The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-02
Right of the COnquerOrs of the Sudan
to Maintain Their Supremacy Rec
Ognized by the French.
BARON DE COURCEL TO RETIRE
RUMOR THAT HE WILL BE RE
CALLED From HIS LONDON POST,
And that France Will be in No Hurry
to Appoint n Successor in order
to show Resentment.

LONDON, Nov. 2-William Hayes Fisher,
| one of the junior lords of the treasury,
member of Parliament for Fulham, and
ministerial whip, speaking in London last
evening, said he had seen dispatches which
enabled him to assert that the French gov
ernment had decided to recall the Marchand
mission from Fashoda.
In the course of an interview after the
delivery of his speech Mr. Fisher on being
reminded that he had said he had seen the
dispatches justifying his assertion of the in
tention Of France to withdraw Marchand,
replied that he did not say that he had read
them, remarking that he had been misre-
ported. There is little doubt, however that
either purposely or carelessly, Mr.. Fisher
allowed the news Of the actual fact to leak
| out.
| The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail
says: France will retire from Fashoda
unconditionally and without asking COM
pensation. Baron De Courcel, whose term,
as French ambassador in London expired
long ago, but who has held on to conduct
negotiations affecting Egypt, will now be
recalled, and no haste will be shown TO ap-
point his successor, with view Of marking
French resentment at British action, for
England has almost taken the place Of
Germany as the subject of French hatred"
The Paris correspondent of the Times
says: Baron De Courcel gathered from
conversation held after the last British
Cabinet council that Lord SaIi5purys at
titude had undergone a change, the British
premier insisting that it was impossible to
disregard public opinion in EEg4and and
that nothing could be Gone until Fashoda
was evacuated. So far as French public
opinion is concerned, there is not the slight
est idea OF going to war for Fashoda and
any government doing so would be re-
garded as a government Of imbeces."
The Daily Graphic says this morning:
1--WE learn from an official source in Paris
that Captain Baratier bears instructions to
Major Marchand to return to Fashoda and
there to withdraw his expedition In The di-
rection of the Upper Ubanghi river, north
of the Congo, evacuating Fdsnoda and the
five posts established by him east OF the
frontier indicated in the Anglo-German
! agreement. The Egyptian government will
be invited to send troops to accompany
Major Marchand as he retires from the
Bahr-el-Ghazal territory and 10 reoccupy
the posts as they are evacuated ty the
French officers, thus solving the difficulty
concerning Major Marchand's rcVictual-
ment. When Major Marchand's retirement
proposals submitted by Baron De Cuurcel
to Great Britain will be opened. France is
disposed to recognize frankly that the re-
conquest of Omdurman completely changes
the situation as it existed when Ma jor Mar
chand was instructed to proceed 10 the Nile.
The French government will even state,
that, had Major Marchand been aware of
the Khedival advance, ne would not have
pushed his mission so far east. These in
tentions have not yet been officially i'm
parted to Great Britain, but they probably
will be before Major Marchands evacua-
ton commences"
Without going so far as the Daily Graph
ic, all the dispatches from Paris to the
morning papers indicate that the solution
predicted by the Graphic will be the one
finally reached, and that even should
France sulk automatically, no further seri-
Gus consequences are anticipated. 1t is not
believed, however, France will pursue the
useless course of leaving her embassy in
London vacant. The acquiescence of the
French people in the revision of the Drey-
fus case justifies the French Cabinet in a
conciliatory policy. Only as a means of
Withdrawing attention from internal
troubles could the French government en-
tertain the idea Of risking war for Fashoda,
and since there is no sign of disorders in
Paris the whole situation has changed.
The Berlin correspondent of the Standard
says: Russia has declined to support
France in the Fashoda affair, fearing that
reopening of the Egyptian question would
interfere with her tremendous task in
China"