Show BRITAIN IN THE SOUDAN As the days go by there is more than ever an anxiety as to the late fate in store t ore for the british expedition to the soudan one thing is reasonably cor certain tain viz that if there is sufficient in the combined efforts of the le Sou danese the present british and egyptian force will meet with over tantow for all the tribes of that region have a bitterly hostile feeling toward he be english as they have also for other western europeans it to is not to be expected however that even a disastrous defeat of the force now ad advancing carefully would britain out as effectually as the ba tle tie of adois caused the italians italiane to their policy in abyssinia Abyss iula british persistency and determination are not of the same order as that dis clayed flayed recently by the inhabitants of sunny italy if it had bad been an english force in steal of that which the Abys siniann bad to contend with that was defeated the united kingdom would have been blaze with alib a demand for vengeance that would have sent ment all the nation fai available striking power to retrieve tb lose and maintain the national reputation as aa a conqueror and ruler ot of semi barbarous peoples people but the impending danger to britain Is not from froin the opposition 0 the be Sou danese alone behind it is the probability of a combination between king menelek of 0 abyssinia and the kalidas with a hackling backing to the former by russia true the Sou danese leader refused such an alliance with mens mene leks predecessor eMor but conditions have changed and the dervishes now prefer friendship to its enmity in religion the approach that of the russian orthodox church while the russians have shown show 6 great interest in abyssinia for a number of years in fact it to la freely asserted that Mene leks forces in the italian campaign were largely directed direct ea by russian officers and advisers in the event of an alliance between the two african peoples the russian sympathy would remain where it Is and the combination probably would prove altogether too mutch for britain not alone because of what might oscur occur on the battlefields of africa but by rea son so a of the complications in europe in view of these circumstances circumstance it is reasonable to conclude that british success in the boudan depends moro more on the outcome of diplomacy in europe than in the passage st at arms in the soudan it if england meets with defeat in a determined warlike policy in central africa we may be sure that an awful shaking of bones will attend some other european nations because of this possibility the whole world is concerned in what great britain makes up her mind to attempt for we may anticipate no half way measures about it even it it sets europe all ablaze |