Show THE QUESTION oz the occupation of by X england is likely tomake more talk i and nd dip diplomacy amacy it is a bare bleak turtle occupy occupying in g rock situ bitu situated atef at the entrance of the red sea england first fortified in when whon napoleon olon tin thi first ivas kvas was i in n egypt ake of course because f she choose to do so she bhe then for the same same satisfactory reason abandoned it it vas was left ae atto to the turtles for a half a century centar Y and now england again 0 occupies it because she chooses to do i it t for a year the french journals have been scolding about this encroachment croach ment as they say on the independence of oabe ahe ottoman porte and been inspiriting up the sultan to demand its evacuation this thiede de mand has just been complied with turkey ai at length asks england to evacuate india has become the source from which england expects to replenish be her r wealth and maintain her greatness and lind there is no subject to her herhalt half balf so great as india Thelast the last measure adopted as to the east is a red sea telegraph line to obtain the construe tion of this line une to thug thus unite india and england the british government guaranty capitalists ay 4 per cent inte interest iest lest for fifty years a proffer thac that leaves no doubt that the project will be speedily carried out this interest too is to commence immediately this india line has been long in a fog fow so far as turkey is concerned two routes nave have been bien urged one by the red sea and another for two years by the persian gulf via via vla tigris and the government hab has been supposed to favor savor the latter route the decision in favor of the red sea route was quite unexpected there is nothing now in the way ot of the completion of this line as the porte has given the english englis h company permission to construct it through the red sea and by the way ot alexandria Itis lois regarded as singular and significant that the porte so go soon after granting this permission should have been pushed up by france and russia to demand england to evacuate it is evidence of the weak ness of turkey of the hold that france has upon her the truth is england is jealous of the proposed suez ship canal that isthmus 1 question is of the same paramount ar amount importance ter ier to england in view nf of her vast itala lidia posses that the panama isthmus question is to the united states in view of our empire on the pacific it is probable england will not give up boston statesman sep 3 |