The Red Cloud chief., 1898-11-04
rs A CRISIS AT HAND9 |
ENGLAND VERY ACTIVE IN
WAR PREPARATIONS.
omssss Ordered to Dsty and shivs Pre-.
pared for Tightins ssrviss--votsnssss
onesrs Said 70 Hsvs Rsesivsa D,rse.
sioss fev Innsdiste MobiiSsssioa

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expected gloomy feeling this morning
upon the stock exchange and the Paris
bourse. Both these markets were In.
huenced, II IL inferred, from the az.
gressive tone Of some Of the French
papers.
Besides this. something extraordi.
nary seems to have happened and IL
looks as II crisis were approaching.
The British emergency squadron IL
gathering at Dovonport with all possi.
BILE speed. Seven battle ships and ono
cruiser have thus far been designated
To Join tho squadron.
Officers and sailors have bccn hur.
riedly recalled from leave of absence,
several battlcships and cruisers at
Portsmouth are taking their full crews
on board and other wsrlike prepare
tions are Masking. Signal men now on
duty with the British channel squad.
ron have been ordered home for SER
vice, IL Is presumed on board the aux.
iliary cruisers.
A sensation has been caused by the
arrest OF . supposed Russian spy at a
fort near Harwich. The man was al
ready under surveillance and went to
o redoubt. where he tried to obtain
some information from q sentry re-
garding the Notifications He was
promptly arrested.
ORDERS FOR VOLUNTEERS.
II was also asserted to-day that the
commanding officers Of the London
volunteer regiments had received or.
ders to prepare for immediate mobili-
zation, and II was asserted that tho
different artillery corps have been in
formed rs to the forts on the southe
and eastern coasts to which they have
been allotted.
The Pail Mall Gazette says: eng.
land has been and even now Is 90 near
war that the government has carried
Its preparations to the farthest limit
OF the preparatory stage. It has been
arranged to call out the reserves and
militia and to mobilize the volunteers
simultaneously and to form largo
camps ut various important railroad
functions where rolling stock and 10.
comotives will be concentrated.
VICTORIA, B. O., Nov. i.-Commo.
tion prevails at Esquimault and in the
clubs Of tho city frequented by naval
men. Admiral Palliser Is said to have
received . long cipher message in
the admiralty and Immediately her
majesty's ship Amphion, the fastest
cruiser on the station, was ordered to
prepare for sea. She will sail at once
for Coquimbo to meet her sister ship,
Phaeton, and from there the two will
proceed to Tahiti, the French settle
ment Of the Society islands
Tho flagship Impsrieuse, which has
Just returned from Comox, IL also coal.
ing, and the Leander has been ordered
to also return from Comox to prepare
for any move that may be decided
upon Tho other ships here arc the
Dirigo. Sparrowhawk and Icarus. The
opinion among naval men Is that Eng
land is dispatching fleets from Halifax
to tho West Indies and from Esqui-
mault to Tahiti to show tho French
how utterly her colonies would be at
the mercy Of the British should she
mako any warlike movements.
CZAR AND KAISER INTERESTED
PARIS, Nov. 1.-The Eclaire says IL
learns on reliable authority that tho
Fashoda question will be settled favor
ably to Great Britain by the recall OF
Major Marchand. France. the paper
adds, yields oil, reserving only the
question of tho right to the Bahr-el-
Ghaxal district, which she does not
consider a. belonging to Egypt.
The Eclaire remarks; IN. Delcasse,
however, has now decided TO raise the
whole Egyptian question, which should
have boon done from the first, and thus
avoid tho humiliation Of yielding &c
tho British ultimatum. When the ques
, tion is thus enlarged, France will not
, be alone In its discussion with the
Marquis OF Salisbury. Egypt inter
ests all the powers. Russia hal
promised NJ. Delcasse its most effect
i've assistance, and, besides, Germany
Z has the biggest interest, in view o
0 her East African possessions and trad,
y in the Far East, that the Suea cana
4 should not become exclusively British
n II Is disposed to support Franco-Rus
. sian arguments for definite settle
j. nent OF the Euyptiau question"