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The Problem of Defence
The hot summer of 1898 was filled with great events; death removed two men of the first rank from the arena of politics -- Gladstone and Bismarck; in the first week of September the battle of Omdurman gave the Sudan to our hands; and presently came the difficulties with France over Fashoda.