Lord Salisbury Threatens France

At the lord mayor's annual banquet at London the marquis of Salisbury, the British premier, after referring to other matters, introduced the trouble betweea England and France in West África, and said: "It might not achieve ihe general coneiliatory process deired f I entered frankly into all the negotiations between the powers I respe cting África. We are all aware of the great extent of territory cast loase during the last 20 years in África and put up aa the object of acqujsition for several enterprising governors. We desire that territory to be governed on xtriet Drincides of riht and with stant regard U iis prosperity and to th interest of the empire.: W wiah trada to pursue an uncheckered courae a ths Niger, the Nile and the Zambeai, and in doinff these things while we wish to behave in % neiffhborly manner and to show due consideration for the feelings and claims of others, we are obliged to say that there is a a limit to the exercise of thiS particular set of feelinjfs and we cannot allow our plain righta to be over-ridden."