Salt Lake Tribune | 1894-05-24 | Page 4 | A Doubtful Treaty

A DOUBTFUL TREATY the english end and belgian treaty just announced as aa a signal triumph for the king of 0 belgium hardly too looks a that way at this distance on the contrary it looks decidedly an aa it if england had again kot got in her work the right or of protecting ingabe the left backof bank of the ilia nile down to the lath deg of latitude 11 ll gis glien ell to ilia aa jang VS ja 16 and nd he Is alone conceded the obligation got of righting thaders thad dervishes erv aln 1 tc turn for these great creat lied and perhaps somewhat costly prin bri illges the king ot of bet bel aluni cedes to england Sn island a small strip of territory in the region of the upper congo thus giving england lin gland access northward to the nile that is the congo free states will not only fight the tha soudan dervishes single handed but will protect seventeen degrees of 0 the left bank of the nile and also give elve to england a possession that connects tier her former territory along the nile kilo and south through central africa giving her ter almost it if hot quite continuous claims from alexandria Alexan urlo to capetown cape town and the seventeen degrees of the left bafik of the nile will be hers also on the death of 0 the king of belgium it remains to be seen what the other po powers W era contending in africa all say bay to all this lut but if ft the treaty Is allowed to stand as te leport ported cd and the kins hini of 0 belgium considers he has made a master stroke of 0 diplomacy in negotiating it then he must be easily suited and it is certain that he would stand a mighty poor show with coxey in a horse trade