Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1890 — IS THERE A PROSPECT OF WAR? [ARTICLE]

IS THERE A PROSPECT OF WAR?

A Washington special to the New York World in regard to the Behring Sea complication, says on the 7th: “Your correspondent is in a position to say positively and with full and accurate knowledge of the facts that the negotiations have reached a crisis which threatens the most serious complications to both nations. Without wishing to be guilty of sensationalism or. falsely misconstruing official utterances, your correspondent is able to state that Sir Julian Pauncefote has officially notified Mr. Blaine tnat if a single vessel flying the British flag is seized by American revenue cutters in Behring Sea or its waters, the powerful British fleet now assembling at Victoria, B. C., will receive immediate orders to recapture tbe seized vessel, and force will be employed if necessary. Unless the revenue cutter making the seizure should strike her flag to superior force, blood must follow, and while this may not necessarily lead to the declaration of war, a condition of things close to it must follow which may well cause the gravest anxiety in the minds of all English speaking people. ,

-An Ottawa dispatch says: The flagship Warspritte, which is expected to arrive daily at Esquimault, B. C., and be ready or any emergency in Behring Sea, is a powerful first class armored cruiser of 8,000 tons, carrying ten guns and Rear Admiral Hotham, C. B. The Nymphe, Daphne, and Espiegal, which accompany the flagship, are all twin screw sloops of eight and ten guns respectively. So this new fleet brings thirty-eight guns on the scene in addition to the Amphion and Champion already there. The British Minister denies all the alle gations made in the above dispatches to the N. Y. World. He says the negotiations have not been broken off and he does not believe their will be trouble.