A STANLEY ENQUIRY.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7778, 4 February 1891, Page 2

A STANLEY ENQUIRY.

Mr Wilfrid Scawen Bltmfe, *«gM • letter from the Garden of **• f*J| Obeyd, near Cairo, suggests is WgC JfaM (?<wetfe the following V*Jf " for the use of 6 Judlel&l entfgH the doings of the Stanley wgJJSJ 1. Under whatlepjal sanction p «J|jgl and hie companions make theWO Africa? Was he the officer of any Governmeot-WiW|Jf Company's, the Khedives o*J*f<tUt Sultan's of Zanzibar, or our and his operations extended «WLL dominions of any one of the»«g* ? mente. are not his actions »«gj{*fr the ordinary laws of piracy? I jg* jjifr man could fit out a yacht in •WfjsS® war on etrangere, and enfoMjM"» • on board with the penalty of &»|Jp|; out a commission, and remain übw» j f °s!Vhat wae the true troth ott*jg£ of the expedition ? I eew &t*|«r ■sysstftf s*?ggs^: the time bdloved «J»*fiSii:f, desperadoes-bad any h»f»Bt f S>J! ceminly not that of rescuing &s* f did not want to rescued. >^ a Stanley, now that the toott <£&$ show, throws aU the blame of &&%& on dead men. 2?® Commisai| K^fr , try and set from him hie own .w bUI" with the advanced «»O«SidHS: many negro lives were r*g*4» thie march ? How by his orders, perhaps for the refusing him food or carrfers, » Ward Rives evidence that »"&af • himself has had no hesitationJβ bis Zanzlbarl porters." j has Stanley shot? n^fitr**' 4, Id not the Britleh ggjjto which has assumed the : zibar, bound to see> Stanley Ff^^g?.. ' the death of 4hese Zarisibarfs I : ; posins him to be the of a recognised Government, •» amenable to eentence ofi •• l tion ? Or does the British ««&! -• , recognise these W«r« ,•* wife* ■ S l«vs? He himself seems, fBWJ ; to the Tfmea, to consider the tera» *J m r!eit quite impossible £ fjjtf |-' diplomatic reaeone which i»jgM } British Government to (or whatever was the » u *>jgA»»i Egyptian purse, for Hifa en*"" unprofltabfe a one to Egyp* ? i