The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19
WILL WAR DOGS BE LoOSED?
ENGLAND'S PREPARATIONS INDI-
CATE A RUPTURE OF PEACE.

Unusual Forces SIassed on the In
dian FrOntier-Russia Thought to
BE Behind u Project for Wharf.-The
Distress of ireland Exaggerated.
Will Accept no Aid From England.
Cuban Affairs Through English
Glasses.
Copyright. 1897, by the Associated Press.
London, Sept. 1S.-The fact that no less
than ten batteries of horse and field ar
tillery have been ordered to embark for
India during the months of September
and October, is much commented upon in
military circles.
Under ordinary circumstances, the four
batteries now in India would have been
relieved this month. But these batteries
have been ordered to remain in India,
and, therefore, there will shortly be on
the frontier fourteen batteries of artil-
lery, full complement for an army corps.
As the British force now assembled on the
frontier is OF ample strength to wipe out
all visible resistance, the only conclusion
that can be reached in relation to the
dispatch of reinforcements of artillery is
that the authorities are possessed of in
formation of a serious character.
The intimation conveyed by the war Of
flee on Monday last, to the London com
mercial agent of the Ameer of Afghanis-
TAM that no war material or machinery
for the manufacture thereof, will be al
lowed to cross the frontier during the
present crisis, indicates that the British
government has by no means entire con-
fidence in the ameer's fidelity, and it is
hinted the government has learned that
while protesting friendliness to Great Bri-
tai, the ameer has been secretly preparing
for war. Well informed circles are also
discussing the story of secret correspon-
dence between Russia and Afghanistan,
which is said to have fallen into the hands
of the British officials, and it is further
intimated that a widespread plot embrac-
ing the Beluchis, and Others has been dis
covered.
The truth, or otherwise, of these stories
| will develop hereafter, but, the fact re-
| mains that the large increase in the
strength of the British artillery in India
cannot be intended for use against the
| Afrdis.
The extent of the distress threatening
| ireland seems to depend largely as to
! through which party's eyes it is viewed.
| The council of the national federation has
| decided that the country is on the brink
| of a widespread calamity, and calls upon
| Messrs. Dillon and Harrington to convoke
a meeting of the Irish members of parlia-
| ment for the purpose of requisitioning Mr..
| Balfour, the government leader in the
| commons, to call an autumn session Of
| ri m and
| to pass a bill reducing rents in ireland
| in proportion to the loss incurred by the
tenants owing to the wholesale destruc-
| tion of their crops.
On the other hand, the Dublin Express
| says the cry of famine is only a continu-
alton of the party war-cry, which is raised
| every year the unionists are in office, and
adds: Judging from the past, we may
hope that much of the crops doomed to
| destruction by the prophets of evil will be
| rescued and that the general yield will
be much larger than expected"
| The Daily Independent regards that sug-
gestion that the Duchess of York VII
shortly appeal for funds in behalf of the
| Irish, who are threatened with famine
| as being an insult, and says: EFF the coun-
| try was ten times as badly off as it is
| likely to be, it would resent any chari.-
able appeal to the English"
Figures furnished in the report of the
| inspector in inebriates retreats, show that
| the effect of legislative intervention TO re-
| form drunllards is still experimental and
wholly inadequate.
The report says: "Immoderate drinking
| though frightfully common among the in
| dustral classes, is still more prevalent
among the upper ten. II is also certain
that among women of all classes drunken
ness is increasing rapidly"
! Lord Roseoerry, the former liberal pre-
mier. is preparing to re-enter public, life
The Ligue Ornithophile Franchise is or
| ganizing an international congress for the
! preservation of insectivorous birds. The
congress will open its session in AK or
Nov. Q. 1t is proposed to demonstrate
that international agriculture would b5
wise to secure the absolute prohibition by
! law of the destruction of these birds, anG
| that severe penalties should be imposed
upon those who kill or capture bird:
alighting in the course Of their migra
tions.
The Speaker says it regards the capture
of Victoria de las Tunas by the Cubar
| insurgents as being a salutary lesson
taking the ground that it gives Spain q
shock which, it is hoped will check hel
in her drift towards bankruptcy and civi
war"
While not expressing sympathy witt
the motives, the speaker adds: "Tht
United States can find excellent reasons
to intervene whenever she likes"
The Speaker advises Spain to recall
| Capt. Gen. Weyler, and to arrange term.
with the Cubans. through the intermediary
of the United States, expressing the opin
ion that otherwise Spain may have great
congress meets.