Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-01-09
FRANCE AND ENGLAND.
Fresh Irritants In Relations Between
the Two Nations.
BRITAIN'S DECIDED STAND
madagascar Bluc Book ana LorN
CrOmer's Speech Cause Ainf"'
Cecil Rhodes MlssiOn-kfp-
ling Coming to America.


London, Jan. all events seem to
work together in European politics to
increase the tension between Great
Britain and France. The past week mas
brought Madagascar and EGYPT tor-
ward as irritants just when the mutual
irritability was subsiding. Even the
most conservative observers begin 10
take a pessimistic view of the relations
between the two powers. This includes
those who up to the present have con-
sidered the belligerency to be mere talk
due to supersensitiveness upon the part
of France and to unnecessary gruftness
upon the pant of Great Britain in insist
ing upon what she considers to be her
rights.
On one side. France seems to foster
the growing belief that Great Britain
is determined under some preteXt or
other to force her into war and is WILL
ing to make a preteXt If no plausible
excuse arises On the other side, large
part of the British public profess that
their patience has been strained beyond
endurance by what they deem to be the
unvarnished dishonesty of French di-
plomacy. The Madagascar blue book
was followed by a leading editorial in
The Times denouncing France in Ian
suace so fiery for that conservative
newspaper that Frenchmen are reading
the two together and are constituting
them as parts of a deliberate policy in
spired by one mind. That mind in the
theory of the man in the street, is Mr..
Joseph Chamberlain, the secretary OF
state for the colonies.
Other papers may storm and scod
and are not noticed, but when The
Times becomes abusive foreigners in
terDrct it as haing the voice of the gov
eminent. In the present instance some
lcneishmen will place the same con-
strl!ption upon its utleranceS, recalling
how The Times led the mo surrender
cry over the Fashoda incident under
evident insn'ration. One fact is certain
-nuhlc opinion in Great Britain will
not sanction the government to swerve
an inch to avoid war with France,
thinh0,: that If Z must come this is the
best time to have it out.
ENGLAND and Egypt.
Many people give importance to the
issue of the Madagascar blue book al
most simultaneously with the quiet but
unmista liable announcement at Khar-
turn. by which the british agent there
Niscount Cr0mer. in his remarks to the
shie'<s ann unced that Great Britain
has set her seal upon Egypt. If there
ever WIS doubt in the minds of her
Eurorean rivals that Great Britain in
tende to f"r'D'os" the mortgage upon
which she has pyOerH cd Gu y,ol,cb Ia hor
and h'""d 10 secure, it must have been
set at rest by the utterances of Lord
Cromer, in which the word "protecto-
rate was written in large letters,
though the governments mouthpiece
caNe'uIly anStFiAed from using that IN
cendiary word. A more definite notice
that Great lfrlta'h tenure or Egypt Is
ner"anent coul1 not be asked. The
f1'sh agent tolo the assembled snleKs
thHt nNhN'ofth '"ey VIII i've under the
J"lht l'rl'iSh ana rsNl"lan iass, KNOW
Ing no severe snty but that of the queen
ana 'h' NN'''N'' Whlch OF course means
that the latter VIII be a harmless fig
urehea DIS lorthal ''
over 'oH sudan Is more dis
!3siafni to France than to any other
nation, ana renewed protests may be
ex"e"t"d,
In the meantime another enterprise
Of the utm"Ft moment in the further
an" OF ff"At 'ritain's domination in
Africa is about to he contaminated. Mr..
Cecil Rh'd"s. tn" former premier of
cane Colony alleged instigator of the
Jameson raid and so called Napoleon
vi 7't' -N'r'c" Is coming 10 england
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strnctinn Mr. rhndos oo,,,ta w. 'on
nuencng moneyed men to h,cL tha,r
natriotis,, Win thoi, c,sh a,.ar ;e , -
is unoh'o to enlist the government nn
his side. r. any man can succeed in THE
project Mr. Rhodes is the man Dr.,
one barrier stands in the wav in 40
for,, of tho tyo,g, oo,,,o,,t;r 80 NV
teeing the neutrality of the nart of ,ho
continent about Lake Tangany;l,o
which even the autocrot of Rbodo.io
will find hard to force Here GERMANY
has the veto on Great Britain,s advonoe
which she cannot be exnected to wo,,a
without a heavy indemnity.
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