The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1898-10-15 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

WEEKLY LONDON LETTER.  The sensation of the week has been the publication of the correspondence between the English and the French Governments as to the future of Fashoda. Lord Salisbury has put his foot down, and refused even to discuss with the French Government our right of sovereignty, acting with the Egyptian Government, over the Upper Nile. Sir Edward Grey, when Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the last Liberal Ministry, declared that it would be regarded as an unfriendly act on the part of any foreign Government to attempt to take possession of any part of the district pending our recovery of authority from the Dervishes. When the Sirdar found Major Marchand and his little troop at Fashoda he called them • band of scientific travellers, and hoisting the Egyptian flag, refused to regard them as colonists. The French are awaiting the report of Major Marchand before giving their reply. It is hoped they will not force a war between two great nations over this matter, for Fashoda is of far less consequence to them than to us, seeing that their occupation would prevent our communication between Cairo and the Cape. In this matter the British Government has no doubt as to Its rights and means to stand by them. The situation is sufficiently grave, but if it ends well it 'sill increase respect for this country among foroign nations. Now that the French are beginning to think M. Dreyfus innocent of the horrible charge of giving away national military secrets to another country, sympathy has begun to flow out for his unhappy wife, who has been living in a suburb of Paris, bravely endeavouring to bear the trouble for the sake of her two young children. Always believing that her husband was innocent, and hoping desperately that the documentary evidence against him would crumble to pieces, she has • not told her little boy and girl the cause of his long absence from home. She has covered his diFgrace by the explanation that he has gone on a long voyage, and the neighbours have considerately kept from them the awful story of his lonely imprisonment on the Ile du Diable. The suicide of Colonel Henry and his written confession that he had forged one of the letters incriminating Dreyfus, followed by the reported confession by Major Esterhazy that he had forged the famous borderers!, have given  great joy to the lady, and the assurance that the whole matter is to be reconsidered has inspired her with confidence as to her husband's ultimate acquittal. Major Esterhazy has since denied the report, but sufficient revelations have been made in the case to turn the public mind in favour of Dreyfus, and the sorrowing woman is already the subject of many congratulations on the change. Until a short time ago she refused to be interviewed or photographed, but she now speaks her mind freely, and has sat before the camera. All along she has kept the sword of her husband, which was broken when be was removed from the army. Contrary to expectation, St. Paul's Cathedral was not decorated for the harvest thanksgiving, which took place on Monday evening. The musical service, however, was of a beautiful character,  '-- *.r.•- t •k4k; N t 41,„ ~, ~„ ... . . ~,, , , ~,, ...... , 0 ~,,4%,‘,., 4\ N • •Z . ...-k.,••\, i , 1 i 's -••••••-•=.44, • Manama DanTos.  ,• vp:-..-„..7:-.-::..,..........z,,,,,,,,_-,,,m,,,A1...# • ~,t •.,...:.,.._,:,,,,,11.,,\,..„-•,-,;.,,,..„..5•- ,• t . . I i,.v .y- ~1-,_ t•i_k..,,,i1qui"...., ~ ' li ‘ • ~,,10' ",, . ,ft......rr0-a , ', tt , , r 'N; •'. -.4,ar-,------ '''' " 11 - '''li. ( -',' ..._ r. ' 'l4; -1--- - •t - ' . g iii ~ • . •EI , ri ' ,1! lil .• I 1 ' ; '• ii.ol ,i!'.;, .11,1 .1, .1 '.' ''f,, 1 ~,ix 1 4 ': ..ji4 . ,5;....----...':g -1-e-'47... .. 1 1 'ii i , 'il.--,:'1.'0414 -;.. .::,...! i I}, ~,... ..., ..,,,, .:•.• ..... , . . :--JA ' I 0, f ''" -7 ' ' •'' ' 1 1• , 1: ~ '' - . 4-•1 • '...• 4 .";1? lz. I 4 434, tia,!;l':, 2,'":":i-Z . 41-7 '