The San Francisco call., 1898-10-11
SALISBURYS POLICY UPHELD
PARIS GOVERNMENT WILL NOT
 PRESS ITS CLAIM.
Will Find Way Out in Causing Major Marchand to Report That His Position Is
 Untenable.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

LONDON, Oct. l0.-The comments ip the newspapers show that the Marquis of Salisbury's determined stand on the question of the occupation of Fashoda has. come as most agreeable relief, and as disposing of all theories of com promise. No whisper of dissent is heard anywhere. Both friends and opponents of the Premier are rejoicing in the fact that in publishing the blue book on the Fashoda question he has burned his bridges behind him.
 While it is recognized that the situa- tion, by this publication, has become more difficult for France. there is almost entire absence of disposition anywhere to believe that France proposes to press her claims to the point of danger, and this confidence was demonstrated by the capital tone of the Stock Exchange after momentary scare, and such com ment as comes from Paris also tends to abate alarm.
 The Matin which is directly inspired by the French officials, voices to-day the more pacific mood which is ap- parently obtaining in Paris, saying; We shall probably not risk a war with Great Britain for nominal sovereignty over territory at an immense distance from our possessions on the Atlantic They are as inaccessible from our coast as the mountains in the moon. We can retain our honor without retaining Fla shoda. Prudence should prevent us from overlooking ourselves with too much territory. We must be colonial, but in moderation"
 The newspapers of Paris this evening take a calm view of the situationSand plead for moo eration. They express a sincere desire for friendly settlement of the question when Major Marchand's S report arrives.
 But the prevailing view of political men is that the French Cabinet may find a way out of the difficulty in the report expected from Major Marchand, who, it is expected, in response to hint from the French Foreign Office, will declare that his position at Fa- shoda is untenable. The publication of such a report. it is held, will fully justify the French Government in re- calling him.
 A prominent member of the French Embassy in London expressed these views on the situation this evening:
 The advent of the French and Brit ish on the upper Nile ought not to be regarded as the meeting of opposing policies, which necessarily exclude one another, but as the clash of commercial interests which should be carefully de- fined and embodied in permanent agreement. The war; which has not been provoked by the question of Egypt, will certainly not break out over the upper Nile question. The issue at Fashoda will be settled in a friendly manner, to the general satisfaction, but an agreement will be much more easily reached when the newspapers of the two countries cease exciting public opinion"
 The morning papers all renew their comments on the Fashoda situation, but on neither side of the channel is any idea given that the affair is likely to lead to war
 The worst that can happen is the res ignation of NJ del Casse, the French Foreign Minister, or perhaps the whole Ministry. but were it not for the deli cate internal situation in France aris- ing out of the Dreyfus affair and the strike the Fashoda affair would involve no danger whatever