The age-herald., 1900-03-19
THERE WILL BE NO
 WAR WITH FRANCE
Mouth of Panic-Mongers Sud- denly Stopped by Frenchman
GREAT BRITAIN IS PLEASED
Kipling's Lack of Common Sense in The Sin of Witchcraft" the Dis appointment ofthe Week
 in London

London, March 1.-The mouths of the panic -mongers have been stopped and by Frenchman It is curious commentary upon certain side of the British character which has lately been much in evidence Several papers of fair standing have serl- ously been putting forward the probability of war with France, and their sensations have been gulped down eagerly by a small section of the British public, though well informed people are only amused. France however was not the only nation which it was asserted meditated an immediate in- vasion of England. Russia Germany and Austria, according to the panic-mongers, had designs to take advantage of Great Britain's trouble in South Africa. With the cries for home defence in the ascendant, Great Britain might hive duplicated the scenes when the island awaited the pros pected invasion of Napoleon. But M Del casse, the French foreign minister, spoke, and the bogey of European hostility and in- terference vanished. The hand of the Frenchman restored calm to Great Britain. Without the bias of friendship he dis closed the common sense with which France and the other European powers were governing their relations toward Great Britain, and bore home we'll that which has been frequently set forth in these dispatches, 1. e., that no power had the slightest intention of going to war with Great Britain at present, and no power was anxious to intervene in behalf of the Boers. The pacific aspect which European matters assume is far more like ly to be disturbed by trouble in the Balkans than by the South African war or anything in which Great Britain is chiefly concerned, though even the Balkan difficulty is most unlikely to result in continental war.
 Prince Ferdinand's Determination
 This latest trouble consisted in the ap- parent determination of Prince Ferdinand to declare himself king of Bulgaria and re- nounce Turkish suzerainty. He would scarcely contemplate this without the back ing of Russia, whence come Prince Ferdi- rlands generals and guns, and this week his national loan. As the Spectator points out for the sultan to refuse absolutely the request of Prince Ferdinand, supported by Russia and not negatived by the triple al- liance, would be very serious event in deed, land it may occur sooner than we, who are all looking south ward, instead of eastward, are ready to suppose" How ever, there is no reason to suppose 1t will not an blow over, as did the friction be- tween Great Britain and Germany over the seizures of the latters ships in South Afri- can waters To what extent that friction went was only known this week, when blue book giving the correspondence of the governments concerned was published. The tart demands of the German ambas- sador and Lord Salisloury's astonished comments at being thus addressed by nation whom Mr. Chamberlain but a few weeks previous had lovingly included in the so-called ''new driebund" came as a revelation Had not the matter been com petely settled, thanks to Lord SaMsburys giving away, and had not Great Britain oeen so completely engrossed by the prog ress of her arms in South Africa, it would have had a storm of Indignation against Germany fifty times greater than did Elm peror Williams celebrated cable message to President Kruger after the Jameson raid
 The correspondence itself shows no evi- dence of reconciliation, but it is learned this has been effected and also that rather curious circumstances attended the nego- tiations. Whenever the German ambassa- dor saw Lord Salisburk "butter would not melt in his mouth,' and his words were honeyed, yet when Count Won Buelow, the German minister of foreign affairs. spoke publicly he was anti-Britsh. and when the dispatches which would, in the nature of things, be published were written by the German side they were formulated in the same strain. To quote a British foreign offi ioI of the world and curried favor privately"
 iiigblJ erestiag Events
 In comparison with the surprising impor- tance attached to what is taken to be the addition of tine Orange Free State to the British dominions events in Great Britain this week were highly uninteresting. Par liament has not distinguished itself The most interesting feature was the debate arising over the "stop the war" meetings and the accusation against the government of palliating the suppression of free speech by allowing such meetings to be broken up Though the liberal arguments sounded well enough there is scarcely a corporals guard in England at present who are willing to stand up as being against the war enthusi- asm, that has flowed in with the tide of cuSCSsss anu lHe DdIly NSWS, u06 IDeTal organ, says:
 England Is not in the mood to stand by and hear open ridicule or covert sneers at those who have died for England
 kipling has been quiet; the disappoint- ment of the week, his "the sin of witch- craft creating little interest, and it is severely criticized all around for it's lack of common sense.
 The will of Isaac Gordon, the notorious money lender, who died recently, cannot be found, and Is being advertised for. It appears this well known name in the Eng fish courts, though Gordon himself rarely appeared, was borne by a man only S5 years, who Is credited with leaving s5,OOO.- GOO. On his body was found $20,OOO and in his office $135,OO0 in cash. This accumula- ton was due to the fact that the banks finally would not have anything to do with his accounts This scathing obituary ap- pears in Mainly About People:
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