The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-29
The EMPEROR FLANKED
THE DUAL, ALLIANCE NOW A
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AND FRANCE MAY RECOVER ALsAcE
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| Copyright 1897 BY the Associated Press.)
| London, Aug. os.-Ih political Lon
don at present there is plenty OF talk
about France, India and President Kru-
ger, each contributing a sensation through
the week. while the rise in wheat has
set loose an oratorical food regarding
the agriculture, of England. All four
! topics promise abundant consequences,
both material and political
The accomplislmeht of the Franco
Russian alliance, which some of the con-
servatiye newspapers are INCLINED to
deny, expOstulating thatthe Cars words
could be applied to- any friendly nation, is
thowever, accepted by the majority as
an undoubted fact. ss1g3u> huG33 2
Il This is recognized delri6tlsly in France,
sneerihgly in AUSTRIA uncomfortably in
Germany. and here lin London, they are
slowly awakening 10 the underlying
\ meaning of the alliance as it is! under
stood on the continent. taigui lg8of
j France is delighted for three reasons.
| Reasonably or lunreasOnably the Ali
ance is accepted as foreShadowing the
| iretrocession of Alsace-Lorraine which
1 France holds. Russia would be glad to
assist in, as a snub to Germany. a.ogf
1 Secondly the alliance largely shifts
the control of Europe bacli t., France.
Z The popular opinion of London, which
rejoices at the Alliance as being entire
~ directed against ssPrDa11y. is . we'll
voiced by the Saturday Review, which
! says: The Emperor of Germany has
received a rebuff which he will bitterly
resent. There lis no doubt the formal
alliance of France and Rnssia makes it
henceforth impossible for him TO be that
Larbiter2 of the destinies of Europe which
he aspires to become. The Dual Alli-
ance is at least as powerful as the Triple
Alliance was formerly: 1t is no longer
dream.i. fsti533 L.5y rys% AMI
In France one curious result of 'Presi-
dent Faure's visit to Russia has been
the creation Of Prince rLonis1 Napoleon
as a new pretender.t The French news
papers are all convinced that there was
+ d political motive in his refusal to ac-
cept the Legion of Honor decoration
att the hands of President Faure, al
| though the President distinctly stated
that his refusal was based on the fact
THAT he had received from Napoleon III,
while still in his cradle, the, grand cor
don of that order, -a, ~, .,.t ..
| The Indian, troubles, have LET loose,
| flood of criticism which blames every
! body connected with, the government.
Sir Ellis Ashmead- Bartlett, in a virulent
| letter just published, declares that spirit
! of fanatieism has been aroused which
Twill, be most difficult to quell, adding:
Every gallant life now lost in the on
tslaught of the ,NorthweS tern fanatics is
"a victim Of the reckless yillifcatiOn and
persecution Of Turkey, which has been
| the British policy since '1893,' and which
has ruined the Armenians, prostrated the
/ Greeks, reyolutionized Crete, lowered
British, prestige and alienated the Mus
sulmans in India. "'' 50 .'"I, ''H
q, Prof. Arminius Yambery, the we'll
known authority on all Of the Oriental
questions, partly comedies with this view
+ OF the situation, though disciaiming. that
the Sultan has had any particular hand
in the present troubles which are Ban
| ISlanlic. tdy" ,t3fiJG,af 21lil,lf
The Saturday Review, while exculpat-
ing the Sultan, declares that Lord Ro-
berts, OF Kandahr, is believed by many
of the best informed people|to be at
the bottom of the affair, which is class
ed as a legacy of the, .Landsd0wn-
Roberts administration, whose motto
was military aggression erair
/ In spite of constant denial, it is little
1 doubted in official circles that the Ameer
of Afghanistan has had hand in the
present troubles, and that his attitude
| toward Great Britain is unfriendly. 1t
| has BEEN known for a month past that
the Ameer has been ordering enormous
quantities of arms and ammunition
from agents in England, and this so at
/ tracted notice of late that his orders
were not executed. t'1 9Af
In the meanwhile no news Is permitted
to leak out of Cabul, the capitol of
Afghanistan. Every mail is closely
scrntinized, and all suspected letters are
opened ''.t' ..'t" "h''7 afaiI9G
Sir Saltarpyne, the Ameer's English
right-hand man, has been expected in
England ON his annual visit for weeks
past, but no news has been received re-
garding his movements and it is quite
possible that he is detained at Cabul by
the Ameer. t eit1 13a1 ot .ysu
President Kruger's sensational def
ance OF Great Britain is accepted cold
ly by the British proteetorates from the
Foreign Office to the Colonial Office
is a reply.
Jos. Chamberlain, Secretary of State
for the Colonies, has absolutely affirmed
the suzerainty of Great Britain over
the Transvaal, and is determined to as
sert it in no uncertain fashion.