The American Press generally warmly approves of Mr. Chamberlain's speech and welcomes the prospective alliance between Great Britain and America.
The speech has aroused indignation in Spain.
The Berlin and Paris papers deplore the language used as being calculated toirritate instead of allaying the present difficulties.
Speaking in the House of Lords, Earl Kimberley asked for explanations of Mr. Chamberlain's speech, and Lord Salisbury declined to discuss the question without having the speech before him. He stated that the policy of Great Britain was unchanged, and that it consists in maintaining the Chinese Empire, in developing commerce, and in preserving friendly relations with all nations.
He said that our aims in the occupa tion of Weihaiwei were intended to encourage China to resist domination by any single Power, and that he was unable to believe in the collapse of a nation consisting of four hundred niillions of brave people.
MR. GLADSTONE'S CONDITION, Mr. Gladstone is in extremis.
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