The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-16
SPAIN IS NOT PLEASED
The Newspapers Discuss Cham
berlain's Speech Angrily.
A GREAT WAR IN EUROPE
The Anglo American Alliance Would Be
the Beginning of q Confiagration
That Would Envelop the
Whole World.
Copyright lsss by Associated Press.

Copyright isss by Associated Press.
Madrid. May 15. noon.-Spain is not
pleased with the utterance on the sub
iect of the success of the possibilities of
an alliance between the United States
and Great Britain. The Spanish am
bassador at London, Count Rascon, tel
egraphed an extract of the recent
speech of Joseph Chamberlain. the
British secretary of state for the col
onies. at Birmingham on Friday even
ing last. to Senor Gullon, the minister
for foreign affairs. VINO Immediately
conferred on the subject with the
PREMIER Senior Sagasta, with the re-
suit that the latter requested the min
lister of foreign affairs for more de-
tailed account of MIR. Chamberiain's
remarks. Consequently the foreign
minister cabled TO Count Rascon for
fuller report of the speech. This. IL Is
understood. has been received. and the
Spanish ministers were to discuss II at
their meeting to-day.
Spain. it is said upon good authority.
will draw the attention of the powers
to the transcendency of the suggested
Anglo American alliance with respect
to European interests.
The Spanish newspapers and the pol
iticians here of all classes discuss Mr..
Chamberlain's speech most angrily.
They consider IL to be a sequel To the
Marquis of Salisbury's warnings to
Spain. whose domnions, II seems, are
to he absorbed by strong enemies.
The Liberal. referring to the suggest
ed Anglo-Saxon alliance, says: IF
any alliance, defensive and offensive, Is
signed. The same day the general con-
lagration will burst out which has
been So long suppressed by the powers.
An Anglo American union viii he raced
by Russia and Germany. with their al
lies. and our western ana eastern pos
sessions now on fire. will be an insig-
nificant episode compared with the con-
Migration in India. South Africa and
China. If the Anglo o-American alliance
succeeds, Europe, which has hereto
fore been indifferent to our case, viii
take our part, not to favor, but 10 de-
fend her own preponderance in the
world"
The impartial contrasts the speech OF
MIR. Chamberlain with the reported ac-
tion of the crew of the French cruiser
Admiral Rigault de Genouilly In cheer
ing for Spain after the bombardment OF
San Juan de Porto Rico. which was
witnessed by that vessel. as being In
dicative of a coming great war in Eu-
rope against the Anglo-Saxons.
Continuing. the lmparcial points out
that "AS spain single ndnueu f1dhes
headway against the United States. she
would prove valuable factor in the
combination against the Anglo-Sax-
ons."
n. m.-The Imparcial to-day pub
| fishes dispatch from Havana. giving
another extraordinary Spanish version
| of "A war episode 1t says:
"On Friday the gunboats Conde de
| Venadito and Nueva Espana steamed
out of the harbor and attacked the
American squadron of two cruisers and
| five auxiliary cruisers. which were out
side. The Spanish vessels fired two
! shots and the Americans eight. later
apparently retreating damaged. Three
| crowded tugs followed the gunboats.
| the people on board cheering them"
II would seem possible that the facts
upon which the lmparciars dispatch
/ are based are To be found in the dis
/ patch from the associated press dis
patch boat Kate Spencer filed at Key
/ West to-day and sent out early
this morning. Two Spanish ships
did steam out of Havana harbor