WHY ENGLAND STANDS READY.
. 1 Sr.ux cannot conlinueassheis. The signs < ' of dissolution are upon her. Before the ! centnry ends the Peninsula may be again ; what it was when the century began, a ! European battlefield. May be or will be— ! which? It depends on France. Should her statesmen decide, as many would have them decide, to find in the decay of Spain 1 an opportunity to compensate herself for 1 her disappointment in North Africa, and : to divert from their trespass on the civil ! power the dangerous energies of her 1 ambitious military chiefs, troublous days arc in store for Spain and for the world. ' May it not be in preparation for this, among other grim contingencies— the disruption of Spain — that England stands ready ? It was Lord Salisbury himself who taught us to see in the decaying nations of the world the menace to its peace. — .The Outlook.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8413, 12 January 1899, Page 4
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148WHY ENGLAND STANDS READY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8413, 12 January 1899, Page 4
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