The sun., 1900-03-19
TOHAVE No WAR WITH FRANCE
British Panic MOngers Have
Been Stopped by a French
mans Words.
TO LEAVE ENGLAND ALONE
The Next European Trouble 10 likely
to be i'm the Balkans---Gcr-
many's Strange Actions
and Other Matters
of N ews.
TO LEAVE ENGLAND ALONE


mentary upon certain side of the Brit
ish character which has lately been much
in evidence Several papers of fair
standing have seriously been putting for
ward the probability of war with France,
and their sensations have been gulped
down eagerly by II small section of the
| British public, though well informed pco-
| pie were only amused. France, however,
was not the only nation which, it was as
! serted, meditated an immediate invasion
| of England. Russia, Germany and Aus
| tria, according to the fancy of the manu-
facturers of panics, had designs TO take
| advantage of Great Britain's trouble i'll
| South Africa. With the cries for home
| defense in the ascendant Great Britain
might have duplicated the scenes when
the island awaited the prospective inva-
| sion of Napoleon.
Downed the BoEy.
But NJ. Delcasse, the French foreign
minister, spoke, and the hogy of Euro
pean hostility and interference vanished.
The hand of the Frenchman restored
calm to Great Britain. Without the bias
| of friendship he disclosed the common
sense with which France and the other
European powers We're governing their
relations toward Great Britain and bore
w
in these dispatches. O.. that no power
had the slightest intention of going to
war with Great Britain ut present and
that no power was anxious to intervene
in behalf Of the Beers.
The pacific aspect which European
matters assume is far more likely TO ht
disturbed by trouble i'll the Balkans thar
by the South African war or anything II
which Great Britain is chiefly concerned
though even the Balkan difficulty is mos
unlikely to result in any continental war
This latest trouble consists in the ap
parent determination of Prince Fcrdi
nand to declare himself king Of Bulgari;
and renounce Turkeys suzerainty. Ill
would scarcely contemplate this withou
the backing of Russia, whence com
Prince Fcrtlinand's generals, guns an
his national loan. As The Spcctato
points ont, for the sultan to refuse abso
lutely the request of Prince Ferdinand
supported by Russia and not negative
o by the triple alliance, would be YER
serious event indeed, land it may occl
sooner than we. who are looking soutl
ward instead of eastward, are ready
suppose"
However, ther1 is no reason to suppos
ii will not all blow over, as did the fri
ton between Great Britain and Germi
q ny over the seizures of the latter's shiI
in South African waters. To what G!
tent that friction went was only know
last week, when blue book giving IL
correspondence of the governments col
cerned was published The tart demant
Of the German ambassador and l4oi
Salisbnry's astonishcd comments at b
ing thus addressed by a nation who
MIR. Chamberlain but a few weeks pr
vious had lovingly included in the
1r called "new dreibund" came as \ rev
laton. Had not the matter been COZ
plctely settled. thanks to Lord Sail
bury's giving way, and had not Gre
Britain been so completely cngrosscd
the progress Of her arms in South Afri
it would have raised Il storm Of indiSn
tion against Germany 30 times great
than did Emperor Williams celebrate
cable message to President Kruger aft
the Jameson raid.
Gerlnany's Queer Policy.