NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THERE is little or nothing to say this week as to the crisis on the Upper Nile. No news has been received from the Sirdar, though by this time he must have arrived at Fashoda. That he will be as discreet as he will be firm goes without saying, but the situation is unquestionably a grave one. Meantime the French Press is alternately angry and reason- able. The mass of the French people know nothing about Fashoda, bat the Chauvinists are extremely busy and pro. 'vocative. There is also a danger that Fashoda may be used to divert attention from the Dreyfus scandals. Here public opinion is solid and resolute. Fashoda cannot, and will not, be resigned. What makes Englishmen more than usually -confident that they are in the right is the fact that the French Government have been repeatedly warned in the most formal and solemn manner that we shall regard any occupation of the Upper Nile as an unfriendly act. It is quite impossible for France to urge that her occupation, whether right or wrong, was made in ignorance of our views and determinations in the matter.
