Show tTTTT wT1 T IP TT TrTi WERE RECEIVED WITH PEN ARMS Menelik Graciously Meets the Red Cross People ENGLAND FOOLISH TO FEAR THE THIRD EXPEDITION TO ABY SINNIA Experiences of the Two Former Were Not So Pleasant as Those of the Present One Promise to Be Twenty Thousand Small Crosses to Be Distributed Among the Ahy siniiiaus NEW YORK May llA dispatch to the Herald from St Petersburg says General Shvendorff head of the Russian Rus-sian Red Cross society and leader of the expedition to Abyssinia telegraphs saying that he and his party have been received with open arms and that Menelik is making extensive preparations prepara-tions for their passage to Herat The Novoe Vremya says that Eng lands fears about Herat are unfounded The Red Cross expedition to Abyssinia left Odessa early in ApriL This is the third expedition to Abyssinia The first under Cossack Ashinoff left in December 1888 and ended by being shelled by the French at Sagollo The second which was called a scientific mission left about eighteen months ago and resulted in the arrival in St Petersburg of a political embassy from the Negus with a special mission respecting re-specting the religion of the Russian church and the faith professed by the Abyssinians The present mission under the command of General Shven dor assisted by several military officers of-ficers consisted of about eighty members mem-bers of which the medical staff numbers num-bers six doctors and twelve nurses Of the other members of the expedition little is stated except that one is a priest who is taking twenty thousand small crosses to be distributed among the Abyssinians It is expected in Russian Rus-sian official circles that this expedition will give Russia that footing in Abyssinia Abys-sinia which she has been so patiently trying to obtain |