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ALL AFRAID
OF JOSEPH
Chamberlain the Bogy
Of Europe.
BAD SCARE IN FRANCE
The Powers Regard the Possibility
of a lingo Premier With
Great Alarm.

LONDON, Oct. II, 2:15 p. Mon today's
election returns the Liberals score two
gains and the Ministerialsts one, making
their respective total of gains 90 and %.
Inc total number of members elected up
to the present is 592, as follows: Ministe-
rialists, 81; Opposition, 221
In RadnorshIre (Wales) f. Edwards q
Liberal, defeated E. Llewellyn. Conserva-
tive.
The Ministerialist gain was in the Tynr
side division of Northumberland where
II Crawfordsmith, Unionist, defeated j.
A. Pease, Liberal, who had represented
the division since 1892, and who was
Liberal whip in the last Parliament.
Sir Charles Dixie easily retained his
seat for the forest of Dean of Gloucester
shire.
AFRAID OF CHAMBERLAIN
NEW YORK, Oct. ia dispatch to the
Times from Paris says: The British gen.
eral election is exciting good deal of
interest and comment in continental Eu-
rope. The opinion is universal that it is
personal triumph for Mr.. Chamberlain,
and that II he becomes predominant in
the British Government an era of aggres-
sion and jingoism will be inaugurated
which will seriously threaten the peace of
Europe.
In France especially are sober men anx-
icrs. 1t is felt that if in future difficult
Africa, etc, the negotiations are in the
hands of Mr.. Chamberlain, war may be
easily provoked, especially as Chamber
lain is likely, as in the case Of the Trans
vaal, to refuse all compromise and to Of
fer to settle on the basis of absolute sur
render by the other party.
After Fashoda, France will never again
back down completely, and with Cham
berlain at the British helm things are
likely to go to extremes.
1t is impossible to describe the dislike
and suspicion with which Chamberlain is
regarded in continental Europe. 1t is not
az exaggeration to say that Great Brit
ain with Mr.. Chamberlain as Premier
would have all Europe against her, hos
tile and watchful. This opinion is ex-
pressed by the most sober and conserva-
+ tive of the papers here, like lie Temps
ard LIE Journal des Debats, and is not
merely that of the Anglophobe extrem-
lists.
The fact that Mr. Chamberlain has new
er categorically challenged inquiry con-
cerning the letters which are alleged to
prove his completely in the Jameson raid,
and that he makes no denial of his con-
nection with firms that have grown rich
on the war, increases the distruSt of Dlm.
Moreover, a good many Transvaalers, ex-
lied by order of the British Government
from Johannesburg and Pretoria, are ar
irving in Europe and the stories they tell
of British brutality and arbitrariness also
add to the flames. Never before, perhaps,
was Great Britain regarded with so much
suspicion as at present.
WHEN PARLIAMENT MAY MEET.
NEW YORK, Oct IA dispatch to the
Tribune from London says:
The opinion is gaining ground that Par
lament will nct assemble for effective
work before the end of January This in
te1val will allow Lord Salisbury leisure
for recasting the Cabinet and deciding va
ricus questions relating to South Africa
A report that Lord Cromer has been
summoned to England is probably well
founded. He has been spoken of in usu-
ally well-informed quarters as the new
ircmber of the Cabinet, and certainly his
inclusion would greatly strengthen the
Government. There are more unlikely
things than that he should be appointet
to succeed Lord Lansdowne at the Wa.
Office.