Arizona republican., 1898-05-03
AS VIEWED IN LONDON
English Naval Experts Advise a Wait
 ing Campaign Against Spain.

New York, May 2.-The Tribune's s London correspondent cables as fol- lows: The outbreak Of war finds every London journal eager for the fray and impatient to have hcstilities begin in earnest. Naval and military experts, who have no interest in spec ial editions. are more cautious in their judgments. They do noc hesitate to assert that masterly inactivity will be the true policy for the Americans at the outset. This judgment is grounded upon the advantage which the American fleet will have in re- spect to coal supply. They contend that the Spanish fleet will soon ex- haust it's stock of coal in Cuba and Porto Rico, and will be unable to re- plenish it. Hence they consider any attempt on the part Of the American government to bring on naval opera tions prematurely is all-advised and unscientific. For similar reasons they condemn the military occupation of Cuba by the Americans until their command of the sea is undisputed and the danger of yellow fever has passed with the hot weather. These views are not shared by the fighting editors here, who have described already the best plan of campaign, and will be critical if their arrangements for speedy warfare are upset.
 Talk about an Anglo-Saxon alliance has already died out; there has never been any desire on the part of either government for a coalition of this kind, which would anly tend to em- barrass both England and America and involve European complications. The rigorous enforcement of neutrality obligations is the only favor which the United States needs from England, and that is matter of justice to Spain as well. The British regulations gov erning the supplying of coal to bel ligerents will be impartially enforced, but from the nature of the case will tend to cripple Spain and shorten the war. Any unfair discrimination against Spain would inevitably be re- sented by France and Germany. It may be stated with the utmost conf dence that the relations between the foreign office and the state depai tment are everything that Americans can desire, and that good feeling will be diminished only if there be undue zeal on either side for a formal alli- ance. The adherence of the United States to the declaration of Paris re- specting privateering and the security of neutral goods is regarded by diplo- matists as disarming anti-American feeling on the continent. Every Eng fish journal comments it as an act of high civilization, tending to diminish the commercial disturbance caused by war.
 Similar expressions of approval are already heard everywhere on the con- tlnent. Spain is forced to choose be- tween relinquishing privateering and antagonizing maritime Europe by de | clining to accept the declaration, with l its four rules. This choice is most embarrassing, because the Spanish government has evidently been bent upon issuing letters of marque and li- | censlng war on private property at sea. The state department, by con- polling her to accept the declaration of Paris or give offence to Europe, has achieved a triumph of diplomacy with hundred small points like that SCOT ed at Minister Woodfords expense in preventing the delivery of the ulti- matum.