What The Cables Say.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 22, 6 October 1898, Page 20

What The Cables Say.

THE SOUDAN ADVANCE. NOTHING of a notable character has occurred in connection with the British operations in the Soudan. The fears of a collision with the French at Fashoda happily proved groundless. When General Kitchener arrived there he found that Captain Marchand had been in Fashoda since July. He had very little food, and on that account alone, if not "fron the hostile attitude of the Arabs, he would have been obliged to quit the town. General Kitchener informed him that suoh an ineffective occupation was untenable. General Kitchener has now resigned and will shortly return to England. He has been raised to the peerage, and it is expected that he will he appointed Governor-General of the Soudan. EXCITEMENT IN CHINA. Serious anti-foreign feeling is being manifested in the Chinese capital. A mob stoned a member of the British legation and a drunken gathering at Pekin threw muu. and jeered at the Europeans. The secretary to the American Legation had his rib broken and American missionaries were attacked. Grave rumours have been circulated regarding the Emperor. The servants of the Dowager Empress arrested him when he was trying to escape from the palace. It is reported that he has since committed suicide. A body of marines from the British gunboafca are marching towards the capital and the war vesse s of the foreign powers are assembling at Tiensin.

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