Lehi Banner | 1899-02-11 | Page 1 | Franco-Spanish Alliance

FRANCO-SPANISH ALLIANCE. What Might Have Happened Eight Yeara Ago. London, Feb. 11. Tho Vienna correspondent cor-respondent of the Standard, referring to tho reports that Franco Is seeking a Spanish alliance, recalls the fact that In 1801 Austria proposed that England and Spain should join the drelbund and that tho proposal was acquiesced In by Germany aud Italy, "Hut Lord Salisbury firmly declined," says tho conespouilont. "Had It not been for tho attitude of tho premier, then Spain might have belonged to tho -Ullance, and the whore, course of tho recont events would havo been different." differ-ent." According to the same correspondent, the Austrian, papers comment upon affairs af-fairs in the Philippines In a tone which Is decidedly anti-American.