The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-15
IS ANXIOUS TO END IT
China Again Willing to Sue
for Peace.
ROSEBERY'S POLICY CONDEMNED
The Chinese Government Would Like
the Powers to Intervene on the Basis
Of the Independence Of Corea as q
War Indemnity.


of the Independence Of Corea as a
War Indemnity.
LONDON, November THE Central
News says: There is reason to believe
that China has resolved to formally ask
the powers which have immediate COM
mercial interests at stake to stop the
war. The Chinese Minister is said to
have transmitted the request to the for
eign Office in London this afternoon.
This evening he started for Paris to seek
interviews with M. Hanotaux, the
French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and
President Casimir-Perier. The Daily
News has information that China is SUI
ing for peace; in fact, has instructed her
ENJOYS in Europe to submit to the
powers the terms which she is willing to
offer. 1t is formal renewal or repeti-
ton on larger scale of overtures made
to the British government month ago.
The News expresses again it's approval
of Lord Rosebery's effort for joint inter-
ference, and speaks regretfully of the
reluctance of the powers to see the mat
ter in the same light, and adds:
"No European government can desire
to see the disastrous conflict prolonged.
Even the United States despite the Mon.
roe doctrine must be anxious for the
regularity and security of their trade
with Japan. Sooner or latter, and bet
ter sooner than latter, there must be an
international settlement. 1t will be diff
ficult to contend that interference will
be premature now"
The Graphic has this dispatch from
Rome: According to a telegram from
Picking China is disposed to conclude
peace upon the basis of acknowledgment
of the independence of Corea and the
payment of an indemnity to be fixed by
the powers, and those powers willing to
support this arrangement are requested
to intervene.
RosEBERY's POLICY CONDEMNED.
BERLIN, November 1.-THE Kruez Zeit-
ung's correspondent in London has had
an interview with Sir Halliday Macart-
ney, counselor of the Chinese legation.
Sir Halliday vigorously attacked Lord
Rosebery's policy toward the combatants
as weak and vacillating, and added:
"When Japan demanded reforms in
Corea Lord Rosebery should have pre-
vented further complication by demon
strating to her that it would be impos-
sible to comply with such preposterous
proposal. He ought to have intimated
that, if there should be war between
China and Japan, Great Britain would
not remain neutral. When the Kow
Shing was sunk by Japanese men-of-
war he let another opportunity slip, al
lowing the British flag ship to be in
suited with impunity. The Eastern peo-
pie are not likely to forget how the flag
may be treated. But Lord Rosebery's
sudden attempt to interfere was more
remarkable than his previous let-alont
policy. 1t was not solicited nor ever
countenanced by the combatants, and
was utterly unwarranted. 1t was un.
precedented in the annals of British di.
plomacy. England will have to pay the
piper eventually. China will reimburse
herself for the cost of the war by impos-
ing duties on foreign goods when they
reach the barrier stations of the interior.
Obviously these duties will fall most
heavily on British trade"