1 SEPTEMBER 1883, Page 1
It would almost seem as if the French were likely
to take warning by the disagreeable hints which they have lately i received of the way in which great enterprises n the East hamper them at home. It looks as if they were intending to make up their quarrel with Madagascar, without attempting to press further their military and naval advantages. It is believed in France that the advance on Antananarivo has been aban- doned for the present, and that France will be content if the Hovas consent to recognise her protectorate over a portion of the coast. Let us hope that public rumour does French policy no more than justice.
