The Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, spanking at Birmingham, stated that foreign situation was serious and critical. He said that the time was not far distant for an appeal to the Britain stood alone, and that therefore triorism of the people, that Great
it-was the duty of the whole Empire to draw closer together.
He said that our next duty was to raw closer to our American Kinsmen, and that any war would be cheaply purchased if the end of it were an Anglo-Saxon alliance.
He stated that the situation in China was extremely unsatisfactory, as Great Britain was unable to declare war against Russia without an ally; and that our interests in China were so enormous that no more vita) question had ever been presented to Government; and that, unless the fate of China is to be decided without England, the latter must not reject alliances.
London, 17th May.
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