The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-24
AN OFFSET.
Yellow Book
Issued.
WAS ANTICIPATE D
In Many Respects BY Fash.
oda English Blue Book.

Paris, Oct. pa semi-offfcial note is,
sued this evening says:
There is no foundation for the
alarmst rumors regarding the relations
between France and Great Britain. 1t
is equally incorrect to say that extra
ordinary measures have been taken at
any Of our naval ports"
The Fashoda yellow book is volumi-
nous, but it does not include Maj. Mar
Glands report, which will be published
later. The dispatches were largely an
ticipated by the English Fashoda blue
book. The diplomatic conversations
recorded show curious endeavor on
the French side to represent that Mar
chand's mission was quite as important
as Gen. Kitchener's, on the ground that
the struggle was against the khalifa
and barbarism. On Sept. IS M. Del
casse, the foreign minister, informed
the British ambassador to France Sir
Edmund Monsoon, in explicit language
that France did not regard Lord Sails
buryS claim to the Soudan by virtue of
conquest, as applying to Fashoda, on
the ground that the expedition under
Capt. Lieotard, which dated from a
period long before the declaration in
the house of commons by Sir Edward
Gray, under secretary of state for for
eign affairs in Lord Rosebery's cabinet,
as to the policy of the British govern
ment toward the Soudan at time
when the equatorial provinces were lost
to civilization.
In fact, nj. Delcasse argued that, I'M
less Great Britain possessed the sui
tan's mandate as well as the khedives,
to acquire all former Egyptian pro-
vinces. France considered herself
equally entitled with England to pos
session of any point occupied by French
officers. Judging from the yellow book
dispatches, the foregoing represents
the French standpoint; and that Del
casse contends that as Marchand
| reached Fashoda first. England has no
right to demand an evacuation of
Fashoda prior to negotiations.
On Sept. 80 M. Deleasse declared to
Sir Edmund Monson that such a de-
mand would be equivalent to an ulti-
matum; and, while he could afford to
sacrifice 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 re-
ply of France to such a demand. The
subsequent dispatches appearing in the
yellow book relate to conversations be-
tween Baron De Courcel, French am
bassador in London. and Lord Sails
bury, the latter contending that the
capture of Khartoum entitled Egypt to
possession of all the mahdi's domin-
ions, and the French ambassador ar
guing that Maj Marchand had cap
tured Fashoda before Gen. Kitchener
took Khartoum and that France had
for a long time held several posts in
the Bahr- Ell azal.
Lord Salisbury retorted that the
French forces in the regions referred
to were too weak to constitute effective
occupation.
A final dispatch, dated Oct. u, from
Baron De Courcel to NJ. Delcasse rec
ords a conversation with Lord Sails
bury, in which the French ambassador
claimed access to the Nile through the
Bahr-E FL Gazal, and asked an amicable
delimitation of the respective spheres
of interest of the two powers in reply
to which Lord Salisbury indicated that
1t would be necessary for him to con-
his colleagues.