| Show 9 BRITAIN SOU SOUGHT HT V Vf 1 4 AN ALLIANCE f Asked the United States in De December embel Last Closer Pact but the for a 8 r tion Turned a Deaf Ear Could Not Abandon Its Policy of 01 States St Loit ns as to Reason for Great I in ill European ment Britain makIng Public the Fact of an Approach to the United 1 States and Germany and the Statement Dune Done Says England is Short of Men tay a haVe predicts Preparing the Africa Not the Only Crucial Point s Life and Death Cautious Reply V tarl FarI to the tho thoe A lC e dort J F l 1 t on 11 I fr m fl V are arc dream cIrcum the nt mil do 9 Ie dI hat Orent In Int LAI R fl J the d t m II rd to the th J alliance It Is Iss I f f rV V g n fl t r 7 Intimations 11 r that s t I hL government by i II rieB S of their desire t 1 teen thC twp goo gov goolt be V t j b I and In the tho V lt the bit bilt tre t of ft 1 a d 1 f tar ear and made It that thu th Io T d I States could not notS II II UI p I It or S pe i Jt It Is that I Wt not In the thO form ot of V tores but even It they 11 that they thOy would bete Ul it 10 un DIet aol V th Ith II a cordIal r response poll e from fromal al t rabI enl hns been as 95 t L rd rean I cring the act ot of Great OrM t tta t Into an alIt alii ta I Oti tt 1 i Oer ot mt led id th pIrt ehe took tok to that It II ih b Ly ome that Ih the state stater cI upon by the Urit Urita r l a as a an un to 10 lr Ir Nac li m rt t th did not know I I an 81 a V In fl between the tho 14 i Sl t 1 I J and andI I bE It cf tt tV S made by anti trU TI n V that such euch an 1 C jn IrV Lt V a such a not from r e did como V u FItY TELLS IT uDo Ft F J 1 In the house of 2 the tte FalL f raised n a nIt It S D CD fl gil military an S1 a doubt as to toni ni thc th ver Orp earl f It t s br said ho tully fully td th of at the curt 1111 tn he aker I tat the measures adopted I Jet Ta tu In th the circumstance I It La d whether hether the paper i iI ii I d cf t 41 OJ J men In Great b this the s ot of state tor or war VV Iu J stand analysis sl For Forr I r Lord said he heUi I Ui the hl helt respect but by no noot ot of th lh ImaginatIon could they Ie aei e I lets as It was admitted 1 t LIT neI months ot of training aI Jt t them efficient nf of the morning I rith ANVa said Lord Rose If t the hope that there might II kIte kir news t I q me but when fight t on a to nt ry we hare been Id Ire TO tance amo an 10 Inch Inoh and 1 t P y n a should hould be w wanted I 51 b 11 A M J I J ij not nit know where V L I n It mn may be said Bald l 1 ij II t n I la lay barn bar the weak Iret f Ib ry rv but depend upon Of V I V hIJ r ur position as ast I C t I tm h t v l I i K o k whether the fleet I e g nl r 1 or r mobilized It Itt t a 1 lr n 1 j we can leisurely fJ u VV t re guing to do a fort fortt t r p a V hence The crisis l is T V aier 18 I upon you ou and anda 11 r at a t V l come to Q this house with proposals that In the month of at May wh when n permits you ou will viiI put under canvas and that then this Island and will willbe willbe be safe Cheers Tile crisis Africa I is urgent continued Lord ber but bitt Wf must not keep our bur eyes eos upon South Africa alone December the thu made earnest to great Germany and the UnIted States Statu for tor nn an alliance but tho those 1 overtures were not received with such cordiality as to en I the government to pursue them It does doell not appear that the friendship of France iranee would beAr any great strain and ns as to events have been recently witnessed eoJ In Per Ieria la of at which formerly would have had something to lIa ray but Which she ehe now passes unnoticed AND DEATH ems CRISIS IS ISIt It becomes the government to take taken n a large graSI ot of the situation and to tomake make adequate proposals Time Is the tho essence ot of the situation The mont ment never ocer It but time the burghers have hae and the present situation In South Africa hall ha arl arisen ell tram from this tact Lord Jord had referred to the I armies or of the northern States ot of the I American Union In tim the Civil war and to tho vast a t forces torce raised there within II a year ear Sonic Some one might reply that In inthe the tho United States at that time It was a I of life lito and tl and I would tell her S government now It ItIs itis Is or UIl u a matter of at life lite and death t If Great Britain were to lose South Africa site would lose the most base or of the united kingdom and she would lose that colonial support which has hal b boen n given because time have believed that the they were associating themselves hes with witha a powerful empire anti thus the empire would bp lk away from us Jr If this be benot not a lIte crisis I dont know I what It Is I The earl or of the liberal liberalI I leaders ader said ho he felt the danger of at the situation with Lord Rosebery Although h h he would not n a direct I Intention to at the pros eat ent moment he said lie he coul couk hot over oer overlook look the tact that there was IS II a move merit me t of troops In progress which It if not menacIng showed that ties tics ot of tM the future Were absent train froM the Russian mind The marquis of Salisbury the lIre vre mier In t the o course ot of his reply for the government HI I cannot enter up up th the springs that guide the Russian government or the course It Is like likely to take nor can enn I discuss the health ot of the ameer or of Afghanistan 48 41 to whether our forces are adequate for the work In South Africa or whether It Is true that the government has hils alwn always 8 been too late and ba neglected J I would gladly accept n a chal challenge challenge lenge provided the words would not go goJe beyond Je ond this chamber The present troubles are not due to the expansion of the empire but to miscalculatIons made In and In Our forefathers were ere not die by bad beginning and YI should follow their example and not Ue be r cast down The government is II con convinced vinced now os ne they always have been that the tho Issue will be brought to n a sue conclusion I dont think any Is to be obtained from tak lag Ing II a gloomy gloom view |
