The evening times., 1898-05-17
RUSSIA INTERESTED.
J, saiA 10 he OArsAed at Joseph Chan-
bef3iln,s speech.

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SaiA % BE O4enAed at Joseph Chan.
befsiiH,s speech.
New Yorks,1fay 1.-THE World prints
the following copyright cablegram from
\ London: ,.os odi at, '5
The Russian ambassador has been d.
rected to demand from Lord Salisbury.
it Is reported ttRpight. an explanation of
! Mr.. acknowledgements that Russia is
4 ineligible for an alliance because of her
I perfidy- z'ff2s'
! The prevailing opinion now is that Mr..
Chamberlain's speech. in which ne ad-
| vocated an Anglo-saxon alliance, was a
grievous indiscretion.
1t has excited jealousies and resent
ment throughout Europe without prom
ising to attain any compensatory adyan-
tage,,
His direct calling the Car "the devii''
| iS. sure. II Is believed. to give undying
offense In st. Petersburg.
In the city of London (the financial dis
| tricp. today great depression prevailed.
Rumors were flying about that the gov
ernment proposes to Offer a large issue of
exchequer bills to form a war chest.
further rise In the bank rate was freely
predicted
Mr.. Chamberlain's main and immediate
| object is known to be to force France to
! evacuate Broussa. West Africa. even at
the risk of war.
II has leaked out that in his private
4 talk to bankers last Thursday Lord Sails
bury said that the West African question
| Is the most serious matter the cabinet
has now to deal with. and that its salts
factory solution seems well nigh impossi-
| BILE.
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prime minister gives gravity to Mr..
Chamberlains speech, which II otherwise
/ might have lacked because of the univer-
sal suspicion that he was playing simply
for his own hand
A further element of seriousness Is i'm
| parted to the situation by the remark of
the Duke OF Cambridge at the volunteer
| banquet on Friday night that France has
| been given month to clear out of Brou-
| sa the disputed district in West Africa.
| The Duke. today denies having said this.
| but volunteer officers present declare that
| his words were taken down at the time
i and passed around the table to all the
guests on a slip of paper marked con-
| fidential."
| A variety of circumstances in short,
| tend TO cause anxiety here concerning the
| outlook. which now is affected by the in
| splring statement from French agencies
| that the West African negotiations are
| progressing satisfactory.
Everything seems to prove the truth of
the words of an editorial published
broadcast here that Mr.. Chamberlain
! proposition of an Anglo-American alliance
! springs from desire to drag the United
| States into a war over miasmatic swamp
| in West Africa. Among the hnited sec
| tion of politicians in Parliament favora-
| BILE TO such alliance the idea of Mr..
| Chanberiain's declaration is treated as
| absurdly in advance of events. while the
| bulk of the members of Parliament. who
| would either be Indifferent or hostile 10
| it, are affronted that a minister should
| hawk offers of British alliance in the
| market place.
| Mr.. Chamberlain himself Is delighted
| over the sensation he has created. though
| his jubilation obviously is not shared by
| his colleagues. Several members of Par
| Lament pressed him privately tonight for
| more explicit statement concerning the
| danger ahead. He merely replied oracu
! larly
Events will justify
| In the House of Commons this evening
, during a question as TO the date for dis
| cussing the foreign Office .Sill Sir William
! Harcourt the liberal leader, suggested
| that the country desires to discuss the
| new Birmingham foreign policy The
! remark aroused tremendous cheering,
mingled with ministerial ''ohs,"
| Michael Davitt read an extract from
| Mr.. Chamberlain's speech depreciatory of
the value of Russian promises and askeS
the colonial secretary II he thought such
| language and sentiment consistent with
the friendly relations between the two
countries. The speaker refused 10 allow
the question to be put
The liberal leaders intend to have a de-
bate on his speech at the earliest pos
sibe moment which cannot now be ui,-
til Friday after the Whitsuntide recess.
The drift of opinion regarding Anglo
American alliance may be gathered from
articles in the principal papers except
the Mail. which has championed none but
lost causes during its short existence. No
newspaper has received the suggestion
with enthusiasm
The News fears that whatever chance
there is of realizing of an alliance, '.gush
and jingoism'' are likely TO destroy Mr. |
Chamberlain. 1t says: |
He was guilty of jingoism in figuring |
Angio-American alliance as an engine |
of aggressive and threatening action |
The Globe observes:
1--WE would be glad to live in the likeli- |
hood of permanent union of all the Eng |
disappearing nations. but in the case of !.
the United States their foreign policy |
undergoes such quick and violent changes |
that friend today becomes an enemy to 4
morrow. As long a 5 our naval supremacy
endures we have no need for help on tn. /
ocean while the United States could give
no help on land 4
The Star strongly pro-American. says. 4
Let us not fall into the error of fore
ing sentiment in dollhouse of selfish |
ness. That is Mr.. Chamberlain's mistake.
In this business of an Anglo-American al
lance pushfulness is likely to do more
harm than good"
The ST. James Gazette remarks:
1.-THE good people who fancy that all is /
now completed but signing a formal
treaty of offense and defense are going |
too fast and are likely to do only mis- |
chief The United States has yet to
realize it's own isolation and actual |
danger but for British support in Eu-
rope
- The gush referred to, by the News Is
supplied by editorials from certain New |
York papers which may have been easily
drawn out by Mr.. Chamberlain's inter- |
ested effusiveness-
Put Spanish Sailors Ashore.
(From the Chicago .News)