SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS.
Bt Electric Telegraph—Copykiohi.) (special to press association.) Londo>", March 17. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Carnpbcll-Bannerman, Secretary of State for the War Department, said that it was his intention to shortly withdraw the battalion from Egypt, strengthening the forces at the C.ipe and Mauritius. He remarked that the croaking recently indulged in about the state of the British army was unjustified, and that he thought that the best policy was to leave well alone. New York, March 17. The Spanish Minister in New York declares that the United States steamer Alliance was runnins a blockade on the Cuban coast when she was fired at by the Spanish man-of-war. Pari.s, March 17. The Figaro reports that in the course of an interview, Lord Cromer, British representative in Egypt, declared that anarchy was certain to follow the evacuation of the country by the British, and that it was impossible even to consider sncfta step at present. He added that the attitude of France in encouraging turbulence in the country only served to prolong the term of British occupation.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XX, Issue 6209, 19 March 1895, Page 3
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