4th Nov. 'THE Spectator of the 17th of September contains two excellent articles, which are specially interesting at the resent moment, one headed "F'ashoda and the French," the other "France and the New Teror." When they were written it was not known for certain that the white men who fired on the Khalifa's steamers at. Fashoda were French, but the Spectator, rightly as it turned out, adopted the view taken in Paris, and concluded that, they were French. That being so, the Spectator takes the following view of what should be done by our Government:—
We must inform the Frenchmen in question that Fashoda is part of the: possessions of Byypt, and tell them further that though they are most welcome ta stop for a time at Fxshoda cither as individually the guests of England and Egypt, or else as a scientific and exploring expedition-
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