GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE.
SETTLEMENT OF THE 1 NIGER DIFFICULTY. THE TERMS OF THE CONVENTION. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. Received June 14th, 9.30 a.m. London, June 18. The Convention between Great Britain and France in regard to the Niger is ready for signature. By its terms France receives a stretch of the Niger territory between Say and 110 and retains Nikki, and Great Britain is allotted Boussa and Beri. Two isolated settlements below the Niger rapids are to be leased to France as commercial depots for the Dahomey trade. The British supremacy from 110 to Mount Niger is acknowledged. The Hinterland of the Gold Coast is made to extend as far as the eleventh parallel. Boma is allotted to France, Great Britain receiving a zone of sixty miles in northern Sokoto. It has been arranged that neither country shall accord preferential treatment to home products.
" The Times " says that the Niger settlement is apparently a reasonable one, since Great Britain has slept on her rights.
The " Standard " expresses satisfaction at the arrangement, but is not enthusiastic.
The "Daily Chronicle" denounces it as a surrender of British rights.
Received June 15th, 12.40 a.m.
Paris, June 14.
The French newspapers are satisfied, since access to the Lower Niger has been secured and the Niger colonies have not been severed from each other.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 10063, 15 June 1898, Page 5
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