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Faehoda! and on the 3rd Novenbor the 1'rench Government
gave him official orders to evacuate it. The cricie wan
over and the French had boon kept out of the file Valley.
In Britain public opinion was unanimously anti-
French, and there was a remarkable aggressive determination
to go to war rather than to give way* The Echo co=euted
"There has been nothing like it since the national
resentment at the famous German telegram.... All the anti-
Jingoen save 13r. Lobouchoro, who is practically a
Frenchman tool its larch"
(1)
The victory of Omdurman was greeted with an
outburst of delight in which the desire to avenge Gordon
played an important part. The Daily flail headed the
news of the victory, "To honour Gordon. "
Mall Gazette declared, "One thought has leapt to
(2)
The Pall
oxpreanion by everybody from the man in Trafalgar Square
to the German Emperor and every leader writers Gordon
in avdnged. That in a perfecti; r proper thought, and
sheer insincerity to pretend to be "superior" to it. "
(1) Echo. 14th October 1898,
(2) tinily_Mail$ 10th September 1898,
(3) Poll Maul Gazette, 5th September 1698.
it in
(3)