The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-07-10
LITTLE WAR CLOUD.
important Instructions Sent
to the British Naval Squa-
drOn in the Pacific Ocean.
Men-of-War Gathering to De-
fend Canadian Sealing
Vessels.

LONDON. Special-That important instruc-
Cions have been sent to the British naval
squadron in the Pacific is matter of we'll
authenticated report, but the nature of
the instructions cannot definitely be ascer-
tanned.
1t is understood that the flagship War
spite has been ordered to the Pacific coast
of Brush America, and that formidable
array OF men-of-war is to be gathered there
to defend vessels sailing under the English
flag against American attack. How far the
English may be prepared to go is not stated,
but American cruisers conveying prizes to
San Francisco will be very likely to en-
counter English ships of war on the voy-
age, and probably be asked for explana-
tons.
1t is stated that the American naval force
on the Pacific is insignificant compared
with the British squadron, and that the
English will have no dificultyin sustaining
England's rights, as they are called, in
those waters. A hostile encounter between
British and American war ships would not
ofnecessity involve war, but would certain
ly tend to provoke it. In this connection
Lieut.. Gen. Henry Brackenbury, of the
British army, director of military intelli-
gence and brother of the late eminent Maj
Gen. Brackenbury, is quoted as comment
ing on the recent assertion that Canada
would fall a ready prey in the event of q
war between
THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN:
1t took the Northern states four years to con-
quer the states of the South, and that with
every advantage i'll the way of climate and
knowledge of the country invaded as well as the
great and unusual advantage of the presence of
several millions of slave population in sYmpa-
thy with the inhabitants and from whom many
valuable recruits were obtained for the North
ern army.
The United States would find the invasion of
Canada even a more formidable task. Winter
campaigning, which was far from difficult in the
warm climate OF the Confederacy, would
be impossible there, and an army
caught in the winter SHOWS would either
be hemmed in, with imminent risk of destruc-
tiOn by energetic and tireless enemy, or
would have to retreat under circumstances not
dissimilar as to weather from Napoleon's disas-
trous retreat amid the SHOWS and piercing gales
of a Russian winter.
Besides the ports of Canada would not be
blockaded, as were the ports OF the South dur
ing the war, and the supply of men and material
would be abundant. The Americans of British
and Irish stock are undoubtedly, with proper
discipline, soldiers equal to any in the world
from the continent of Europe very large proper
! tion are fugitiveS from military service.
The general added that war between
Great Britain and the United States was
calamity not to be contemplated without
the most serious provocation; but that in
the event of such war an invasion of Can
ada would not be holiday campaign.
The aggressive action in regard to the Behr-
ing sea issomewhat compGicated IN In pP0QuIar
| opinion here with the rising indignation
on the subject OF the American tariff.