The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 15, 1896, Page 1

" VOLUME LXXIX.—NO. 106, PRICE FIVE CENTS. CLOUDS OF WAR OVER THE WORLD, Sinister Events Are Hurled Forward to Shake Many Kingdoms. SIGNS OF THE STORM. Italy’s Disaster Half Forgotten and Fresh Surprises Are in Store. INTRIGUES OF THE NATIONS. Wrenched by Recent Shocks Triple Alliance Is Too Badly Hurt to Survive. the [€opyright, 1896, by the New York Times.] LONDON, Exg., March 14.—Yesterday’s meeting between the Queen of England, who has been for tifty-nine years on her throne, and the Emperor of Austria, who has been for forty-eight years on his, is said to have been their first. It sounds strange enough that the two venerable monarchs, whose capitals are only a few hundred miles apart, and whose countries for more than a generation have been on peculiarly friendly terms, should never havelaid eyes on each other until now. Ordinars h a curious fact, if it be a fact, would have appealed to journalistic imaginations all over Europe, but it receives only the barest incidental mention, for the reason that itis a thousand times more important to wonder what they said when finally they did find themselves face to face. There is undoubtedly much that is impressive in the spectacle of these two saddened old sovereigns at last coming together and looking out, side by side, upon the wild skies which overhang Christendom, id with angry portents of storm; for once, people are too busy th ut the storm itself to dwell on its picturesque personal ineidents, uggestive. Where will this storm d who will be struck first, are questions which lie at the back of every muc! ho eV, ak, 3 mind. From its turbulent birthday, this year of 1896 has worn a sinister aspect in men’s ghts, until now faith in its evil character has become almost & general W is this week’s quota to the rowded sensations of the season. Already Italy’s disaster is half forgotten and next week who knows what fresh surprise isin store for the world? Itis as if events bad wrested themselves free from human con- trol and were hurling forward as caprice dictated, shaking kingdoms as they come. Just a little more clearly than before it can be seen that the Triple Alliance has been badly wrenched by the recent shocks, and is perhaps too much hurt to survive. There are rumors to-day that William, Francis Joseph and Humbert are to have a hurried personal conference next week somewhere 1n Northern Italy, but the valuz of the story it is not possible to guess. It is permissible to imagine, how- ever, that William is frightened at the rev- efation of the results of his past year’s statesmanship, adopting in an evil moment that vicious Bismarckian policy which in bis saner years he had discarded. The German Emperor has been openly chasing the will-o”-the-wisp of Russian friendship and lending himself complaisantly to one Muscovite plan after another till now, on the very brink of the gulf, he seems to halt and recognize where he is. His two part- ners in the Triple Alliance are visibly dis- cussing the possibility of leaving him in the lurch altogéther. England has been violently alienated from him and his peo- ple, and now it is borne in upon him that Russia and France have been merely play- ing with him, pocketing his gifts and ac- cepting his services, but holding them- selves ready, all the same, to fall upon and rend him the n.oment his foot slipped on his treacherous path. I believe this is something !ike the situation as he sees it to-day. 1t is plain that the Austrian Premier, in his visit to Berlin, has been laying great stress on the necessity of Germany getting back the English friendship. All the of- ficial press of Vienna and Buda-Pesth teems with this advice, and through it one continually catches the suggestion that if Germany can’t do this then the Triple Al- liance is in a bad way jndeed. Austria in this matter speaks as well for Roumania, which finds itself suddenly alone among the Balkan States in attitude of defiance to Russia, and is terrified at its isolation. Italy seems to have accepted and digested its lesson. Rudini will patch up a com promise with Menelik, saving as much of King Humbert's dignity as possible; will release most of Crispi’s political prisoners, and will make overtures to France for more amicable trade and political rela- tions. At Rome not less than at Vienna and Bucharest almost everything depends on what England may resolve to do. But who can tell what England will do? T.is sudden development of an aggres- Soudan policy confuses and disturbs public opinion here. It is npyaront that France will be furious about iy, ana yet until now every one had believed that Lord Salisbnry was sincere in trying to establish a prrmanent clos2 under_stuna. ing with France. No possible triumph over Dervishes or consequent indirect as- sistance to the Italians in Africa would weigh for a moment against the disaster of provoking a fresh An-;lu-l"rencr{ quarrel. Yet this is apparently what is being done, «nd the English people do not likeit at Unless Curzon’s speech next Monday puts a better face on the thing than it wears now, there will begin to be the general outery against Lord Salisbury’s conduct of the foreign affaizs. He has al- ready scored more viplomatic failures and gotinto more dip‘omatic hot water than any Knglishman likes o think about. It will take very little more to impel the whole coantry to mutiny against its Foreign Office. The discovery of the bu!l- headed incompetency with which this Foreign Office got together the Venezuelan { blue book hed a great moral effect there in this same line of educating the public to distrust the whole Downing-street outfit. No one supposes that there was any dis- honest intention underlying these gross blunders, but in troublous times the na- tion has far more to fear from its fools than from_its knaves. Although the oldest member of Parlia- ment hardly recalls a time when the Gov- ernment benches were able to turn on at will such majorities of from 150 to 200 in every division on every subject as those which are now wielded by Balfour, rumors hat Ministerial disasters are impending obstinately continue to haunt the lobbies and smoking-rooms in 8:. Stephen’s. Itis true that no tangible signs appear of fric- tion between the Cecil Rhodes and Cham- berlain groups in the Cabinet, but sparks are struck with increasing frequency among their respective retainers in the rank and file of tnhe party. Last Tuesday, for instance, Galloway, who is a To member for one of the Manchester divi- sions, had put down a notice of the ques- tion that he is to ask about the fair wages resolution of 1891. Chamberlain sent his private secretary to him with the polite request that he withdraw the question, and Galloway returned the simple reply, “I will see Mr. Chamberlain first.” This incident borrows significance from the fact that Galloway's constituency adjoins Bal- four's, and that they are close political friends. Predictions that the open split between Chamberlain and his Tory colleagues will come over the Transvaal business continue to be heard, but they grow less confident now that the matter has got into British law courts, where the science of delay has been carried to the heartbreaking point of perfection. So far as it is understood, the Jameson hearing next Tuesday will occupy only a few hours and then be adjourned another week, and after that everything will be suspended for a month or so, os- tensibly to await the arrival of evidence from the- Transvaal, but private letters from the Cape say that the Colonial Office men sent out there to gather this testi- mony are doing nothing but to amuse themselves, and the suspicion is strong there that the whole thing is to be strung out indefinitely till public attention is di- verted to other topics of interest, when it will be quietly allowed todrop. I would not like to say that you could not find that same suspicion here in England if you looked hard for it. A week of further meditation on that annual grant of £1800 to the Duke of Cam- bridge smuggled into the army estimates aronsed such wide-spread hostility mong the Tories themselves now that it is hardly doubted that the Duke will be pressed by the Ministry to decline the thing in advance. If he refuses to do this then the Ministry will have to face the alternative of abandoning the grant them- selves or probably of being beaten on it. This royal begging for money used to be common enough, ard there were periodical soandaly about it, till Mr. Gladstone and other old servants and friends of the crown arranged anew systet'ni m\s&ofl: for the Porim cemy wICH 1T WHS SUPPOSER Preciua 2a further incidents of that unpleasant sort. The Duke of Coburg's grant skated over very thin ice, it is true, but it was possible to make a certain defense of it, and the House of Commons decided that it was un- wise to make a fuss over if, but this Cam- bridge grant has no defense whatever. He is an extremely rich man as he is, and, moreover, this present Ministry made a specific promise only last August that nothing of the kind should be attempted. It is not only the Liberals now, but appar- ently a half of the Tory party and all the Liberal-Unionists, who bave determined that the promise shall be kept, and appar- ently the old Georgian Duke will be cudg- eled into evacuating one more last ditch. Another rather unexpected demonstra- tion of Liberal views among this huge Tory majority was found in the vote by which it become: immediately possible to open all the staté museums and picture galleries to the public on Sunday. This long sought-for boon had been stolidly re- fused by the previous House of Commons, and the casual precipitancy with which it has now been all at once conceded has al- most taken the public breath away. The Sabbatarians, too, are so completely taken aback that they have not yet collected themselves for a chorusof protests. By the time that they begin to make themselves heard the British Museum, National Gallery and the great collections of South Kensington will all be open for seven days in the week, and after this is an accomplished fact it is vain to imagine that it can ever be upset. The triumphant moral vindication given to Harry Marks by two of her Majesty's Judges, who have been inquiring into the Whitechapel election for over a month, is enough to make a dog sick. It needed only this crowning result to convince the last remaining doubter that the corrupt practices act, as it has been whittled down by successive juaicial decisions, is ridicu- lous rubbish which must promptly be shot into the dustbin. The story that the Kaiser's malformed left arm has been diagnosed by the Roent- gen process, and that surgeons by this help will now be able to restore iis usefu!- ness, is very pretty, but will hardly hold water. The limb in question has no bones worth talking of. and it is incredible that auy structural operation can bring vigor into 2 member which has been withered and lifeless for thirty years, It is not surprising that it has already occurred to the Parisian press wits to cail the young cousin of the Orleanist pre- tender who has just been decorated with the Legion of Honor Henri Egalite. For over a century the royal house of France has always contained a cadet branch which played the part of demagogic treason against its dynastic head. Up to 1883 five generations of Orieans princes bad con- spired against their family chief, with regicide and usurpation as incidents in a | sustained career of intriguing and faith- | lessness. Now that the Orleanist family by process of exhaustion represents all that is left of the French Bourbons, it de- velops out of its own vitals its malignant parasite anda foe. Prince Henri is two vears older than his cousin, the Duc d’Orleans, and has been pursuing this game of personal advertisement ever since the coliapse of the Boulanger movement. Tt is his sister who was formerly affianced to the Duc d’Orieans who is now to marry the Duc de Macmahon, and it is apparent that the whole Chartres group of the fam- ily are to utilize their exemption from ex- ile by outwardly acknowledging the re- public and seeking preferment under it. Prince Henri himself makes a specialty of f March Weather in New York and in San Francisco. | bittex anti:Epglish tirades, but that.is no hznger such a good business in France a= it was. ? A quaint newspaper correspondence has arisen over the refusal of Lansdowne, the Secretary of State for War, to countenance the project of raising a cavalry regiment composed entirely. of gentlemen. The scheme was originated by Evelyn Stewart, who was impressed by the fact that alarge proportion of the English gentry did not know enough te pass examination and get commissions in the army and yet had the muscle and predatory instincts which make good soldiers. - He got a committee together, sent ount a circular and got 537 applicants, all vouched for as gentlemen, but the War Office callously refusea to hear of it. He appeals to the papers now for an expression of public opinion, and to-day one of the Rugby masters says that everybody who has .to do with the public school must have seen numbers of young | men who are in tastes and physique just what the army wants and who yet have not brains enough to enter Sandhurst. He is very hot for the scheme, and so are oth- ers who write. It is said that all the ap- plicants accepted the stipulation that they woald ask for no privileges or pay more than ordinary troopers,. and would serve contentedly as privates on the only condition that they would be kept together and kept select. Altogether it is an enter- esting commentary on the English social existence. My only surprise .is that the projectors while they were about it lim- ited their scheme to a mere paltry regi- ment and did not suggest at once a whole army corps. It surcly could not have been for lack of material. The book of personal reminiscences with which Mrs. Mary Anderson Navarro has occupied her*superabundant leisure since her retirement from the stage is announced for next Thursday. I gota Lint that the British part of it rather swamps in size and interest the earlier American portion. Zola’s novel, “Rome,” has only fairly begun its serial coursein La Tribunea, but already that Italian journal is filled with protests of readers, who ridicule the author’s inaccuracies and are especially furious about his description of the Roman slums. They say that even his fortnight’s glimpse of the Eternal City ought to have given him a truer notion of things than he displays, and La Tribunea adnits that this is s0. Rosa Bonheur is 74 years old Monday, and the event will be marked by an exhi- bition of big pictures. She has just fin- ished portraying the historical combat be- tween two stallions which their owner, Lord Godolphin, invited his fashionable friends to witness here in 1734, The come position is full of immense energy, the combatants roaring in the shock of l{nme. HAaroLD FREDERIC. Export Sugar Bounties. BERLIN, GerMANY, March 14.—The Reicustag committee baving.in charge the Government sugar bill last evening by a vote of 12 to 9 fixed the export bounties upon raw sugar at 9 marks, upon candy su- gars at 4 marks and upon all other grades at 3}3 marks. R N Wreck Off the Isle of Guernsey. LONDON, Exe., March 14.—A dispatch from Guernsey says a quantity of wreck- age has been picked up on the west coast of the island, inclndinga lifeboat marked “Marsalia, Hamburg.” The carcasses of a number of bulls were seen also. b A Bodies to Be Exhumed. LONDON, Exeraxp, March 14.—Advices {rom tle Transvaal announce the. inten- tion to exhume the bodies of the followers of Dr. Jameson who were killed in the bat- tle of Krugersdorp in_the recent raid into them in a cemetery. 15 NOT CHECKED. Breaks Through the Spanish Line ‘and ' Enters Ha- vana Province. CUTS UP A BATTALION. General Weyler Enraged by the Success of the Daring In- surgent Leader. TROOPS RUSHED IN PURSUIT. Additional Stories of Fiendish Cruelty on the Part of Military Gov- ernors of Cuba. (From a Staft Correspondent of the United Press.) HAVANA, Cusa, March 14, (via Key West, Fla., March 14.)—Wednesday Gomez and Maceo, who were in the province of Matanzas, separated, Gomez remaining in the yieinity of ‘Jovellanos, while Maceo moved - west. The Government troups directed attention to Maceo, who showed a tendency to retréat-toward Havana. The columns commanded by Generals Bernal and . Pratt, Colonels Vicuna and Inclan, Tort and Molina and the Almanza pattalion formed a corbination to encircle Maceo and prevent his entrance to Havana province.: v The official announcement was made at the palace Thursday of the combination of the seven columns. The result was anx- iously waited. Yesterday the Government announced that Maceo declined an engage- ment and entered Havana province. From other sources it is iearned Maceo discov- ered the combination and with Lacret and Bandera, the forces numbering over 10,000, fell upon the Almanza batialion, which happened to be a raw one recently arrived from Spain, broke it to pieces, rode over the remains and crossed the Havana line, leaving the Government. combination in the rear. Maceo passed south of Guinez and struck the railroad north of Batabano, removed the track and telezraph wires and caused consternation in the block houses along the strong line. In the vicinity of Pozo Redondo he burned two bridges, and was last reported going in the direction of the Pinar del Rio line. General Weyler is very angry over the failure of the columns to prevent Maceo’s return, and especially since he had just- proclaimed the province free of insurgents. The Government troops are now being rushed west in pursuit of Maceo, and the strong liné is again being strengthened. There is no improvement in. the sitoa- tion in the other.provinces. The Spanish hold three towns in the western provinces, the South African Republic,and ninurl Pinar ael Rio, Candelaria and Artamasia. In Matagzas many.thousand: acres of MACESS WARCH |2 been burne 1 {ap Dast e & estroy .destroyed and towns at- tacked. There haye been encounters daily. The rebels are more numerous than ever. The same is true of Santa Clara and Santiago provinces. General Weyler’s recent decrees are be- ing rigidly enforced, causing panic in many sections. Walter Grant Dygart, the American arrested ana supposed.to be the rebel leader, El Inglesito, is still in jail at Guines. It is a case of mistaken identity. Quintana, the American citizen taken at Guatao, has not: yet been released. The Government investization of the matter has been dropped. - The truth of ‘the stqry published in the States has not been de- nied. Marquis de Cervera, who sent out the column which. committed the atroci- ties, was confirmed Alcalde of Mariano last Thursday. So many conflicting statements as to this year’s sugar crop in Cuba have been pub- lished either at the instance of the Span- ish Government or other interested par- ties, it is well that the facts should be known. Itis now the middle of the grind- ing season and in the great sugar-produc- ing provinces of Matanzas and Havana not one estate is grinding. In Santa Clara province, which is next to Havana in quantity of output, one estate, Constancia, alone is grinding. In Pinar del Rio none are grinding. . In the:eastern district the estates—Union, San Luis, San Sabastian and Santa Ana, near Santiago de Cubap and two or three others near Manzanillo and Guantanamo are grinding under great cifficulties. In Havana province the Toledo estate has ficished, grinding. No -others dare begin. The same is true in Matanzas. The wet season will soon: be on. Estates have been ordered by General Weyler to grind. It is impossible for them to comply. Here is what has been accomplisbed up to March 1: Total number of tons .exported, 76,076; amount consumed in two months, 8400; amount ‘on hand, all' ports,'55,489; total, 139,965; less old stock, 86,667; total new crop to March 1, 38,138; same time last year, 319,326, : " The foregoing statisties are furnished by Joaquin < Guma, the sugar expert of Havana: * Estimating the amount of sagar at’' the mills held back by interference by ‘transportation at ' 10,000 tons—a liberal figure—the tofal amount of new crop to March 1 'becomes 63,298 tons. If the sec- ond half of the grinding season does as well as the ‘first the total vield for Cuba for 1896 will be 126,596 tons. Last year the crop was estimated at 1,000,000 tons. The probable shortage this year will therefore be 873,000 tons, or over 87 per cent of a normal crop. ‘What is true of the sugar crop is practi- cally true of the tobacco, as will be seen later. J. FrANK CLARK. —_— ONE ATTACK REPULSED. During Their Retreat the Rebels Burned i Some . Houses. principles of justice or morality Colon_el Jull, who has been recently appaimed_mw itary Governor of Matanzas province, should be in the galleys among criminals. It is but a short time since he was relieved by General Martinez Campos of the mili- tary command at Cienfuegos, as he had not once engaged any of the insurgent forces, but vented all his ferocious instincts against innocent and inoffensive peasants. “In Yaguaramas, a small town near Cien- fugos, he arrested as suspected spies An- tonio Morjon, an honest and hard-working man, and Ygnacio Chapi, who is well ad- vanced in years and almost blind. Not being able to prove the charge against them, as they were innocent, he ordered Major Moreno of the Barcelona battalion, doing garrison duty at Yaguaramas, to kill them with machetes and have them buried immediately. Major Moreno an- swered that he was a gentleman who had come to fight for the integrity of his coun- try and not to commit murder. This dis- pleased the colonel, but unfortunately a volunteer sergeant with six soldiers were willing to execute the order of the colonel, and Morjon and Chapi were murdered without pity. “The order of Jull was executed in the most cruel manner. It horrifies to even think of it. Mr. Chapi, who knew the ways of Colonel Jull, on being awakened at 3 o’clock in the morning and notified by the volunteer chief of the guard that he and Morjon had to go out, suspected what was to come and told his companion to cry out for help as soon as they would be taken out of the fort. They did so, but those who, were to execute the order of Jull were féither moved nor weakened in their purpose. On the contrary, at the first screams of Chapi and Morjon they threw a lasso over their heads and pulled them till in a few moments they fell to the ground choked to death. They were dragged on the earth without pity to the place where they were buried. All tnis bloody scene was witnessed by Jull from a short distance. “Providence has not willed that such iniquity should remain hidden forever. In the hurry the grave where these two in- nocent men were buried was not dug deep enough, and part of the rope with which they were choked remained outside. A neighbor looking for a lost cow saw the rope, took hold of it, and, on pulling, dis- interred the head of one of the victims. He was terror stricken, and immediately gave notice to the Guardia Civil and the Judge. These authorities soon found out that the men had been killed by order of Colonel Jull, and therefore proceedings were suspended. “The neighbors and all the military authorities know everything that has been related here, but such is the state of af- fairs on thie island that General Weyler has had no objection to appointing this monster military Governor of Matanzas. “Such deeds as enumerated are common. The people of the town of Matanzas, with Jull as Governor and Arolas at the head of a column, will suffer the consequences of their pernicious and bloody instincts. “Thgt the readers may know in part who General Arolas is, I will relate what bas happened in the Mezcedes. evifite, near’ Colon... It havine to knowledge that 8 small body -of 'rebels was en- camped on the 'sugar estate Mercedes of Mr. Oarrillo, General Arolas went to en- gage them, but the Tebels, who were few in number, retreated. Much vexed at not being able té discharge one shot at them, he made priseners of three workmen who were out in the field herding ‘the animals of the estate, and without any formality of trial shot them. “When the bodies were taken to the Central they were recognized, and, to cover his responsibility. somewhat, Arolas said that when he challenged them they ran off, and at the first discharge of mus- ketry they fell dead. “It seems impossible that, being so near the United States, so near the country so free, cultured and generous, innocent peo- ple can be butchered with impunity. Not even-in Armenia happens what is being witnessed in Cuba. The history of the Spanish dominion in this unfortunate island is a history of crimes.” Sl sm e 2 READY TO STEAL AWAY. Preparations in Progress for the Sailing - of the Bermuda. NEW YORK, N. Y., Marca 14.—At mid- night it was whispered about ttmt the steamer Bermuda, which failed in getting away with a Cuban filibustering expeditién a short time ago, was to make another at- tempt to steal away from her anchorage auring the night or early Sunday morning. Groups of dark-complexioned men were seen wending their way toward a large boat located at Pier A, North River, and a boatman was said to be waiting to take them out to the Bermuda, which liesabout two miles south of Liberty Island. The lighter Stranahan, which had on board the arms and ammunition which it unsuccessfully attempted to place on board the Bermuda when that vessel was seizea by the United States authorities recently, was said to have neen engaged to-day in transferring her cargo to the steamer. It was also said that late to-night the Ber- muda had a full head of steam on and was ready to slip out of che harbor at any mo- ment. CHARLES STERN CAPTURED. Flight of the Fugitive New York Broker Checked by Officers at Halifax. HALIFAX, N. S.,, March 14.—Charles Stern, a fugitive from American justice, was captured here late this aiternoon, just after he had boarded the Dominion line mail steamer Scotsman to take passage for Liverpoo!. Concealed in his clothing was found nearly $15,000 in cash, drafts and bonds, and in a valise he carried about $2000 worth of jewels. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 14.—Charles Stern was a broker in this city and is wanted here for having swindled a rumber of barking-houses out of large sums of money. His arrest was effected through the telegrams sent by central office au- HAVANA, Cusi, March 14.—The_insur- gent forces under General Maceo attached Batabano, in the province of Havana, to- day. The garrison of the place repulsed the ‘attack. The rebels during their re- treat burned a few houses on the outskirts of the town. e INNOCENT MEN PUT TO DEATH. Murders Committed by Brutal Military ' @overnors in Cuba. TAMPA, Fra., March 14.—The following letter, addressed to -the American press, hias been received in this city by mail from Cuba: “If the Government that unhappily rules the destinies of this unfortunate country should betrue to the most rudimentary thorities to various points in Canada and Nova Scotia. Among Stern’s victims are C. B. Rich- ards & Co., of 61 Broldwai; Clark & Bro. of 158 Nassau street, and Knauth, Nachod & Kuhn, of 13 Wilham sireet. Stern formerly ran a broker’s office at 30 State street and had business dealings with a number of down town banking estab- lishments. It is believed that Stern swin- dled a large number of persons in this city who deposited money with him to be sent to the other side. ¢ -~ Mark Twain Will Recover. LONDON, Exc., March 14.—A dispatch from Bombay says: Mark Twain is ill at Jeypore, but will recover. His condition is not so serious as at first reporteda DISCUSSION 1S NOT POSSIBLE, Instructions Sent 'Relating to the Proposals for Peace. MENELIK IS PREPARED. One Hundred Thousand Warriors Reviewed in the Presence of Major Salsa. AN ADVANCE OF DERVISHES, With a View to Aiding Italy British Forces Are Ordered to March at Once. ROME, ItarLy, March 14.—The Govern- ment has sent a dispatch to General Bald- issera, commanding the Italian forcesin Africa, stating that no discussion is possi- ble on the peace proposals of King Men~ elik. The Socialist Deputies De Felice, Bam batto and Bosco were liberated to-day un- der the amnesty granted by the King, They will appear in the Chamber on Tues- day. De Felice was elected in the Second District of Catania and the Fourth Dis- trict of Rome. Dr. Barbettd in the Fiith District of Milan, and Bosco in the Fourth District of Palermo. Dispatches from Massowah say King Menelik reviewed his troops in the pres- ence of Major Salsa, who went to the Abyssinian camp to obtain permission to bury the bodies of the Italians kilied in the battle of Adowa. In the review 100,000 well-armed Abyssinian troops marched past in good order. King Menelik showed Major Salsa his stores of ammunition and provisions. The Tribuna says that the proposals of the Abyssinian King Menelik for peace with Italy include a demand that King Humbert send him an autograph letter re- questing peace and agreeing to the imme- diate evacuation of Adigrat by the Italians. Menelik, the paper says, further insists upon the withdrawal of Italy’s forces to the frontiers fixed in the treaty concluded by Ucciali and an agreement on the part of Italy to refrain irom erecting new fortresses and to decline 2!l offers of an abliance with an outside colony. Mene- Gk, the Titbuna says, promises, if these eonditions are eomplied with, to undertake to oppose any advance by the Dervishes on Kassala. LONDON, ExG., March 14.—A dispatch from Cairo saysthat the fast of Ramadan will end on March 15, and it is probable that the Dervishes will immediately there- after advance northward from Dongola. A great deal of anxiety is felt at Cairo over the situation, and the military authorities have been in conference for the purpose of considering what steps will be taken. Baron de Courcel, the French Embassa- dor to Great Britain, crossed thechannel from Dover to Calais this morning on bis way to Paris to report to the Government the result of a prolonged interview which he had with Lord Salisbury last evening.. It is believed that the conference had especial reference to Egypt. CAIRO, Ecypr, March 14.—Orders have been given to advance upon Dongola with- out delay. A British regiment and Egyp- tian battalion will start immediately. S TO FIGHT THE DERVISHES. Plans and Significance of the Anglo- Egyptian Expedition. LONDON, E~a, March 14.—It is the opinion in highly informed military cir- cles that the objective point of the Anglo- Egyptian expedition, mention of whi was made in these dispatches this week, is not Dongola, but Berber. The Govern- ment . is interested in minimizing the im- portance of the enterprise and it will doubtless, when explaining the matter to the House of Commons, speak of the ex- pedition as an Egyptian one arising from the necessity of checking the projected ad- vance of the Mahdists into Egpyt. The object of the expedition is not the protection of Egypt, but is to make a di- version in favor of the Italians at Kassala. This seems to be the best possible line of action to assist Italy without drawing upon the British treasury, while at the same time it will shelve indefinitely the demands for the British evacuation of Egypt. The main cost of the expedition will fall upon the Egyptian treasury, which is now in a condition to bear a financial strain. 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