12 NOVEMBER 1898, Page 2

The Dupuy Cabinet evidently thinks that its policy is to

say nothing about Fashoda, and has impressed that policy upon the Press. Even in the official programme laid before the Chambers on Friday week it barely alludes to it, saying : "We are anxious to adjust our efforts to the value of the aim." The programme itself is of no interest, the only pledges given being that the Government will maintain the supremacy of the civil power, and will introduce an Income- tax without any inquisitorial provisions and with total exemptions for the poor. For the rest, France "has aroused the hopes of all the nations" by arranging a Great Exhibi- tion for 1900.