The San Francisco call., 1898-01-09
ENCLAND'S
 ACTIVITY IN
 THE SOUDAN Immense Supplies Are Forwarded to the
 Front. Triumph in Africa May Offset the Blunders
 in India. So Ministers Desire to Meet Par lament With KhartOum
 in Their Hands. ANGLO EGYPTIAN FORGE. It Consists of 18,ooo Egyptians, Thirty Baualions of British Troops and
 Nile Gunboats.
So Ministers Desire to Meet Par liament With KhartOum
 in Their Hands.
ANGLO EGYPTIAN FORGE.
It Consists of 19,OOO Egyptians, Thirty BauaHons of British Troops and
 Nile GunbOats.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

LONDON, Jan. S.-The official state ment that the military tactics in Egypt are purely defensive is not credited. The greatest activity is manifested in all quarters. Immense supplies of am munition and food are being forward ed to the front, and it is whispered in military circles that the ministers de sire to meet Parliament with Khar- toum in their hands, so that a triumph In Africa may offset the blunders in India. Even with the Hveliest efforts, however, the time intervening will hardly suffice for a coup in the Soudan.
 The Anglo Egyptian force consists of 1S,000 Egyptians, thirty battalions of British troops and the Nile gunboats, all commanded by Sir Herbert Kitche- nor. The latter refuses to allow the war correspondents to go beyond the head of the railway.
 A letter has been received from a British officer serving in the Soudan, who says that since July the Dervishes have killed more than 2000 of the Jaalin tribe, and he adds that the women and children who are homeless and starv- ing number 5000 souls
 
 the fact that a resolution has been in- troduced in Congress to pay the inter- est on the United States debt either in gold or silver indicates that there is little chance of any reform of the cur rency by the present Congress, in spite of Secretary Cages confidence; and regrets that under the cir cumstances it is obliged to continue cautoning Britishers against investing In America until the currency question Is settled. The Statist further says: Under ordinary circumstances we should like much of our savings invest ed in the United States, where a ma 1ority of the citizens are of our kin and whom we desire to see prosperous"
 The Statist admits that the present prosperity in the United States would warrant large investments, but for the silver nightmare, which is ever threat enlng, concluding: The present prices are so tempting that it is much to be regretted that there is no definite prospect that Congress will take effect i've steps to allay the fears"
 The Parnellites will introduce their customary amnesty amendment to the Queens speech at the opening of Par 1ament.
 The Gazette of Wednesday notified the public of the naturalization of Pro- Iessor Hubert Herkomer, R. A, and Alma Tadema, R. A. Incidentally 1t says that Herkomer's nationality is un- known.
 The case of Mrs. Florence Maybrtck Will perhaps be reopened shortly in an- other form. Important evidence in fa- Vor of Mrs. Edith May CareW has been discovered and an influentially signed petition to the Queen asking for her retrial in England is preparing.
 The Swedes seem inclined to take ad- vantage of Russian preoccupation in the far east to reopen hostilities with Norway. When the relations between the two countries were strained in 1896 1t became evident that Russia was in ciined to aid Norway, in exchange for the cession of Finmark, including the port of Hammerfest
 The appointment of ex-King Milan as chief of the Servian army has caused a sensation. In we'll informed circles the opinion is ex- pressed that the appointment was ne- cessary, as the Seryian army, which has great admiration for the former King, IS assuming an independent at- Ctude. The Government believes that Milan will be able to calm the djsaf- fection, but the course of affairs in Servia indicates that King Alexander may ere long retire in favor of his father. It is said King Alexander has an unconquerable aversion to wedlock put on the other hand it is stated that eX-hing Milan will soon marry again
 A muSic-hall singer who sold letters addressed to her by the King of Ser via, has been expelled from Budapest at the request of the Servian Minis ter.
 The refusal of the Secretary of State Tor the Colonies, MT. Chamberlain. to submit to arbitration the differences between the Government of the Trans vaal and her Majesty's Government was deplored in some of the morning papers as being untimely on account of the pending Presidential election in the Transvaal This afternoon the na pers print an apparently inspired ex planation, saying that the refusal is month old and that President Kru- ger gives it out now as a canpaign document to assist in his re-eIention describing it as a reassertion of MT Chamberlain's suzerainty views
 RECLAMATION OF ARAID LANDS.