  ENGLAND WOULD BE DELIGHTED To Afford the French Every Facility to
 Speedily Evactuaie. sHAKE-UP IN FAURE's CABINET While at First Viewed With Suspicion, Now Looked Upon as Shrewd Di-
 plomacy to Avoid Conflict
 With England.
sHAKE-UP IN FAUREs CABINET

London, October 29-The arrival of Ma jor Marchand at Khartoum on his way to Cairo with the part of his report which was not finished when Captain Baratier left Fashoda, is regarded rent in the clouds overhanging Anglo-French relations, for, in spite of the semi-oficial denial is- sued in Paris that orders were sent to the major to go to Cairo. it is fully believed here that the French officer would not be on his way to Cairo unless he had received a hint to that effect from the French gov ernment, who consider that his leaving Fashoda will take the sting out of the situation and at the same time prepare France for the eventual withdrawal of the whole expedition which now consists of seven officers and 12O men.
 The British view of this latest view is that the Marquis of Salisbury and his min- isters are delighted to afford Major Marchand the facilities for reaching Cairo. But they would hardly care to send him back except in the capacity of a guest or scientific explorer. That is to say France will first have to renounce her present claims based on his mission.
 In the meanwhile, in the voluntary re- turn of Major Marchand, the French min- ister M. Delcasse. and the government of France have got over great difficulty from diplomatic amour propre point of view. M. Delcasse had declared that the French government could not do the inn possible, that is to, say. recall Mejor Marchand.
 Saved It's Face
 Therefore the latter's return has enabled the French government to "save its face, as the saying goes. It is recognized, how ever, that even if the tri-color of France is hauled down at Fashoda the main sub feet of dispute remaina and may cause anxious moments in both countries before the -El-Ghazel question is settled, although there has been confident feeling for the last few days that war will be ayerted The French ministerial crisis at first increased the feeling of anxiety which prevailed as to the prospects of a peace ful solution, but in the list of probable new ministers the British newspapers see body of experienced and capable men who are able to lead French opinion. The re- tention of M. Delcasse at the head of the ministry of foreign affairs, however, Is not regarded favorably, as he is the father, so-called, of the Marchand adventure.
 An instructive account of the origin of the whole enterprise appears in an important Paris paper Le Journal, which says the Marquis de Mores, the Anglophobe French explorer, who was assassnated In the Hin- terland of Algeria, really conceived grand lose plans, which he submitted to M. Del casse. who fell in with his views and dis patched Major Marchand to the Upper Nile, while de Mores started for the Sarana with the avowed intention to conquer, with the cooperation of Marchand. the province of -El-Ghaza.
 Plan of Campaign
 The plan of tn ecampaign included the organization of all the armed peoples op- posed to Great Britain and included the cooperation of the Khaifa, whose forces, led by Frenchmen, would attack the Brit ish, and the khalifa. backed by the French explorers, would thus interpose buffer between Egypt and Central Africa, thereby thwarting British aims. De Mores and his party were massacred at the outset of their Journey, but Marchand succeeded in carry ing out his part of the plan, and there Is reason to believe that the French govern ment now wishes he had not done so.
 As the Euclair says today: Major Mar chand returning? Why, then. did we go to Fashoda? In order to play the game, we played against the English, and we ought to have had a navy capable of making brave show against the English, instead of which the fossils of our naval depart ment have left us disarmed and incapable of fighting with honor."
 The French newspapers seem to have lit- tie faith in Russia helping her ally in the present crisis. while Russian dispatches to the British papers affirm positively that the czar is opposed to war, and has coun- selled the French government to abandon its untenable attitude. It Is even said the czar has characterized the French attitude as reckless.
 Preparations Continue
 In the meantime. military and naval prep arations continue on both sides of the chan nel There was talk at Davenport of a flying squadron being commissioned. But q reassuring feature is the departure of Sir William Henry White the director of naval construction of the British navy, on two months visit to Egypt No extreme measures. are therefore expected by the admiralty officials at the present moment. at all events.
 The rumor from Paris of the intention of the British government to declare Egypt under the protectorate of Great Britain has already attracted attention as the gen. eral feeling that the moment is clearly in- opportune for such step. It would be only playing into the hands of France. There is persistent talk, However, of