Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1899 — SITUATION GROWS ALARMING. [ARTICLE]

SITUATION GROWS ALARMING.

France Aroused Over Tone of the English Press. France’s defeat in Shanghai by England, aided by the United States, is liable to foment Anglo-French hostility, coming, as it does, upon the friction between the two nations, caused by serious difference* in Madagascar, Newfoundland and elsewhere. England’s persistent worrying of France in every quarter where their interests approach is only explained in two ways—either England wishes a war with France or el * she is too phlegmatic to see the effect of her repeated diplomatic onslaughts on the sensitive French nature. Editorials in the English papers have taken a domineering and insulting tone, which shows an inherent racial hatred of the GanL ' j