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FRANCE and ENGLAND.
THE fAsHOOA BLUE BOOK ISSUED


t,raon. oct. e-The foreign ONCE
,,s Issued a f'ashoia blue book. giving
,hs correspondence between the French
and Brl.irh governments IL begins
III a dispatch dated December 10. 1891
,,,m sir Edmund Monson. British am'
b,ssador at Paris, to Lord Salisbu>s
rsferring to rumors Of the massacre %
,be Marchand expedition. and express
Inc the ambassadors satisfaction that
no 4. allowed to acqullnt NJ. Hanotaux
French foreign minister Of that day
with Lord sliishury'a vow that. u other
nts.f'Drs are adjusted. Great Brlta n
sam make 10 dlilculiy regarding the
Ffgnch claim on the northern ana east
sern shsfef ~ Lake Tahad.The dispatch
sh,Na. however. that me Ambassador
snadr ii clear hat this concession must
r1i b. understood as admitting the
firht uf any European power except
ufcit britain TO occupy any part OF thc
Niie valley.
atfh La = long dispatch ~ rtapectiul
pfltasi against Lord Salisbury Vows
on Angus, 2nd VI this year, LORI sai'
isbury wrote Lord Cramcr, Bfiiiah IL
plomaiic agent at Cairo. givinE hln ~.
afructllns that, after the capture o..
Khariuum, two notillaa should ascend
TO Faah0da and 80 up the blue Nile as
Tar az ID should prove navlgablc i1r
i,eamorr. Under these inaufucilonn, inc
glrdar VAS personally TO command the
FNishoda n0illla and 10 take lev
troops II he should consider u desirable
the object being 10 assert Great hri-
tnln'a sphere Of lnhucncc In me Mic
valley.
on September IN sir Edward Monsoon
reported 70 Lord Salisbury . conyerra.
lion In which NJ. Del Casae.r rcnch for
rlgn minister, annsurccd shat Mar
ohand had no authority 60 decide on
questions OF right. and had been IN.
Hiructcd 60 abstain from any actor
likely 80 lead 10 local conflict. NJ. De-
case further expressed a conviction
that the matter was susceptible Of ar
fangtTnent by means Of discussion.
10 this Lord Salisbury replied on sep
temhcr 9Th. thar Great Britain regard
cd the operations OF the slrdar tGcn.
Kltchcnefl as placing all the territories
uf KhalIl Abduliah, by rIRh, VI con.
q. 10. lu the hands OF the British and
Egyptian governments. and Insisted
that ghia contention admitted q no dis
Cuaainu.
Then follow v,riohs dispatches re-
cordng the discussion between Sir Ed
mund MunH1n and N. bet case. tho
latter explaining that Marchand was
nov Virtually q lieut. >nant 10 the Lln-
tard expedition. mad that. therefore the
situation a. Fash9da, even n Marchand
was there could not be as dangerous aa
Sir Edmund Monaon had represented.
ON September 18th. Htlil following the
blue book, the Slrdar reported the re-
rlhs Of HE expedition 20 Fashoda, fully
confirming the announcement already
uhIcd 90 the Aaociaged Press. nclud-
inE the fact that Gen. kiiohcners ar
rival there prevented a second Der
VISA attack on MarchAnd. The French
uiliccr Informed the tlirdRr that he had
concluded a treaty. which he had sent
% France Tor ratincEalon. whereby the
thlllock chiefs had placed tho country
under French protection. Marchand re-
piled In the negative 90 Den. kitch.
encfa question whether he was pre-
pared 20 resist the holsilng u the
BgyIglan naE. but he maintained that
mcut 60 occupy FaHhoda. on the de-
parture % the British forces, Gen.
Kitchener notified Mai. Marchnnd N
writing that all transportation Of whr
material on the Nile was Absolutely
prohibited
full0wsi THE chief HiiiBekH came to
our camp and pnriiyeiy denied that
they had concluded any treaty with
Marhnnd. while an the Shlli1cka de-
carud their allegiance 10 The Hrltlah
r1Nernment. Moreover. Marchhnd was
90 such pfccnrious position that MOTH
Ink could have prevented his annlhlla-
Ton by the Dervlshes had We been q
flfinlEm later In crushing the Khnllfa."
other dispatchea indicate that ~. Del
Case declined Great lirit-n'a request
tlr the immediate recall OF Mai. Mar
chand and that Orrat Britain agreed 20
ahpAich message Tor thc French
rlNefnment 90 Mnwhand. o. a matter
oi courtesy. without accepting any re-
POSSIBILITY for the results delay might
entail, and Hiill maintaining that the
mEisf admitted " no compromise.
W ihn nnhl dispatch appearing In the
h.ue hook. Lord salisbury. under date
" october ari, lnHtructs Fir Edmund
Aohs1n 90 Inform NJ. bel Case that
thn htirrt message 20 MAI. Marchand
pa been sent. but that Great britain
AlfNs lhe Marchand mission az having
no political Hgnlilcance whatever.