Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1898 — NEW MENACE FOR ENGLAND. [ARTICLE]

NEW MENACE FOR ENGLAND.

British Posic.iionn in Africa Threatened by Rival Nations. The Cairo correspondent of the London Daily Mail says, uh part explanation of the British advance np the Nile, that it is believed French expeditions have arrived quite close to Khartoum. According to the same authority, the British force will be commanded by Maj. Gen. Sir Francis Grenfelt. The Rome correspondent of the Daily Mail says: “I learn from private sources that the Italian foreign office has received information that Emperor Menelek has summoned the Abyssinian* to arms in support of the French enterprises in equatorial Africa, and especially the plans of the Russian, Count Dcontieff, jativernor of the equatorial provinces of Abyssinia. “Menelek himself is setting out at the head of an army, and it is believed the movement marks an expedition ■ against the Anglophile Ras Mangascia, whose province, Tigre, the negus wishes to annex. I also hear that Menelek, Calculating upon the remissness of the Italian Government, purposes an advance toward the coast.” A dispatch from Cairo, via Paris, on Friday announced that a French expedition had occupied Fashodn, on the Nile, about 400 miles south of Kbartonm, and that it wan reported among the natives that the French were descending the river.