Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-02-09
WILL UNCLE SAM AND JOHN BULL
BE CRAWN INTO ORIENTAL
TROUBLED
To What Extent Does Entente Cord
ale Go Toward Involving United
States?
FEELING IN FAVOR OF JAPAN

Washington, D. G., Feb. 9-Ihe col
lateral possibility that war in the Ori-
| ent may involve the United States
presen ame of the most interesting
features of the crisis that has forced
itself upon the great councils of the
world powers As far back as the joint
expedition Of Peking, there was in
the atmosphere Of the east a feeling
of brotherhood and If the closer friend.
ship between those two We're cn the
scene of action under the respective
i flags of America and of the mikado
The people of the east claimed that
| an entente existed between the people
Of the Flowery Empire and the Anglo.
F, Saxon giants of the world The teie-
graphic advices Cast nighp that Rus
sia had voiced her diaapprsWal OF
! the support offered by Great Britain
to the japanese would seem to indi-
cate that the feeling which found ex-
preston in the Orient four years ago
is. at least reflected in the war coun-
ellis of the Russian nation. That this
feeling grew cut of substantial friend
! ships on the part of the Anglo-SaxOn
pec'ple for the Japanese. has found
more than place in current gossip.
The British warships are now mid
way between the opposing Japanese
and Russian squadrons in the Yellow
sea. Reaching out in an unbroken
chain from the actual seat of war TO
the Suez canal the British lien guards
the sea stations that mark the water
pathway of the world to the scene of
action. The ccaling stations are large
ly swept by English guns and the only
! unbroken route ffcm Europe TO the
battle-ground is dominated by the
British. with the Mediterranean fleets
CT the word thanked on the cne end
! by Gibraltar and on the other by the
/
| Red sea ietenses of his majesty. King
Edward The Trans Siberian railway
| might, of g possibility. be blown up and
| rendered useless; the unmarked track
c,f the sea is impervious to high explos-
| ives
Thus the omport of the possible con
|
| hood becomes immediately apparent.
The American pat in the program
provided with the harbor of Manila
| affording base Of supplies that can
MT be overestimated in looking al
| the strategic points Of the situation.
Tc the north, Subig bay, from which
the Americans sailed under Dewey to
sink the Spanish fleet affords a rem
deZy0us of mo- mean worth.
Grouped about the bay the American
naval force Of the Asiatic squadron
| represents the strength OF Uncle Sam
in the zone Of action. Admiral Robles
d. Evans, he CT the Fighting Bob"
title, is in command of the force
1t consists of twenty four vessels. big
and little, including the battleships
Kentucky, II 800 tons; Wisconsin. II,
500 tons, and Oregon, 10200 tons: the
cruisers Albany Raleigh, Cincinnati,
New Orleans, the monitors Monterey
and MOnadnOck, the gunbCats Helena
INicksburg, Wilmington, Elcano. Villalo
hos and ten small gunboats cs the
Philippine squadron.
Coaling stations reaching from Pol
| LAX to Guam, Guam TO Honolulu, and
| giving to America the coal trust posi-
tion of the Pacific completes. in con
nection with Great Britain, the mas
terry Of line from Gibraltar 20 San
| Francisco.
In the matter of land forces. the
United States fccce in the Phillip