Show THIS HAS A FISHY ODOR offensive alliance between spain and england A LEADING financiers TALE in exchange Echan for british Britis li support spain has mado important con coa cessions sessions ces as to ports in the mediterranean ter an attempt to unite unit all the european powers Agai aghast fast franco france and russia the reported alliance expected to home an E ea feet ou on cuban affairs new ew york april 6 A A tat ta the world from m london says y the positive statement come came to your corre spon dent from a leading fIn of A 1 tho the city tho the moneymaking money making part ota 0 london that england has conclude iV a treaty of balance with spahn hla hisil final mesu age was as within ten d adayr ay europe will bo be startled by the omal official announcement of tills this fact Conti mt 1 ing the world correspondent mays bays 1 I rive this statement 4 ith the ther arlis cn bervia which its ata international import i 1 anco ance warra var ranta pointing painting out only thet that tho the sensitive money interests of tha city are an otten often better informed on such nuch matters than Is tiny any part of tile the earn com except tho the highest authority anu inua ui now uno luc many years has boa been associated witia with tho the leading financial enterprises conspicuously in the international ones one of london bankers ills name if I 1 I 1 mention it would lie be recognized as very authoritative by every now new yorla blinker banker as aa wll well as every london bank or er such a 91 treaty would linao EL a vastly impo important rt ant bearing bear ln upon the continental SItIVI LIOn lt it would havo bravo r artt icly ian important poi bearing upon the cuban question in the th united stales 1 I quoted to my informant the statement in the new york tork papers reaching mo me by yesterdays mal that the washington government had received A saml can I Iral mation from the british that england would approve of tile tho by the united slates of cuban jils ills reply was waff that exactly the contrary Is ia the case cas that in the first pines the ministry la Is disposed to do anything it can with safety and in reason to check the pretensions of oc the tha american government to interfere ini in either west Ind indian larl or south american Amerl can affairs particularly in tile the west et indies w where here great britain herself has most in important par I 1 ant interests and that secondly Y spain by this treat has made important concessions conce aalona to england in return for the latt latter erD more or less active support ot of spahn in her conflict with the tb cuban rebels 1 I can furnish fernl h no na f further or I 1 it e at a e JAI I 1 a 0 oc f chis alleged treaty than that according to my informant inform it it will include giving to great BrIt slat the right to harbor find and rent refit her nata in the mediterranean ports of 0 spain the harbor 0 of is one of the finest on the lh mediterranean and would shelter th ill e entire r british navy the salisbury A ministry lini stry has openly mind and officially E staled one of its chief reasons for that extraordinary movement the advance on the soudan accepted as hostile by fance find and russia kuwa was to make at a friendly diver mon in behalf ot of italy all europe europ has haa in turn this assurance as 09 proof of En glands sympathy with the triple at alllan hence cc and even germany showed appreciation of 0 this fact by voting with italy antl anti austria ln to assist En Englan glands ls war with the iho khalifa khalia a aranco and Ru iyla on the contrary are ablene alth with hotel hot ll tr adigna alon against england because of this movement prom all 01 this the importance of bin an A berlo spa spanish ish alliance to great britain angco Is 9 obvious neither gibraltar nor malta E only two ports on the tha mediterranean is I 1 capable of either harboring or re refU fitting tim it a fleet but with both the italian and spanish ports thrown open to tile the british navy the tha fience ft fleet at toulon would be at Un lin glands mercy and russia ca could uld hardly matte make a junction from the alach sea pea anith the sill shara of her ber french ally such are arc the apparent reasons why great britain should to make maka sue such ta an aa alliance jt it would moreover leane leae her in safo safe possession of gloral tur tar |