The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-11-05
ENGLAND IS STILL
PREPARING FOR WAR
Crisis Is Said 70 Be Approaching
in London This After
noon.
WAL PREPARATIONS PUSHED
BattIeships and Cruisers Are Taking
n Val PREPARATIONS PUSHED
BattIeships and Cruisers Are Taking
on Full Crews and Troops
Being Modified.
GUSTAV SPY IS ARRESTED
Uncovered at the Fort Near Har.
wich Trying 10 secure Infor.
nation From u
Sentry.

London, Nov. 2.-There was an I'M
cxpectedly gloomy feeling this morn
ing on h stock exchange and Paris
bourse. Both markets are being in.
fuenced, it is inferred, from the ag-
gressive tone of some of the French
papers Besides this something extra.
ordinary seems to have happened and
1t looks as if a crisis was approaching
this afternoon.
British naval preparations r being
pushed with great activity. The Brit
ish emergency squadron is gathering
Mt Sevensport with all possible speed.
Seven battleships and one cruiser have
been thus far designated as "the
squadron" and officers have been re-
called from leave OF absence and sew
eral battleships and a cruiser are at
Portsmouth taking full crews on
board, and other warlike preparations
are being made.
A sensation was caused by the ar
rest this morning of q supposed Rus.
sian spy at the fort near Harwich. He
tried to obtain information from a
sentry regarding the Notifications. 1t
is asserted that the commanding Of
ticers of the London volunteer regi-
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Tor immediate mobilization and that
the artillery corps has been informed
as to the forts on the southern and
eastern coasts to which they have
been allotted.
ThefPall Mall Gazette says: eng
land has been, and even now is, SO
near wal as to give the carried prepar-
atoms too far a test limit OF the pre-
paratory stage. 1t has been arranged
to call out the reserves and militia,
and mobilize the volunteers simultane-
ously, and form large camps at yari-
ous important railroad functions,
where rolling stock and locomotives
can be concentrated"
MObiiiz tium ut Dover.
London, Nov. 2.-Most Of the NOM
ing papers are full of alleged war
pinions despite the fact that the an-
horities are doing their best to dis
courage publication and are even de-
nying statements that have already
appeared.
Yesterday a sudden order was re-
ceived ut Dover for an experimental
mobilization of the defensive forces.
All the heights and forts We're smartiy
occupied in a manner giving full salts
faction. The arsenal at Woolwich is
working unit II o'clock every night,
the government having given large or
ders -fo. gt;,s, scarchlights and other
naval equipment. +
The British channel squadron has
cast anchor of Gibraltar.
The advices from I'aris in the spe-
cial dispatches this morning add little
to what was already known regarding
The situation al Fashoda. 1t is believed
that Captain Baratier is taking only
verbal instructions for Major Mar
chand.
The Daily Mail this morning pub
fishes III news regarding England's
war preparations, explaining that the
| silence is due to a letter from the war
office asking it not to publish "any-
thing which might be useful to a pos
sible enemy"
"We intend to ascertain today" says
the Daily Mail, from the war office
and the admiralty exactly what kind
of news it would be permissible to
publish"
The Daily Mail confirms the reports
of u~nexalnpled activity at the French
dock yards, notably at Toulon, where
the coast forts have been experiment.
ing with melonite shells against an
old gunboat.
The Daily Mail says nm Egyptian
battalion has been dispatched to Fa-
shoda.