Evening star., 1895-06-19
No Credence in the Rumor of Great
Britain's Interference.
SUCH A COURSE MOST UNLIKELY
It Would Be Equal to a Declaration
of War.
LORD KIMBERLY'S ADMISSION

Officials of the State Department are Civ
irg no credence to the sensational reports
that Great Britain is getting ready to open
ly interfere with the present. status of the
Nicaragua canal
While Great Britain Is pursuing the same
Policy she has always pursued Of getting
control of everything in sight, it only re-
quires understanding of the concession
which Nicaragua has given to the Mica
raguan Canal Construction Company to
show that any talk of England's seizing
that property of her doing anything to
interfere with the neutrality of the canal
Is most unlikely. Such course on the
part of England would equal to decla-
ration of war.
The concession given by Nicaragua for a
canal across her country providing for it's
absolute neutrality within the area of Mic
araguan waters. English warships could
not attack the ship of any nation with
whom she might even be at war. OF
course, a cruiser of Great Britain, of any
ether country. would have liberty to ap-
proach the entrance of the canal to chal-
ienge airy otner vessel. but the firing on a
vessel within Nicaraguan jurisdiction
would be a breach of international law that
no one in the State Department thinks
would be for an instant entertained by
even hothead.
INC -NoSuuitO reservation.
The operations of Great Britain in order
to re-establsh Chief Clarence in the Mos
quito reservation may be carried on, and
1t may be that England has in her policy
toward the Mosquito reservation an idea
that the establishment there of SUBJ
servtent chief might at some future time
be of material benefit in England's rela-
tons with the Nicaraguan canal.
But that these operations have any pres
ent bearing on the canal project is re-
garded by State Department officials as
. exceedingly improbable. The canal being
hxed as neutral for all time, 1t must be
continued SO, regardless of where the stock
or the company might be held, and the con-
trol Is now held by citizens of the United
States. There would be no way for Eng
iand TO gain unusual advantage in Mica
ragua except by declaring sovereignty over
that part OF Nicaragua and Costa Rica
through which the canal passes and 1t is
considered absurd that such action should
be even contemplated.
Whatever may be England's purpose in
carrying out her policy toward the Mos
quito reservation. that policy cannot have
any bearing On the Nicaragua canal ex-
cept by gross violations of international
law
Lord kimbcrIy's Admission.
The idea that England has her eye on the
Nicaragua canal is further discredited be-
cause of the admission that Ambassador
Bayard secured from Lord Kimberly, the
British secretary of state for foreign af-
fairs. to the effect that England claimed no
sovereignty over the Mosquito reservation
lhat reservation has now been made into a
state of the republic named for President
Zelaya by the act of the Indians living
there, and If Chief Clarence should be re-
lnstated 1t will be merely through the suf-
ferance of the republic, and that act will
not change the status of the state.
The Nicaragua minister here places no
r1i thn
maneuvers of the English diplomats who
are said to be working to secure a control
over the Nicaragua canal The waters of
that canal are neutral, and must forever
remain so.