THE SOUDAN.
Rome, April 27. The Tribune’s correspondent at Adigrat sends proof that King Menclek of Abyssinia and the Khalifa of the Soudan are allied.
RUSSIA AND FRANCE
The New York Herald’s St. Petersburg cable, of March 22, says that France will certainly have the support of Russia in whatever policy she chooses to adopt in Egypt. The feeling in St. Petersburg again.-,t England and Germany is bitterly expressed. The Paris correspondent of the London Times, on the same date, declares that Franco is repeating in her present, position the mistake she made in 18S2 upon the occasion of the bombardment of Alexandria and the occupation of Egypt by the ilritish. An Odessa despatch to the London Daily News, on March 23, says the Novoo Vremya and Novosti admit that England has a mission to protect the Nile Valley, and that Dongola, Kassala and Berber, the throe keys to the Soudan, must eventually fall into England’s hands.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1261, 30 April 1896, Page 29
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