. Review of reviews and world's work. at powers would preventany intervention in case Russia should regainthe ascendency, although England and theUnited States are deeply interested commer-cially in not according to Russia a free handin the far East and certainly would like tointerfere. Yet England could not, withouthopelessly losing her prestige in Asia, deserther ally, Japan, but would proclaim waragainst Russia, for which emergency her gov-ernment is making preparation on land andsea. Then would come the long-expectedstruggle between these two powers for ascend-ency in Asia, a struggle whic
. Review of reviews and world's work. at powers would preventany intervention in case Russia should regainthe ascendency, although England and theUnited States are deeply interested commer-cially in not according to Russia a free handin the far East and certainly would like tointerfere. Yet England could not, withouthopelessly losing her prestige in Asia, deserther ally, Japan, but would proclaim waragainst Russia, for which emergency her gov-ernment is making preparation on land andsea. Then would come the long-expectedstruggle between these two powers for ascend-ency in Asia, a struggle which would most as-suredly concern European interests, includingthose of Scandinavia. HOW DKNMAKK WOULD BE AFFECTED. That the Scandinavian countries could notremain unaffected by a Russo-English is one of the possible eventualities of thewar. seems obvious, and it is therefore reason-able to outline their positions in such an emer-gency. They would probably issue a declarationof neutrality, in spite of attempts to show how. KING OSCAR OF SWEDEN AND NORWAY. (A recent portrait.) many political and commercial advantages theywould gain by taking sides with Russia. Thewriter continues : The Russian Government has recently presentedsuch hints in one of Denmarks foremost newspapers, ae LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. well us in hi her places. The cause ol I his is to be soughtin the fact that the neutrality of the Scandinavian coun-i lies—so far as it really could be preserved—in any casewould be a greater obstacle to Russia than to would have no reason for not respecting Scan-dinavian neutrality, while Russia would have the ad-vantage of using Denmark as a field from which tobinder the operations of the English fleet in the Danish minds there doubtless still lingers the inci-dent of 1807. when England captured the excellent Dan-ish navy in order to prevent Napoleon, who then wasthe master of Europe, from making use of it and thusparalyzing
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