THE ANGLO-SAXON ALLIANCE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9447, 27 May 1898, Page 2

THE ANGLO-SAXON ALLIANCE.

(By Eleotno Telegraph— Copyright.) (Per United Press Association.) , (Beceived May 26, at 10.55 p.m.) Washington, May 26. Sir Julian Paunceforte has received many letters from all parts of Amerioa strongly advocating an alliance with Britain. ' : Masked, May 26. The Government has decided not to take hostile steps at Gibraltar against Britain in the event of the Anglo-American Aliiance being conoluded. 'It would be neoea sary, however, to proteot the territory overlooked by Gibraltar. The Brooklyn Eagle says :— '< Manifest destiny dictates an alliance between England and America, and not until it has been made shall we begin to coma into what is our own. There are but few distinctions, and there should be no differences. We. have heard from England, not officially, but not less significantly on'that account, and the echoes here'haye not been inharmonious." Time will do the rest. It is 'becoming more and more apparent that it England and America .fight it will be for, instead 6f against) each, other, and against tha.t which blooks "the way to a higher civilisation." , , - An officer of the' steamer Empress of Japan, just arrived at Vanoouver from the Orient, tells of an exoiting street' light which he witnessed in the streets of Hong Kong prior to the sailing of his -vessel. There are many sailors in that harbour, attached to the war vessels of jrarious nations, and they imbibe strong national prejudices as they watch the international' game* in the East. The trouble started in-a saloon". The, Russian Bailors combined with the Frenoh and Germans, and formed a double' line across a narrow street and dared any Johnny Bull or Yankee to pass. The' English and American sailors joined force's, and found they mustered 160 to the enemy's ,400. . Nothing daunted, they seized a lot of jinrikshas, formed a wedge with them, and rushed on , the foreigners with o oheer. They broke' the .line, Bmashed the jinrikshas, and continued th» fight with fists and pieces of the debris, until, as the informant relates!! they Jbad the 400 allies badly whipped. The din;was dreadful, but above it roae the singing of "America" and " God Save the 'Queen, 1 ! both, of course, to the same tube., The' authorities were powerless, ' anoVappealed to the commanders of the warships, '[who ordered the men to stop, and the .hostilities ceased. Thus has, been begun the-much-talked-of Anglo - Saxon . alliance against the world. ' The^Kew York Times recently declared, in the course of its campaign for the retirement of Mr Sherman from the post of Seoretary of State, 'that' nothing but the absence of a controlling head at the State department explained or ( exoused the, delay in making a formal and public Seolaration of support to the policy of Great Britain in the Far East.^ The New York correspondent of the Standard stated that the comments in the .American' newspapers on Lord Salisbury's temporary retirement from active political workconr stituted a tribute of respeof" worthy' of a foremost place in that surprising series -of events which, starting from the approach to hostilities over the Venezuela question, has since led up to the present 'entente cor*, diale." Lord Salisbury's " sagacious deference" to American susceptibilities during the crisis over Venezuela was " now repaid by the certainty that were Great Britain involved in war the United States would safeguard her possessions on this (the American) side of the Atlantic." And the New York Tribune, in referring to Lord Salisbury, made recognition'of his sincerity and straightforwardness, and of his friendly disposition towards the United States. "He has been," says the article in its concluding passage, , " the champion of British interests over those of America; he would, doubtlees, should occasion arise, be a ready champion of American interests over those of any nation in the world outside the AngloSaxon race. To him, as a man, the sympathy of this nation is given no less warmly than that of his own." '