15 OCTOBER 1898, Page 2

The French have achieved an important success in West Africa

which will greatly soothe their irritable pride. They have defeated Samory and captured him, with the whole of his chiefs and personal following. For fifteen years this chief, half Sultan, half bandit, has been a menace to both the French and English; and his final disappearance will open the whole Hinterland of Liberia, and allow both States, if they can keep from quarrelling, to utilise their estates. The victory is for both a most fortunate and reconciling incident.