NATURE OF THE CONCESSIONS.
THE ATTITUDE OF RUSSIA. * " A Friend's Friends Are Our j l Friends." j P LONDON, April 12. \] Arbitration will be utilised to settle the indemnity due to the Frenchmen engaged in nshing and canning on the treaty shore of Newfoundland. They will be compelled, owing to the present agreement, to relinquish the industry and their establishments, British concessions to France, north- \ , ward of Sokoto. in Africa, consist of 8000 „" square miles, chietiy desert. ° The agreement provides for the least ~ possible disturbance of existing condi- ■ tions in the various countries included in C the arrangements. The Russian Ambassador in Paris, in j an interview, eulogised the settlement of j questions relating to Egypt and Morocco, and added that Russia ia de ighted, as in ally, at the fresh guarantee of >trength and security accruing to France. Moreover, a proverb says, "A friend's friends are our friends." Who knows ! whether the proverb may not be verified ' afresh ?
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 88, 13 April 1904, Page 7
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