BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

Evening Star, Issue 10782, 17 November 1898, Page 2

BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

A~ SPEECH BYMRTJHAMBERLAIN. THE NILE VALLEY MUST BE EGYPT’S, POSTS MUST BEWITHDRAWN. Freaa Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 16. Mr Chamberlain, speaking at Manchester, said the relief from the acute tension and immediate danger was largely attributable to the spectacle of a united nation;- It would be folly to relax precautions until the danger was passed. He hoped the French withdrawal from Fashoda indicated, a recognition of the principle that Egypt must possess the whole of the Nile valley and all the territories previously held by theMahdi. , It was impossible .that the sources of the Nile should be in the hands of an unfriendly Power. Great Britain would not discuss that principle, but was willing to entertain boundary questions and guarantee commercial access to the Nile waterway. Posts which were established. in*the territories formerly under Egyptian rule must be withdrawn. The tactics of France throughout the world had long been habitually directed to embarrassing Great Britain. It was a great mistake to believe that Great Britain would ever yield anything to pressure, and if the Fashoda incident had disabused the minds of persons of this impression it had proved a blessing in disguise;