The San Francisco call., 1898-04-23
EUROPE'S VIEW
 OF THE WAR Anti Am erican Feeling Runs High on the
 Continent.
British Officer Fears Spain Will BOnbard Our Coast
 Cities.
ointment of Most English Journals Continues Friendly 10 This
 Country.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

LONDON, April 22-Great Britain's sympathy for America is like Spanish lplomacy-off1cially correct. There is scarcely a public man or important newspaper that q, not we~--ly SUD- port the United States. At the same time, in private conversation, there is much criticism of the United States, and indorsement of Spain is "aard Nere is much head shaking over the result of the naval battle, anG the feel ing even finds it's way into print.
 The Daily Graphic to-day printed long letter from naval offio who says both Porto Rico and Havana ought to be able to hold their c
 against an attack unsupported by ships. The United States will be forced to blockade both of these islands. and this, the author of the letter thinks, will occupy that nations entire fleet, thus leaving the Spaniards free to bom- bard the coast of the United States. Again, the letter says Spain is strong enough to defeat either of the .,ockad- ing fleets which thO United States is able to assemble about Cuba and Porto Rico. In conclusion the writer thinks that the ships of the Indiana class are so prodigiously overgunned that they are likely to sink themselves.
 An editorial article in the Chronicle to-day expresses the opinion that the United States fleet was throwing away an excellent strategic opportunity by going to Cuba instead of intercepting the Spanish fleet.
 The Daily Mail, whose proprietor, Alfred Harmsworth, is really a warm sympathiZer with the United States, is doing much to arouse sentiment by the daily publication of articles bearing upon the atrocities perpetrated by Spaniards, accompanied by pictures of the starving reconcentrados, under the heading, Why Amercia Is Interven- inS in Cuba" with the Kipling parody, If Blood Be the Price of Liberty. Lord God, We Have Paid the Bill" At the same time the Daily Mail to-day dis plays a New York dispatch with the headline, Scare in America. New York Merchants Closing Their Shops" The dispatch says that many wealthy New Workers are fleeing, fearing lest the fleet of the United States will be vanquished and the city bombarded.
 Continental Europe Steadfastly re- fuses to believe that the United States is embarking in war for any other ob- ject than conquest. Being prone to judge American motives by standards OCneT than appear lO dCludlt lUelI ON II national policies the continental papers predict with the greatest jealousy that the United States will retain all the Spanish colonies, which it will inevita- bly, capture, and that the United States will then become one of the strongest rivals in the scramble for the few re- maining unoccupied portions of the earth. All opinions and interviews con- tained in the press of continental Eu- rope, read between the lines, convey this view.
 The first effect of the war was felt in Great Britain in the rise in wheat which has been the means of inducing the bakers to discuss an advance in the price of the four pound loaf. Many English farmers are holding under heir sheds wheat, hopeful that the prolonged hostilities may send grain lp to the Franco-Prussian war prices.
 Liverpool and --anchester trade with the West Indies has been knocked on the head by the notification that no more boats wi sail for Cuba and Porto Rico. Two ships which were billed to sail from Liverpool or Saturday have cancelled their departure in anticipation of the blockade of Cuba. Shippers find solace in the prospect that the war will result in ending the strongly diffe-en- tial tariffs in favor of Barcelona. which have been forced in all Spanish colo r,i1