| Show WAR CLOUDS IN EUROPE Dispatches from Europe Indicate that prominent Frenchmen are expressing a desire to get hold of Great Britain while In London the sentiment is decidedly de-cidedly in favor of accommodating the oldtime enemies of the race V As shown by The Herald yesterday the Liberals are in favor of universal peace They are laboring assiduously to bring their factions together along those lines Lord Rosebery and all his i lieutenants are prepared with Dronos I als and agreements to submit for the I preservation of friendly relations with all other Dowers But the government unfortunately I it would seem is not dominated by this sentiment The Conservatives are aggressive gressive paradoxical as It may sound I They are actually indifferent about the I feelings of other countries They are not even choiceIn their lang age Russia Rus-sia has been offended France has been I insulted and kicked out of the Soudan Spain has been given the horse laugh I and Turkey bound over to keep l the peace by Lord Salisbury and his co laborers For some time It has seemed that the I British government is looking for trouble So long as the present administration i admin-istration is in power France will never need to 1001 far for a fight Some of V her warriors sense I too i Never wrete a French admiral the other day have we been so near war since 180 France would have been at war with England he added had not a careful reckoning up of the strength of the French navy with the Russian added add-ed shown the superiority of England at sea With a few more swift cruisers fitted to drive English commerce from the ocean the French government declared de-clared the admiral would have risked everything and gone to war over Fa shoda The story printed this morning to the effect that the French are gathering gather-ing at the coast may or may not be significant But the Frenchman who beguiles himself into an appearance of bravery with the thought that the British navy isnt formidable is doing himself an injustice and prhaps misleading leading a few of his compatriots The British navy will survive any struggle It may have with that of France |
