Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-03-01
AROUSED
Are Some Of the En-
rOpean Powers
ny THE LATE urrERANcEs OF Mn.
GOscHEN As TO ENGLAND's
ATTITUDE.
SPAIN Is INDIGNANT
ny THE SENTIMENTS ExpREssIsD
IN THE SENATE.
Reported From Deriin That mn Al
lance DO strike u England
Is Dcipg Formed.
SPAIN is INDIGNANT
ny THE SENTIMENTS EXPRESSED
IN THE SENATE.

London. Feb. e.-(CopyriGhted, 1896
by the Associated Pressl--The FIRST
lord OF the admiralty, MIR, George j,
Press at the time. made an Interest,"
Ing speech at Lewea ON wednesday
night last. during the course OF which
he said;
without botraying secrets | may
snY that u very distinguished German
statesman, not Prince bismarck has
been convinced for years that Enuland
could not be moved TO war by anything
short or an attack on her central in
terests In this country. That was n
very dangerous fallncy which has now
probably been dislndged"
MIR, Goschon also remarked, THE
now sysiem Of controlling aud barter
Ing Tor alliances has displaced the old
systOm Of a balance OF power between
European nations. England 10 not
clever NJ this gnmo. and las held
nloof, although her alliance In courted
hy several groups Of pnwora.'
These uttcruncca have aroused n
great donl of friction IN Austria ana
Italy, Their newspapers assumed thnt
he alluded 10 the prelhund whom ref
orencc was made TO groups Of pow
ers" counting Great britain. aud II
~ RtrcnunuHiy douicd nt Vienna that
Great nrltuin has ever been collected
to Join the nrcibund
The Cuban resolution Of tho United
S,ntes senate has had mixed reccp-
tion here There has boon comfortable
suid In favor of Cuban home rule. al
though many dlstingulHhcd person.
ages and influential organs are afraid
to advocate Il FOR fear 90 rc-Hwakrn-
Ing tho apparently Flumhcring ngitnt-
ors Of ireland.
The newspapers Of MUdrid prc get
Ia.. a a.. -
United states senate and the evening
uapors Of that city uNpregg Themselves
In ovon more violent lnnElngp thnn
their morning contemporaries They
soy apart from the resolution the
language used duriHg the dchntr In the
senate made painful Impression.
II is avcrrod that the allegations Of
the senators are wholly false.
on the other band, II IN maintained
ttnt the spnniards have rApcricd all
prisoners ana to call them huThnrlnns
" REGARDED M mn Inprpvoked and un.
iustiunhlc insult.
The rppnrta from berlin are IN hn
believed Emperor William Is actively
enpn rcd In irving to form n new Drci-
bund consisting OF Russia, France
nud Germany aud II w Unlimited TINT
he would not be opposed 10 q pruuosl-
tlon TO unite the fleets OF the three
countries I'm an attack upon Great Brit
hope. fhould lend 10 the dlsmomber-
mcnt of the empire
Tho fact remains, however that the
recent war-llke utternnces against
Great Britain have had a healthy Of
feet upon her sthtesmcn and Othcrp.
for they have opened their eyes TO the
fact that the British floet, powerful rs
II is, Is not M powerful M It should
be IN order 10 meet such combIna-
tion ns the one Emperor william IL
credited with trying 10 engineer, md
there II no doubt that considerable
atrengtf ening Of the fleet ana rcorgani-
cation or the army will be carried out
here In the nrompicat and most ef-
fectlve manner noagihle. The country
now secs clearly that there Ia a pos
sibility TINT some day or other there
may be nm all powerful combination
ngnlnst Great Brli9ln which mny
ncoesfltato the greatest struggle In the
history OF those islands ana the pco-
pie. II seems, nre ready to go down Into
their pockets In order 10 provide funds
necessary to army the nation TO meet
such an emergency.