The South-African crisis - pagina 83

THE SOUTHA.PRICAN

Add

dangers

the

also

which are

CRISIS.

external

ot

complications,

from being chimerical, and which oblige

far

England to go on indefinitely increasing her

fleet,

mercy of a combination of the France awakened by the sad affair

so as not to be at the

Continental

fleets.

of

Fashoda,

in

course

her dockyards with

is fllling

new

vessels

more and more persuaded

of construction,

that a political course that would place her indefinitely at

the

discretion

bankruptcy.

of England, w^ould end in national

Russia

doubling

is

her

Germany

fleet.

The sympathies of Ital}' Cliina. In America the fall of Mr. Mc. Kinley and the rise of Mr. Bryan would is

going to treble hers.

have been galled

in

down the whole scaffolding of the Anglo-Saxon alliance. Would England then, deprived of every bring

reduced to the most complete isolation, be able

ally,

to face the whole world

man, Lord war,

attempted to come

wished

to

all

make the

that

an arrangement

France a

in

clean

Northern Africa

sheet

of

the

next

exhibition

would

immediate action on the part of France.

theless,

there

Afghanistan, in is conflict

:

he

pending

might embarrass him, and he knew

that

questions besides

with

to

this great

with Germany in Africa and

wich Russia in China, Samoa, and

embarking on

before

Salisbury,

wisel}^

Certainly a farsighted states-

?

is

no lack of sensitive

Persia,

of interests.

Never-

points.

In

Egypt, everywhere, there

in

In

trammel

every corner of the earth,

the combustibles are heaped up. The least spark

may

cause the outburst of the conflagration that has been

threatening

us

since

1870.

Hence those

projects of

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