AFRICA.
ANGLO-FRENCH INTEREST.
SATISFACTORY SETTLEMENT.
A BRITISH ADVANCE,
LONDON, December 11
" St. James Gazette " states that Great Britain and France have agreed on a basis of a satisfactory arrangement by which the boundary of British territory to the east of the Niger will be drawn from Say to Barruwa, near Lake Chad. The difficulty with the Gold Coast Hinterland is also stated to have been practically settled. Great Britain firmly insisted upon her claims to the Borgu country, situated north of Dahomey, and M. Hanotaux, the French Foreign Minister, was willing to recognise the priority of British rights to the territory. It is probably the French boundary will be drawn slightly to the south of Say.
A force under Major S. C. Jenkinson, of the Derbyshire Regiment, has occupied Bova, on the Gold Coast, having met with no opj-osition.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 289, 13 December 1897, Page 5
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