The record-union., 1898-11-13
United States Occupying the Atten-
tion of Europe
To a Greater Extent Than at Any Time
Since Battle of Santiago.

While With the Journalistic
Spokesman in France, Russia
and Germany It Is Quite the
Reverse.
| copyrighted, 1898. by Associated Press.1
! LONDON, Nov. 12.-During the past
week the United States has occupied
/ the attention of Europe to a greater
| extent than at any time since the bat
/ ties at Santiago. The entry of the
American Republic into the arena of
Eastern colonization has attracted
widespread and varied attention, and
never before have the phases and is
/ sues of an American election been SO
| generally and eagerly canvassed and
| so intelligently commented upon The
| supposed Endorsement of the so-callad
! expansion idea by the electors of the
/ United States has commanded a chorus
of approval in Great Britain, while the
/ journalistic spokesmen in France, Rus
sia and Germany exhibit an equal
unanimity of disapproval
The American attitude toward the
Philippine Islands is also certainly well
coined by the British companies en-
gagged in developing the islands. These
| companies, in anticipation of a stable
| honest Government, are already taking
steps to enlarge their enterprises. This
is notably the case with the Manila.
Railway Company, controlled by Eng
| lish capital, which is projecting an ex-
tension of its lines.
While the Spaniards are unquestion-
ably hugging the hope of finding q
| friend and protector in Emperor Will
lam of Germany, the London diplomats
accept his majesty's disclaimers, argu-
ing that the whole trend of British
and German policies is converging,
particularly since the friendly appor-
tionment of spheres of influence in
Africa and that the Emperor, believ-
| ing his interests lie in the Anglo-Amer-
| lean rather than in the Franco Rus
sian camp will not show aSxy DISPOSE
ton to duplicate his President Kruger
telegram
If the Marquis of Salisbury's speech
made clear any fact, it was that Great
Britain does not intend to diminish
her armaments, regardless of the
Cars proposals in that direction. The
energetic prosecution of the work of
putting the British navy on a war foot
ing, after the Fashoda incident is
closed, inspires speculation, some con-
STRUNG it as foreboding war over the
Philippines. and others linking it with
the Chinese problem and presence or
10000 Russians at Port Arthur, who
might, conceivably, be marched to
| Pekin for the protection of Russian
interests. others, however. conclude
that the British Admiralty is utilizing
| fo, which
Parliament. under calmer conditions,
would not authorize the expenditures.
Frances view of the British arna-
ments may be conjectured from the
persistency with which she plays Tou-
Ion against Portsmouth. The Fashoda
incident has unquestionably left bit
fer taste in French mouths, which the
condescendingly soothing tone of the
English papers, which have been ex-
pressing themselves as in dealing with
fractious children has only served to
intensity. The French statesmen and
the newspaper offices of France bewafl
the whole affair and say the nation
has suffered a great humiliation. They
also hint vaguely at a future revenge.
M. Robert de Caix of the African Com
/ mittee urges his countrymen not to
sulk but to initiate Great Britain's be-
havior under a similar rebuff in the
| Venezuelan affair. He adds that
France has given the world in the ex-
| hibition of 1900 the strongest hostage
| that she will not be overhasty in ac-
| cepting war in the near future.
Though a majority of Eng1ishmen be-
| lieye that only the oversha adoWing In
| terest of the Dreyfus case saved the
| Government of France from being fore
ed by popular alarm to maintain Major
Marchand at any cost, the Court OF
| Cessation. which has the revision of
| the case in hand, is preserving the
| most dense secrecy. But the interro-
cations of M. Cavaignac and Generals
Mercier and Billot, consuming the en-
tire week, indicates that the court is
doing much more than making a super
fetal review of the evidence
In the meantime the many-sided con-
troversy RACES in the Paris papers as
hotly as ever, and the French Minister
of Foreign Affairs, NJ del Casse, has
felt that proprieties compelled him to
convey to the German ambassador,
Count Won MISUNDERSTANDING, the
Governments regret at the fact that
one sheet dragged his daughters name
into the discussion. One of the multi
tude of reports afloat credits the court
with the determination to request the
appearance before it of Colonel
Schwarzkopen and Colonel Panizzardi,
respectively the German and Italian
military attaches, who have been ac-
cused of dealings with Dreyfus, and
another report has 1t that the prisoner.
beyond any doubt, has been brought
back to Paris to confront the officers
who claim to have received his con-
fession
On the other hand, for reasons which
are incomprehensible to foreigners. a
large faction of the public have been
led to shift their suspicious. as to the
real culprit. from the shoulders of
Count Esterhazy to the late Lieutenant
Colonel Henry, who is supposed to have
committed suicide.
The newspaper men who have been
accompanying Emperor William on his
tour Of the Holy Land say that between
that monarch's marvellous activity and
| the attentions of the Turkish officials.
who regard the scribes as suspicious
characters. they have been suffering a
veritable martyrdom. One of them
writes that he has been accustomed to
follow hounds afoot, and has shared