| Show THE FALL OP OF decisive victory achieved by the british and egyptian forces at juakin yesterday does not rest reat upon merely driving the rebellious arabs from th their air entrenched position and killing se several ve r a I 1 hundred ol of them tor for such a result could be gained at almost any point where the burly biriton saw fit at to st strike rike in a country where all that exists is ot of and belonging to past ages save only so BO much ot of the implements ot or civilization as have been brought to it from abroad juakin to is situated on a little island just off the west coast of the red bed sea the dividing lizie aae between asla asia and africa Afric ii tt it is shout about midway between the northern and southern extremities of the sea which is about 1200 miles long and miles average width is about 5 miles from rog bog land ay oy water and 2 miles from the nearest point in india it is a k kind ind of rendezvous or stopover stop over aver place for mr mb from eastern apica africa to mecca and return a and is so eo situated as to command a great proportion of the trade carried on with the towns and VIUS vill villager agea s thickly strewn along the nile t la in t that t region the nearest of any consequence aint belne fil 81 Mek beir miles due west it has bag g flae due harbor and being beine flanked by high mountains mount ainu is capable of being wide made a strongly fortified point it might be called one of the somewhat numerous name roas keys of the chief waterway connecting the atlantic and indian oceans ocean through the mau man made link ot of the suez canal it is of more value to england on this account than any obber anything that tends toward india or is remotely connected liy kay trade sympathy or the chalu chain of 0 commercial elp COD I 1 with it is looked upon babo by the british government it not la in its pos poa with it a J It SIOUS alous sometimes with a lon loniK gluc lna eye to in either ease case a movement as silent ard and it may be as alow but generally as as that of 0 the glacier Is inaugurated and before other powers know exactly what is meant or being done abi bolt his has fallen the flag na of the mighty empire floats in ia triumph over another section of foreign territory juakin contains usually from 5 W to inhabitants moat ot of it and therefore indefinite at this time there is perhaps more dainty as to its numerical status than tor for a long time past it if not altogether the investors of the place comp comprise riso i the population pul atlon mad and mhd ir numbers are bastry eastry easily ascertained one dark cloud cious that appears before the civilized world because of the capture i is the effect it may have upon tae ino fate of stanley it Is fe understood that osman digga offered some da claa a ago ao to release the explorer as a the price ot of british withdrawal from juakin it if be was actually holding the white mao man to be played as asa a trump card in the manner indicated what he be will no when mien be learns enat the city is ia in full fall possession of the enemy can only by be conjectured but it is reas mable to suppose that the worst will result lie he would scarcely have offered tri to make such a trade it stanley were wera oot in its his custody because nothing of consequence be gained to him by a withdrawal and im return when the deception was discovered in intact fact there was a great deal to lose by such a course aud and the oft rebel chief is certainly smart to understand all that anxiety as to lo what has become of the amerl american cau aud and his party to is intensified of cour course tse audi amat it if dead the howess all want to know knok when how bow and by whom it was dowa A dispatch states that the germade relief relict expedition will start out at atones ariev but it is a cruel probability tuat bedfor o it reaches its itis field of 04 ti rt ings will have reached it which viv TW i I 1 render further prosecution of 11 a labor of love unnecessary later dispatches announce anno once the th its fety of stanley abas will be aty mo news to all |
