The course of ey-nts in the Near Enst is causing " certain amount of wiewsiness here. "Che visit of the G-rman Kmperor to Palestine is specially unpalatable, Hither'o the victori-n of her-soldiers, the work of her savants and the establishment of schools and hospitals by her missionaries have given France the lealing position among European nations in Syrin, but it is felt that she Emperor Witliam's visit, and particularly "the clsburate preparations which the Sultan is. making to receive his guest, cannot but have " zo-at influence on the native mind, Tt looks as if Germany were about to reap her reward for support> leg Turkey during, and after, the war with Greece. 4s usual' France pays the piper while Russia fills her poche's with the spoils of China, With the British fag flying at Khartoum and the. Kmperor William posing as the real protector of Christians in the Kast, French prestige in that part of the world will be seriously diminished.
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