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Show PICKS ENGLAND 10 FIGHT M UNAIDED American Writer Thinks Great Britain Would Face Germany Ger-many Single-Handed. Special Cable to the Tribune. BEltLTN. May 1. The well-known German paper, TCrcuz Zcllung has a. correspondent cor-respondent in Now York who puts for ward a statement In regard to what people peo-ple In America are thinkintr of the future fu-ture relations between Germany and England, Eng-land, which has given rise to much discussion. dis-cussion. If one i to believe the correspondent, cor-respondent, political circles In America do not think war. If war there must be, will ofHMir between Germany and England purported by allies, but that it will be a duel between Germany and an unsupported unsup-ported England. The correspondent says that his countrymen coun-trymen are no bad Judges In such mattom and cites the then quite disregarded prophecy of an American general at St. Louis, four years br-rorc Its outbreak, of a war between Russia and Japan and the extreme probability there was that tho Japanese would bo the victors. American opinion, according to the N'ew Voik writer, is that Fraucc, England's Eng-land's natural ally in ease of a war with Germany, does not wish war or moan war. for had she meant or wished It, she has had amplo occasion for declaring de-claring It repeatedly in the last few years. The American Idea Is that England would rather enter upon a war with Germany Ger-many single-bunded, clnce an allied Frnnce would demand the costly and risky support of an English army of at least 150.000 men, while acting alone she could rely wholly on her dreadnoughts. Tho question, of course, Ils as yet In ! tho reslon of conjectures and probability. probabil-ity. In this country It Is universally believed be-lieved that In caae of war, Germany would havo to faco a coalition. |