Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-02
LONDON LETTER
Much Talk Of Anglo Saxon
TeutOIl Alliance.
MOST BITTER FEELING
Stirred up by Comments in the French
Press--Many Homes in England
Are in Mourning Over Lost Ones
III South Africa.

London. Dec. 2.-(Copyrighted. 1899, BY
the Associated Press)-The u%tterances oil
cabinet ministers and others on the sub
| ject of the suggested Anglo-Saxon-Teu-
tonic alliance have, d~etracted public at
tention to some degree from the list OF
casualties that marks British progress in
South Africa. But the glowing insinua-
tions of triunphs of British diplomacy
cannot stem the growing tide of private
sorrow that manifests itself with the
ever-increasing prevalence of crepe and
the absence, through mourning, of many
prominent families from social festivities.
AS Ambassador Choate said at the
THANKSGIVING banquet yesterday, there Is
scarcely an English family of his ac-
quaintance without relatives already
either killed or wounded in the war.
Yet the press has taken kindly to this
new topic. though the more conservative
papers, such as the Times, point out that
a sympathetic alliance with the United
States is an easy matter compared with
one with Germany, on account of diff
ference in race and language. While it is
not actually SO stated, the palpable de-
duction has evidently occurred to the
writers on this topic that the United
States is far more fitted, from racial and
oll!eI colllltloilS, 10 any leTSelI WIN Ger
many than is Great Britain, the Develop
ment of which, judging from popular
opinion, would be decidedly unsatisfac-
tory to Great Britain at present, unless
the managed in some way to become a
party to the new dreibund.
The bitter controversy between the
British and French press is not without
its amusing features. All manner of
Frenchmen n French women. resident
in England. from ladies maids to authors
and abbess, have kept the correspondence
columns of the English papers full of dis
avoWals of the attacks on the queen
which have marked some of the Paris
papers, while the French papers them
selves take little pains to conceal their
satisfaction over the irritation they have
created, though the better class of peo-
discountenance the yulgarity of thu
criticism.
The English papers have violently as
sailed every anti-Dreyfusard in France,
but they cannot conceive the justice for
tit-for-tat argument when the queens
personality is involved. A duel just
fought in Paris between NJ. Jules Muret,
of the Figaro, and NJ. Niau. of the Libre
Parole, sprang partly out of the contro-
Nersy. NJ. Huret has been in England
sending over pro-English articles to his
paper and was denounced by NJ. Eiau,
who accepted a challenge and paid for his
with a wound in the arm Which
has paralyZed two of his fingers.
Charles DAM, the cyciist, whose fame
to the present has been based on his
defeating Arthur Zimmerman at Flor
ence, has been engaged as the leading
tenor of the Lyric theater. Milan.
Two Irish magistrates We're deprived
this week by Lord Ashbourne, the lord
chancellor of Ireland, of their offices. on
account of anti British comments on the
Boer war. The proceeding is most un-
usual. especially as one of the ~delinquents
was a nobleman. Lord Emily. who, speak
ing to some laborers at Limerick, inferred
that Great Britain might have another
Ladysmith in Ireland. Lord A~shbournp
asked for an explanation but Lord Emily
haughtily refused, Whereupon he was re-
moved. Lord Emily is prominent in Ire
land. both socially and politically. and
an ardent home ruler. The only other
instance on record is when Mr.. Gladstone.
years ago, deprived Lord Rossmore of q
legacy for public utterances.
Lord Kitchener has decided to open the
Wady Halfa-I>hartoum railroad Dee. 4
With q weekly service of trains. Tickets
are now being issued to the second cata-
being erected.
The hearing of the Investigation of the
concern with which the lord MAYOR is
mixed UP with has SO far brought out
nothing interesting. A promoter testified
that checks We're sent to various financial