The augmentation of German navat strength la Spanish waters must of necessity ive rise to very consider able anxiety in view of the tension which is there prevailing. The seizure of the freighter Palos by the Spanish Government could not fail to be a very grave irritant calculated to awakened Moscow's wal units are to the Mediterranean 10 protect its civilian shipping, and Russian war vessels are to be sent there for similar duly towards Russian mercantile the dangers of a clash it the more aggravated. It seems idle at this juncture to point out that a hearted adherence to the nontion agreement in the first lace would have obviated all the danger which Is now to be feared, but that fact, nevertheless, remains. Adoption of 1 this late hour, would not be deadlock in Spain, there is a dang that the antagonists themsel their deeper ite desire to win' the struggle, may create incidents for the sole purpose of attaining satisfaction of that wish. It is not now solely.
question of what nations "will not intervene in Spain, but of which of them can be brought into it by the creation of incidents which in their present temper they would not be too willing to ignore.
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