The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-05

conquered.
The banquet given to General Kitchener
at the Mansion House tonight was an ex-
ceptionally brilliant affair. A trophy OF Brit
ish and Egyptian flags entwined had been
arranged above the lord mayors seat. The
guests included the Duke of Cambridge. the
Marquis of Salisbury and the other Cabi-
net ministers; Lord Roberts of Kandahart
Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, Sir Will
liam Vernon Harcourt, Lord Rosebery, Lord
Wolsely, commander-in-chief of the British
forces; Lord Russell of Killowen, the lord
chief justice of England; Lord Curzon,
of Kedleston, the newly appointed viceroy
of India; Sir Joseph Lister, president of the
Royal Society: the Duke of Marlborough,
Mr. Henry White, the United States charge
daffaires; Baron Rothschild. Judge Lam
bert Tree, formerly United States minister
to Russia and others Of the highest rank
in the British empire. In all there were
about $50 guests present.
The lord mayor received his guests in the
grand salon. General Kitchener was attired
in the uniform of a major general of the
British army, with the ribbon OF the
Osmanieh Order. He was greeted with tre-
mendous cheering from the assembled
guests The banquet, appropriately, was
served in the Egyptian hall of the Mansion
House. General Kitchener sat on the right
hand of the lord mayor and the Duke OF
Cambridge was seated on the lord mayors
left After the dinner proper the lady
navoress and a number of other ladies were
accommodated with seats in the gallery in
order to enable them to hear the speeches
After the loving cup had been circulated the
lord mayor toasted the Queen, the Prince
and Princess of Wales and the royal family
to which the Duke of Cambridge responded.
Lord Rosebery toasted the army and navy,
paying a glowing tribute to Lord kitcnener
and his gallant comrades ami to Lord Cro-
mer and the Egyptian and Sudanese forces,
whose brilliant campaign, just closed, is
the most consummate in the annals OF Brit
ish military history for eighty years and
far more beneficent and extended in its re-
suits than, perhaps, any recorded In MS
tory The campaign, said Lord Rosebery,
had wiped out the "bloodiest and most bar
barous tyranny in the history of mankind"
He concluded by expressing the opinion that
Great Britain had "a right to expect from
the nations whose territory borders on the
Dervish territory, not i'll feeling and jeal-
ousy, but the fullest measure of gratitude"
Admiral Sir Newell Salmon, first and prin-
cipal naval aid-de-camp to the Queen, re-
sponded for the navy, and the secretary of
state for war, Lord Lansdowne, for the
army.
There was q feeling of expectancy
throughout the speeches and everything that
could be construed as an allusion TO war
was jumped at by the assembly with pro-
longed cheers. When Sir Newell Salmon
alluded to "the preparedness of the navy"
and Lord Lansdowne to 1.-The readiness of
the army there were prolonged outbursts
of applause.
The assembly greeted the rising of the
Marquis of Salisbury to toast the sirdar
with nervous silence, as it had been whis-
pered that he had an important and grave
statement to make. His statement was i'm
portant, but it was pacific, as he announced
a settlement of the chief difficulty with
France as stated elsewhere.
General Kitchener's reply, which was
modest and not important, gave unstinted
praise to the British, Egyptian and Sudan
ese troops. The sirdar said he would, in
deed, have been an incapable leader If he
had failed of victory with such soldiers. He
gave some details as to the experience of
the expedition, dwelling with pride upon its
cheapness, and, in summing up 1.-The assets
that remain" referred to six hundred miles
of railway, gunboats, flotilla of sailing
craft, and carter pauSe) the Sudan.
daughter and applause.)
A striking feature of the scene was the
presence of a number of young officers of
the Guards. Life Guards and Twenty-first
Lancers, who had served with the sirdar.
Several of them were wounded and walked
with crutches or with their arms in sings.
French Rebuffed by the khaIifa.
NEW YORK, Nov. A dispatch to the
Times from London says: "A story of the
greatest gravity, circulating among persons
in touch with official quarters, alleges that
when Marchand reached Fashoda he sent
two messengers with three French flags to
the Khalifa and a letter saying if the
Khalifa hoisted these flags at Omdurman
he would be under the protection of the
great French nation" and the British would
not fire upon him.
THE Khalifa replied that two British
dogs had attacked Sudan; one dog named
dog named Kitchener. he was about to
kill. He would then wipe out the French.
Both of these letters and the three flags
are said to have been captured by the
srdar's officers. If this be confirmed it is
obvious that public opinion here will be in
famed at the discovery of the fact that a
French agent offered protection to the
Khalifa while the French government con-
graduated the British government on VIC
tory for the sake of civilization
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