The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-24
|ENCIISHMEN LOOK FOR WAR Believe Roosevelt Is Planning It. WANTS 10 FlGHT JAPANESE They Say I Quick War Would Re
 elect Him.
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BY ROBERT iBnoDrRICk.


 London. Nov. 23.--In the English naval circles the belief Is spreading that iti spite of President Roosevelt's assurances to the contrary the Ameri. can battieship squadron is to etay in the Pacific indefinitely and iB not going there msrel yfor manoeuvring purposes.
 A proof of this, English naval offi- ciais say. is the fact that the Ameri- can governmsht has ordered moro than twice the amount of coal necessary for the cruise of the fleet.
 Two hundred thousand tons of Amer lean coal are to be shipped from Nor folk, Va, on board twenty three large Brttiah steamers, but although this would be an ample supply for the fleet during the whole cruise. 1t must be re- f1embered that an equally large amount of Welsh coal has been ordered from British frnus.
 It Is the general belief here that President Roosevelt foreseeing that war with Japan Is unavoidable at some time, desires 1t to come soon partly be- cause Japan is still weak financially because q war coming just before . Presidential election would surely force him to accept office for another term which is supposed to be his secret ann bition.
 That Japan is not unaware of the dangers of the situation is proven by the fact that the shipyards of that battleships as fast as their capacity will permit and nearly all the new battleships are of 22,000 tons or 1000 tons larger than the Dreadnought while since the Russian war she has added her navy some cruisers of the British Terrible" type and very large number of torpedo boats.
 AvAsr0h IanAn IA showing feverish haste in what is termed completing the Qualifications of Formosa. Gn island which Japan hith. erto considered Nmillstone round her neck. large naval harbor capable or accornmodating the biggest battieships being constructed on the eastern sioo of the island, and a torpedo station on the southern side, while Japanese engi- neers are working night and day on the Qualifications on the southern and ca stern sides those nearest the Pactho coast of the United States. Railroad construction Is also proceeding at pace which is remarkable in view Of what are considered the possibilities of the island. Another significant point is that enormous stores of provisions and ammunition are being accumulated on the island. and no real explanation of this fact Is forthcoming.
 Another fact which shows that Brit ish business men consider war, if not likely at least possible, is the circum- stance that the underwriters who nave insured the British vessels carrying coal for the American fleet to points in the Pacifc have inserted in the poll. cies the clause that they are to be null ana void in case any vessel 10 captured and sunk by beliiserent.
 ssureaaAought' 'ss . Failure.
 The giant battleship "Dreadnousht" which it had been hoped was to be inc pride of the British navy, Is dis mai failure, as 1t has proven to be ab- solutely unmanae eeable, all denials from the admiralty notwifhstanding.
 Time and again the "Dreadnought has been modified. and new rudders. news propellers-three successive sets of the latter have been fitted. under various pretexts. but with the one ob- feet of overcoming those qualities which make 1t impossible either TOT inc ship to n1anoeuvre with ordinary ships or to enter harbor as that at Sheerness.
 Law sult Reveals Secret.
 A romantic piece of secret history of the French Second Empire was hid Sen behind a prosaic lawsuit heard in the London courts. It was the story of Elizabeth Howard, the beautiful English woman who was beloved by inc Emperor Napeieon III before his marriage with Eugene de Ma Montije. The legal question to De dscided was as the division of her fortune a'sposai ot s7oo 0O0 which once belonged to her.
 Elizabeth Howard was famous Lon don demi mi-nondaine sixty years ago. She was m exquisitely beautiful woman, wealthy and. fascinating. and she kept sort of salon" in London for fashionable men. During ms eA'is In London Louis Napoieou. nephew of the Great Emperor. freQuented her house. and was given financial assist ance by the beautiful Elizabeth.
 when he became President of the Republic, he installed Miss Howard in apartments at St. Cloud, took her with him on his journeys and gave her the