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QUILLER-COUCH).— CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 153-157 Fifth Avenue, New York Volume 54 The Outlook A Family Paper Saturday, 26 September, 1896 HE capture of Dongola on last Saturday by the Anglo-Egyptian expedition accomplishes the end aimed at by the recent advance on the Nile as announced in Parliament before the expedition started. In point of fact, no one doubts that General Kitchener will push on to Berber and thence to Khartoum, thus reconquering the Soudan for Egypt and avenging the death of Gordon. The result of the summer's campaign is gratifying to British pride; no reverses have been encountered, and the only severe losses have been from cholera, which caused the death of over a thousand soldiersmostly Egyptians. The only serious engagement with the Soudanese previous to last. MEDITERRANEAN E ALEXANDA CAIRO G Nile River Number 13 affairs take their course and the Russians make themselves the assignees of bankrupt Turkey, or until Russia consents to English interference. The Great Powers have seldom been in so discreditable a position. The Continental Powers appear to care nothing for the slaughter which is going on in so many places in the Turkish Empire; the English care sincerely, but they are now paying for the false policy of the past. They have several times prevented Russia from going to Constantinople, and now Russia does not propose to let England work her will. English feeling SEA PALEST JERUSALEM ARABIA SER T MOLD DONGOLA DEBBEH DAR FOOR S U EL OBEID White Nile MEDINA MECCA is deep and intense and is apparently gathering in volume, and the English Government would apparently like to act disinterestedly. Not many days ago it seemed to be on the point of acting, but evidently Russia has plainly intimated that she will not permit action, and now there has been a semiofficial backdown. No independent action on the part of England can be expected. The situation has become, however, intolerable to the moral sense of England, and a good deal is hoped from the visit of the Czar and the Czarina at Balmoral Castle during the present week, and the exercise of the great personal influence which the Queen is known to have over her grandson, the ruler of all the Russias. But Russian policy, which is persistent and which has never shown any great sensitiveness to moral considerations, is not likely to be influenced by the appeals of the venerable Queen. There is apparently practical unanimity among the English people in desiring the deposition of the Sultan, who has become a monomaniac in his love of slaughter, but, however much the English people may fume and protest, they find themselves surrounded by what appear insuperable difficulties whenever they attempt to act. Men of affairs who have given particular attention to foreign matters, like Sir Charles Dilke and Lord Rosebery, are agreed regarding the impracticability of single-handed intervention. Meanwhile Turkish rule goes on crumbling faster than ever. Constantinople is in a state of panic. A very small gathering in the street sends people into their houses, closes the shops, and sends a shiver of alarm through the European colony. The Egypt and the Soudan Hafir the British gunboats slipped up the river past the Dervishes and seized Dongola, so that the defeated forces were compelled to retreat away from their base of supplies. It is thought that they may make a desperate attempt to retake Dongola. The natives in the vicinity are said to hail with joy the coming of the Egyptian army, as they have long suffered from the tyranny of the Khalifa Abdallah, the successor of Mahdi. Abdallah, as all who read Slatin Pasha's account of his captivity will remember, is a man of overbearing vanity, cunning but not wise, and frequently cruel. His fall will be a blessing to Central Africa and to the cause of civilization. The situation at Constantinople is apparently insoluble, and is likely to remain so until England consents to let KASSALA |