GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 7369, 17 November 1898, Page 1

GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

(By KLBcrasiq Telegraph—Copyright.)

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION)

Received November 17, at 9.40 a.m. London, November 16.

Mr Chamberlain, speaking at Manchester, said the relief from the acute tension and immediate danger was largely attributable to the spectacle of a united nation. It would tie folly to relax precautions until the danger had passed. He hoped the French withdrawal from Faahoda indicated a recognition of the principle that Egypt rhust possess the whole Nile "Valley, and all the territories previously held by the Mahdi. It was impossible that the sources of the Nile should be in the hands of an unfriendly Power. Great Britain would not discuss that principle, but was willing to entertain boundary questions, and guarantee commercial access to the Nile waterways. Posts which were established in territories formerly under Egyptian rule must be withdrawn. The tactics of France throughout had long been habitually directed to embarrassing Great Britain. £t was a great mistake to believe that Great Britain would ever yield anything to pressure. _ if Fashoda had disabused this impression, it bad proved a blessing in disguise. Massowah, November 15. An Ahyssipian mission will meet Major I Marchand on the Abyssinian frontier, en route to Jubitil.