Major's Labor Lost

MAJOR'S LABOR LOST

Marchand Will Withdraw from Fashoda by Order of the French Government, 

SO ANNOUNCES LORD SALISBURY,

Thereby Eliminating the Most Acute Cause of Trouble, but Not All Cause, Says the Marquis-Announcement Made at a Banquet to Kitchener Given by the Lord Mayor-Sirdar Is the Hero of the Hour in the British Metropolis.

London, Nov. 5. - General Kitchener was given an ovation by the people of London as he rode through the streets yesterday to Guild Hall to receive a sword of honor, the gift of the City of London. But interest in his presence here, in spite of his renown and the magnificent service he has rendered the empire, was greatest in regard to what would be said at the banquet at night; for there it was expected that Lord Salisbury would announce the withdrawal of Marchand from Fashoda. The banquet was given at the Mansion House by the lord mayor, and was an exceptionally brilliant affair. A trophy of British and Egyptian flags entwined had been arranged above the lord mayor's seat. The guests included the Duke of Cambridge, the Marquis of Salisbury and the other cabinet ministers, Lord Roberts of Kandahar, Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Lord Rosebery, Lord Wolseley, Lord Russell of Killowen (lord chief justice), Henry White (United States charge d'affaires), Judge Lambert Tree (formerly United States minister to Russia), and others of the highest rank in the British empire. In all there were about 350 guests present.

Kitchener Received with Great Acclaim.

General Kitchener was attired in the uniform of a major general of the British army, with the ribbon of the Osmanieh order. He was greeted with tremendous cheering from the assembled guests. The banquet was served in the Egyptian Hall of the Mansion House. General Kitchener sat on the right hand of the lord mayor, and the Duke of Cambridge was seated on the lord mayor's left. After the dinner proper the lady mayoress and a number of other ladies were accommodated with seats in the gallery in order to enable them to hear the speeches. After the loving cup had been circulated the lord mayor toasted the queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales and the royal family, to which the Duke of Cambridge responded.

Rosebery Toasts the Forces.

Lord Rosebery toasted the army and navy, paying a glowing tribute to Lord Kitchener and his gallant comrades, and to Lord Cromer and the Egyptian and Soudanese forces, "whose brilliant campaign, just closed, is the most consummate in the annals of British military history for eighty years, and far more beneficent and extended in its results than, perhaps, any recorded in history." The campaign, said Lord Rosebery, had wiped out the "bloodiest and most barbarous tyranny in the history of mankind." He concluded by expressing the opinion that Great Britain had "a right to expect from the nations whose territory borders on the dervish territory, not ill-feeling and jealousy, but the fullest measure of gratitude."

There was a feeling of expectancy throughout the speeches and everything that could be construed as an allusion to war was jumped at by the assembly with prolonged cheers. When Sir Newell Salmon alluded to "the preparedness of the navy." and Lord Lansdowne to he "readiness of the army," there were prolonged outbursts of applause.