Spain And Japan Combine Against U. S.

London: A strong rumor is in circulation to the effect that the governments of Spain and Japan have arranged an offensive alliance against the United States. The terms of the underetanding, which is for the mutual protection of Cuba and ïlawaii, provide that in the event of an actively aggressive movement on the part of the United States tending toward interference in Cuban affairs or persistence ia the annexation of the Hawaiian islands, both Spain and Japan shall declare war simultaneously against the Uuited States and shall make their sea demonstrations along both the Atlantic and Pacific coast Unes of that country. The London Daily Mail says: "Seeretary Shermaii's seal dispatch is too undiplomatic for English ears and too hollow for American common sense. In the interest of humanity the nimored alliance between Japan and Spain is dcsirable. Our Yankee friends want a little blood letting to bring them to a sensible international policy, and thia wou ld best be done by and hands oter than those of England."