FRANCE AND MADAGASCAR.

Evening Star, Issue 9889, 28 December 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

FRANCE AND MADAGASCAR.

The French people are said to be dissatisfied with the Madagascar settlement- It is argued that the results obtained are not an equivalent>*for the expenditure of over the lon of 6.000 or 7.9Q0 Uves.Mhe acceptance by the Queen's -Government of V the protectorate of France, with all its consequences," means that the island is absoftitely in the power of the French .Resident at Antananarivo and his masters. atciParis.. The Queen is simply an ornamental figurehead, for it is expressly provided that ♦' the Resident-General shall control the internal administration," and

shall maintain such a-military force as may be. necessary for that and other purposes. The treaty which has been signed is, in fwt, the identical document which General Duchesne &ok onfc with him, and if it ia objected'to in Franoe that it does not protean reward for French sacriflops, it pan only be by those who look at phraseology, alone, and not at its obvious meaning*; A Paris correspondent of . the * oaljs the arrangement annexation in diaguise, but if there fs disguiße it is very thin indeed., Aa was to be expected, the treaty stipulates that all transactions in which foreigners tee concerned shall be subject to French eontrol, and irom this it totlows, of oonpe, that concessions of any kind will not be granted to foreigners unless it shpuld appear defiirable to the Resident to «Jcord thenj. All concessions granted by the Malagasy Government prior to the treaty' repudiated. The Queen's will not be able to contagtg trench authority. said about differential Customs duties in favoi of Frahce; but, eeeing that all engagements of whatsoever kind are declaredliaUe to be caooeUed, the < Debate' seenu to bean the right when it argues that the Hoya Gwnernj^ent—that is to say, the French denounce any treaties hot hiving; tannl