Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-01
COY BRITISH DIPLONATISTS
England Turns a Deaf Ear to the WoOing Of
Continental Powers
NOT A PARTY TO ANY COMBINATIONS
Members of the Dricbund Asser'
Britain Has Not Been Ashcd-Ne
gotintions between England
and France Broken on.
copyright. 1895. by the Associated Press.)

10 the Associated press at the time maze
an interesting speech at Lewes on Wednes-
day night last. during the course OF which
he said: without betraying secrets may
saw that a very distinguished German states
man. not Prince Bismarck has been con-
yinced for years that England could not be
moved to war by anything short oil an at
tack on her central interests in this country.
That was very dangerous fallacy, which
has now probably been dislodged.' Mr. Cos
chen also remarked THE new system Oh
log rolling and bartering for alliances has
displaced the old system of balance Of
power between European nations. England
is not clever at this game and has held
aloof. although her alliance Is courted by
several groups of powers"
Those utterances have aroused a great
deal of friction in Austria and Italy. Their
newspapers assume that he alluded TO tne
Dreibund when reference was made TO
''groups of powers" courting Great Britain,
and 1t Is strenuously denied at Vienna that
Great Britain has ever been solicited TO JOIN
the Dreibund.
The Cuban resolution OF the United States
senate has had q mixed reception There
has been considerable feeling In favor OF
Cuban home rule. although many distin-
guished personages and influential organs
are afraid to advocate II for fear OF reawak-
ening the apparently sumbering agitation OF
Ireland The Echo, however, comes out hat
footed on the subject and says The reso.
luton will be warmly approved by civilized
mankind There is not a shadow OF doubt
that President Cleveland will promptly act
in accordance. For more than year Cuba
has been hell on earth, and the Spanards
and Turks are on a par far as atrocities
are concerned
MUST HAVE MORE SHIPS.
The forthcoming proposals of the govern
t1,arf fnsr thn
greatest interest on all sides. Mr.. Goschen
will present the navy statement on Monday
ard the debate on it Will take ac. on Ihurs-
day. The consensus OF opinion on the SUD
ject is that there is an universal determiha- :
tion TO meet the necessary expenditure OF
the moment and protect the country from
the perils of any possible combination Of
powers.
The new commander-n- chief, General
Wolsley In the address which he made on
Thursday in this city advocating increasing
the navy as Great Britain's first line Of de-
fense expressed the opinion that In the
event of war it would be impossible to sever
the food supply of Great Britain. His chief
argument was that all the fleets in the world
would not prevent our American cousins, who
are always looking cut for money and who
have an eye to the main chance, from run
ming into our harbors with cargoes of wheat
and flour.
Paris on the Niger question have been tenn
porariy suspended. The French representa-
tives accuse the British Of trying to ac-
quire control of territory within the French
sphere and there the matter ends for the
present.
The newspapers of Madrid are getting very
wrathy at the action of the United States
senate and the evening newspapers of that
city express themselves in even more vo-
lent language than their morning contempo-
raries They say that, apart from the reso-
luton the language used during the debate
In the senate has made painful impress
sion 1t is ayerred that the allegations Of
the senators are wholly false ana that the
insurgents have no organization. are not mas
ters of a single town and as for their con-
duct, it is asserted that they have massa-
cred the helpless and burned, destroyed and
pillaged plantations and railways. On the
other hand, 1t is maintained that the Span
iards have respected all prisoners and to
call them barbarians is regarded as an un-
provoked and unjustifable insult
There has been a good deal Of notice at
tracted to the remarkably well directed man
ner in which the Ashantee expedition was
organized and carried out. From the hrst
there was not the slightest hitch Of any de-
scription, even in the commissariat.
He welcomes the statement that the whole
expedition only cost 100000 ($600,OOO). 1t
will, therefore be seen that the British have
made pretty good bargain in Ashantee. They
have not only acquired "protectorate' over
Ashantee which mems pratt ca'iy the annexa-
tion of that territory, but the unfortunate
king Prempeh has been fined so 900 ounces
Of gold in addition, so that the little Ashsntee
picnic may be looked upon as being quite
a successful affair." and particularly when its
small cost is considered.
1t is probable that today's debates in the
House of Commons were among the quietest
on record. Everybody felt sleepy, looked
sleepy and acted in a sleepy manner. AS the
slow discussion of the new procedure rules
proceeded the house gradually thinned out
until it presented quite forlorn appearance,
and everybody was glad when the dreary
sitting was over.
Politics during the week have been very
quiet and there has been more attention di-
rected toward Washington than toward any
other capital, unless 1t is Constanttnople to-
day. Where a fresh and apparently very dan
gerous state of affairs suddenly blossomed
out Thus strange to say, the possibility Of
fresh complications at Constantinople comes
as a relief TO the greatly strained minds Of
the political leaders here, for 1t dlstracts at
tention in a certain degree from the clouds
lowering over the British empire.
NEW COMBINATION AGAINST ENGLAND
II reports from Berlin are to be believed
Emperor william of Germany is actively
engaged in trying to form new Drebund
consisting OF Russia. France and Germany
and II is intlmated that he would not be
opposed to a proposition to unite the fleets
of the three countries in an attack upon
mics hope, should lead to the dis
memberment OF the empire. or course the
plan Is by no means new one and has
frequently been previously considered by
much more experienced men than the Ger
man emperor. The fact remains. however.
that the recent warlike utterances against
Great Britain have had healthy effect upon
her statesmen and others, for they have
opened their eyes to the fact that the Brit
ish fleet. powerful as IL is, Is not as power
ful as 1t should be In order to meet such
combination as the one Emperor William
IL credited with trying to engineer, and
there is no doubt that considerable strength
ening OF the feet and reorganizing OF the
army will be carried out here In the prompt
est and most effective manner possible The
country now sees clearly that there Is
possibility that, some day or other. there
may be an all-powerful combination against
Great Britain, which may necesState the
greatest struggle in the history of those
Islands; and the people, II seems. are ready
to go down into their pockets in order to
provide funds necessary to arm the nation
to meet such an emergency,
The Sportsman's clubs efforts to induce
the London Athletic club to reconsider it's
determination not to engage in international
sports for the present are not meeting with
much success. The Dunraven incident Is too
fresh in the minds Of most people here, al