Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-11-02
ALL EUROPE ALARMED.
Something Extraordinary Appar-
emily Has Happened.
APPROACHING CRISIS.
Great Britain Continues Her Exten-
sivc Naval and Military
Preparations.

London, Oct. 31.-There was an uneX-
pectedly gloomy feeling this morning on
the stock exchange and Paris bourse,
both these markets being influenced, it is
inferred, from the aggressive tone of
some of the French papers. Besides this,
something extraordinary seems to have
happened and it looks as if a crisis were
approaching.
The British naval preparations are be-
ing pushed with great activity. The Brit
ISL emergency squadron is gathering at
Davenport with all possible speed. Seven
battleships and one cruiser nave been
thus far designated to join this squadron.
OhcerS and sailors have been hurriedly
recalled from leave of absence. several
battleshlps and cruisers at Portsmouth
are taking their ull crews on board and
other warlike preparations are being
made. a number of signal men, now on
duty with the British channel squadron,
which arrived at Gibraltar this morning,
nave been ordered home for service, it is
presumed, ON board the auxiliary cruisers,
II the latter should be required for active
service.
A sensation has been caused by the ar
rest this morning of a supposed Russian
spy at a fort near Harwich. The man
had previously been under surveillance
ana went to q redOubt where he tried to
obtain some information from a sentry re-
SNS ~ L was IOlII
~ arrested and inquiries are being made
regarding his antecedents.
1t was also asserted today that the COM
handing officers of the London volunteers
regiments had received orders to prepare
for immediate mobilization, and it was as
serted that the different artillery corps
have been Informed as to the forts on the
Southern and Eastern coats to which they
have been allotted.
The Pail Mall Gazette this afternoon
says: England has been, and even now
Is, SO near war that the government has
earned its preparations to the farthest
limit OF the preparatory stage. 1t has
been arranged to call out the reserves and
militia and to mobilize the volunteers 81
simultaneously and to form large camps at
various important railroad functions,
where rolling stock and locomotives will
be concentrated"
Hope for Settlement.
Paris, Oct. 31.-The Eclair today says
it learns on reliable authority that the
Fashoda question will be settled favOra-
bly, to Great Britain by the recall Of
Maj. Marchand. France, the paper adds.
yields ell, reserving only the question Of
the right to the Bahr-elGhazal district,
which she does not consider as belonging
to Egypt.
Continuing, the Eclair remarks: IN.
Delcasse, however, has now decided to
raise the whole Egyptian question. which
should have been done from the first, and
thus avoiding the humiliation of yielding
to the British ultimatum. When the
question is thus enlarged, France will not
be alone in its discussion with the Mar
quis Of Salisbury. Egypt interests al
the powers.
Russia has promised NJ. Delcasse its
most effective assistance and, besides Ger
many has the biggest interest, in view of
her East African possessions and trade in
the far East, that the Suez canal should
not become exclusively British and is dis
posed to support Franco-Russian argu-
ments for a definite statement of the
Egyptian question:"