The controversy thus far has had to do imply with the negotiations which preced-od the declaration of war. There is yet to be told the story of an attempt at intervention by the European Powers after the battle of Manila. Not long after Dewey's vic tery, when it became plain that the United States was determined to press the war in the Philippines, with a strong probability of securing 'a permanent foot-hold there, a proposition' was made by one of the European governments, presumably Austria, that the Powers should unite to revent the further advance of the United tates in the Orient and, if possible, bring the war to a close before the status there could be changed. This attempt, it is said, as baulked by the blunt refusal of Great ain to have anything to do with it and by an unmistakable intimation by her Foreign Office that, in case the other Powers should undertake to carry out their scheme, Great Britain would feel compelled to come to the assistance of -the United States.
It is recalled, also, that while Dewey was lying in Manila harbour the German admiral, Vou Deidrichs, persisted in embarrassing, so far as he could, the operations of the American fleet. He maintained an offensive espionage upon Dewey's movements and kept his flagship between the American fleet and the shore until Dewey notified him with unmistakable emphasis, that unless ho withdrew from the line of fire he would have to take the consequences.
On the same general subject of the controversy the Associated Press cable dispatches from London last Saturday cou-tain this curious story Among the American residents in London during the month of May, 1898, it is recalled that an intense pro-Spanish feeling existed on many sides, especially in society—society where women connected with Government officials appeared wearing the Spanish colours. In this and many other ways London became none too comfortable dwelling-place for Americans at that period, for the Press teamed with anti-American' editorials "The cessation of the latter was duc to a remarkable occurrence, which the Assoc ated Press is able (o announce for the first time, After Dewey's victory, when the lish women were not so gaily display: Spanish rosettes, Lord Salisbury took the almost unprecedented step of communicaing with the Editors of the leading Conser-dailies, urging them to desist from criticism of the United States, pointing out how vital it was to Great Britain's interest that the side of the United States, and not that of Spain, should be advocate ed in the English Press."
Rear-Admiral Sampson, Commander of the Atlantic fleet during the Spanish war, was placed on the retired list Fast week, having reached the age of sixty-two. Wrecked in body and mind, hie may come to the end of life at any time. Tt is seldom that ho is able even to recog-his members of his own family. Ten days ago he was so ill that. his physicians believed that he was at the point of death. From that condition he rallied slightly and it is possible that he may live for weeks.
or over a year Admiral Sampson's mind has been failing. During all that time, it is said, he has been ignorant of the controversy in which his name has been linked with that of Schley. He has never known, it is stated, that a Court of Enquiry was requested by Schley or ordered by the Navy Department, nor has he realised that the newspapers of the country have been filled with discussions of the battle of Santiago and of the events which preceded and followed it. One consolation only there is in a sickness such as his—he not realise the abuse and denunciation which have been heaped upon his name by the Sebley partisans.
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