Show ENEMIES OF ENGLAND Chamberlains Speech Cricised at the European Capitals WANTS WAR WITH FRANCE SUCT PROVOCATION IOU I-OU I AFRICA Colonial S ret Jslee Prance 1 Committed Act of War and That It Is Eglands Duty t Destroy De-stroy the French NavAt Views at Par r New York May 16A dispatch to the World from London says The Sunday Sun-day paper are curiously silent on Mr Chamberlains remarkable pronounce mtnt In favor of an AngloAmerican I alliance The Observer the most In tuental politically of them however applauds Mr Chamberlains declaration declara-tion on that point while referring the accomplishment of hIs Ideal to some remote cntngec which has not yet arIsen The Observer says I Is wel understood In the United States that European Interventon Is not even discussed by the power just now because England will not tolerate I The real crux will come when the ra terms of peace are drafted Ten i ever the atAercan league at whIch Count Golucowski hinted at not long ago will lift Its hea We doubt the substance of any such apparition ap-parition because the coercion of AmerIca Amer-Ica Is too bIg a business for practical politics but the day that witnesses any serous combination againSt either the United States or Great Britain ought also to witness their consolda ton Into an atmerlcn alliance The World correspondent had a Con I veraion with one oC Ur LnaDer laIns most trusted followers to whom Mr Chamberlain had sever welts since opened his mind on the subject of an AngloAercn understanding as well a on the generl foreign Do icy of Great ttaln lbIs politician state ChamberlaIn ha been for the past yea convInced that SaIsburs foreign policy Is steadily and Inevitably leading to the ruin of Enlads com mercIa supremacy and he Is convinced that it Is via to the continued commercial com-mercial expansion both of England and that should the Unite States they make common cause agaInst European combinations Besides that he entertains a strong view that the French provocation in West Africa should be accepted by SalIsbury Sal-Isbury as a casus beI Englads supremacy su-premacy on the sea would enable her In his vIew to seriously cripple i not to destroy French naval expansion for yeas and he regards as Englands most ImperatIve Interest to weaken France so that Russia alone would I I have to be dealt with in the far east Englands Interests and those of AmerIca are identical In that seglon ar Identcl egon and ChamberlaIn regards their combination combI-nation a the frt sep towards a real zaton of the AgloSaxon alliance That Is the underlyIng motve of his speech although It was made under cIrcumstances which give It the appearance ap-pearance of an attempt to oust Lord alsbury from the foreign ofce GERMAN VIEWS The Daily Mails Berlin dispatch says that Chamberlains Birmingham speech Is characterized by the German press 1n general as undiplomatic acknowledgIng acknowledg-Ing Englands weakness cina the face of I Russia and < anundlgplfied bid for I amencas savor rue bUHUUUC Cl denty Is resenIng its opinion The semiofficial paper content themselves with expressing astonishment at a member of the cabInet speaking 5 plainly the Post adding that It would have been better for Englands Interests Inter-ests If the speech had not ben deIty red The Kolnlce Zeitung alone described describ-ed the colonial mInisters speech as a model of modern political eloquence I and congratulates the orator on being a practical politician with modern views speaking to the British naton with Bisackan bluntness The National ZeIung says the speech was nothing ICs than an acknowledge mont of bankruptcy not only of Eng lads poll hitherto but of the whole BrItIsh Dower and remarks that the British nation Is hardly likely to Identify Iden-tify itself wIth the colonial mInisters utterances The general ImpressIon Is that England will not be able to for an alliance wIt the United States a the Interests of the two nations are not identical in the east and AmerIca would not supply the necessary mill Russia tary Quota In the event af war with All newspapers which allude to the subject state that England will find no ally In Europe against Russia least of aU In Germany which has no reason for China quarreling with Russias acton In Prince Bismarks organ the Rain burger Nachtchten remarks I would be a deplorable err on the part of Great Britain to Imagine that any continental power should have the strange idea of enterIng the lists at this critical juncture on the sIde of English arrogance and to bolster up exclusively English interests COMMENT AT PARIS The Daily Mails Paris dispatch says the Temps which saw in Chamberlains speech only a bId for GermaI alliance and a blow In the back to Salisbury now discusses the chance of an ap preachIng war and says Chamberlain wishes to tae revenge on the Niger for Port Arthur at the expense of France It was the secretary forthe colonies not to go too far The Debats merely called Chamberlain Chamber-lain a Boulager In muft who wished wIsh-ed to disintegrate the conservative party par-ty Now it Indulge In wild talk about Chamberlain having the project of suddenly sud-denly falling on the French feet and destroying I afterward dealing with RussIa which would then derive no benefit from French alliance The effect ef-fect of the speech would be not only to male the French speculate on the chance of war but to stimulate a desire de-sIre for more alliances The MaUn says the speech has brought war between England and France wIthIn measurable limits The Eclare does not believe France is aImed atdlrecty but sees in the speech only a maneuver of Chamberlain Chamber-lain to ruin the government and come In himself as the advance guard of future Imperialism The Figaro believes that the man object ob-ject was to bustle France abut the Niger question I seeks consolation In the fact that it Is not England but sImplY Chamberlain that menaces France and Russia The tone of the popular papers Llbr Parole and the rest is terrIbly alarm Ist The Daily Mails VIenna dispatch says Mr Chamberlains speech in Birmingham Is dealt with at some lEngth by the press here generally The opinion is held that though It does not forecast Immediate wa I aur I for peace should Mr Chamberlain ever become premier RUSSIAN OPINION 5t Petersburg May 1Ghe Novo Vrqmya commenting upon the cent speech at Birmingham ofJoseph Chamberlain Cham-berlain the British secretary of the colontes says We doubt If the 1nlt ed States desIres an alliance and question ques-tion whether It would bt hrreeabbe to the other power hat the United States after wresting the PhIlippines from Spain should afenards sell them to Great Britain I The Novoe Yremya says that the c r display of such aintenton oud be sufficient to Induce the powers to I sufcient wer r I I consider theIr ne aUt dung the present war REFERRED io I p IAN London lIa 16h speech of Joseph Jo-seph Chamberlain the secretary of state forthe colonies at Birmingham on Friday lat Is still the snston of the day and was Introduced In the house of commons this evenIng DurIng Dur-Ing a question as to the date of the discussion dIs-cussion of the foreign office vote the liberal leader In te hous Sir William Vernon Hacourt saId the count de sire to discuss the new Birmingham foreign tremendous policy cheering The remark caused Michael DaY1t member for South Mayo havIng read an extract from Chamberlains speech in which the latter lat-ter deprecated the value of Russian promises asked the colonial secretary if he thought such language and sentiments senti-ments were consistent with the friend by relations between the two countrIes but the speaker refused tl allow the question to be put There was tremendous cheering Intermixed In-termixed wIt ministerial Oh51 |