The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-06

bility while the brawls among themselves
tend to make cooperation futile.
London is to be fortified against q pos
siDle invasion by forces landing on the
southern coast. The plan Of fortworks
dates as far back as the time of the Duke
OF wellington, but has been revived by
Lord Wolseley and other military authord-
ties and adapted to the changes of modern
warfare. The Military Works bill pro-
vtdes for the construction of chain OF
fort works from the Southern Downs to
the heights on the south Of London, On
which the Crystal Palace is a conspicu-
Gus object. The scheme includes barracks
and other military works. The cost, which
VIII be something formidable for the
Treasury to face, will be met by advances
from the Consolidated Fund, to be repaid
by instalments extending over twenty
years
The retirement of Sir Julian Pauncefote
from the Washington Embassy and from
the diplomatic service will not taks2place
untal the Venezuelan arbitration reaches a
more definite phase. and the last possible
dificulties in the way of acceptance of the
General Arbitration Treaty between Great
Britain and the United States are over.
The removal of Sir Philip Curie from
at an early period is certain. The Right
hon. George n. Gurzon, Parliameqtary
Secretary Of the Foreign Office. ,defend-
cusations from the Conservative side But
1t is no secret that Lord Salisbury is dis
satisfied with Sir Philip. and that the
some other post. A highly placed prom
inent official of the Foreign Office told a
United Associated Presses reporter to-
under consideration for some time. If
a special envoy were sent, as proposed,
e. to assist or replace him in the enormous
stantinople, Sir Phillip would resire and
retire. Lord Salisbury has a warm per-
s1nsI soma Tegard g., f9r him dating back to the
retary of the. Foreign Office. He wishes
MN TO continue in the diplomatic SER
vic vice, but it is difficult to place him after
II long period of quiet becomes the
prospect at Washington he might be
eeadad senf there ere pSgFn siE Julian sue
Secretary at the Foreign Office, and thew
were the first officials in that Capacity
VINO VINO were elevated to the rank of Am
The Sanitary Conference on the bubonic
plague, which opens at Venice next Fri
day, will not find the British Government
In agreement with majority of the de-
legates as to the necessity of internat,o
al precautions to prevent the extension Of
the plague. The British Government has
done nothing yet to check its possible ap-
pearance in Great Britain beyond order
ing that all ports having traffic with India
pc visited by special sanitary inspectors.
NO measures of quarantine have been taxi
en- ana rags and goods generally can be ex-
ported from Bombay and Kurachee with
out hlndrance or inspection. Relying upon
the climatic conditions of England which
are supposed to be unfavorable to plague
epidemic, and on sanitation, which Is now
general throughout the country, the
British authorities do not In the least
share in the European scare. IF
the attitude to be taken by
can be forecast from certain official utter
ances here 1t will be summed up in con-
tending that the measures to check the
spread OF the epidemic in India are as
iva nc. f1pr. r. A.
lection against the epidemic afflicting
Europe will be greater attention to clean
liness at the ports and among the peo-
pies Of Europe. Put plainly. the English
proposals are useless. Get clean and
plague will not attack you.'' The no.
torious unsanitary state Of italian towns,
the dirty habits of the people, the flthi-
tation in Austrian and German and even
French centres as compared with the
English will give point to the English
bonic pestilence with fdirt and bad feed
ing has been proved in all the medical
reports now appearing In the press
Traced from its appearance in 1894 among
the crowded vileness of Canton. where it
claimed $1,000 victims In a few weeks, to
Hong, Kong Macao in 1885 and to Bonn
bay in 1896. the one soil on which it has
fiourished has been personal uncleanliness
and insanitary environments. The Venice
congress is likely to approve the resolu-
tions of the International Sanitary Con-
gress. held in Paris in 1894, to which the
British authorities have never paid any
attention and which have not been eff
fectiyely carried out on the continent
Spasmodic sanitary efforts were made ae
the time of the last cholera visitatio in
Germany, Italy and other Continental
countries, but since then the International
regulations have been generally ignored.
The Council of the Socialist Democratic
Federation are arranging a popular DEM
EQmfnA
scandals as disclosed in the United Asso-
ciated Presses dispatches of last week.
silence on the part of the leading London
papers regarding the misrepresentation or
the vast sum, estimated at FL, 900 sterl-
ing, raised by additional taxation in
India to Irovide fer the Inevitable re-
curing fan ines A circular issued by the
Socialist Council points out that this fam
eve every W ten years l fi5 200 900 sterltng % would %
be required to relieve the famine; that
the population of India has Increased liz
huge sum of 200 O00. 600 rupees Is now
paid annually to English officials, mill
tary and civilian; that the apprecia ton OF
the stoppage of the coming of silver at
the mfnts have involved the population
In common ruin, and that English greed
The government has been charged in
religious organs and the Ministers have
been privately accused of supposed in
tention to allow the Indian Government
to repeal what is called the Cantonments
Act. There Is no doubt about the fact
that the Viceroy's Council has urgently
appealed to the home government to
drop the act. Out of 5000 British SOL
diers now IN India, only 240o0 are not
suffering from a special disease more or
less severely. One-half of the whole army
Is incapacitated from prolonged march,
ing service. Preventive measures against
the disease are taken in every army snd
were found of the highest utility IN the
Indian force when medical inspection of
the Cantonment women was practieed.
THE act was passed under violent pres
sure from English religious sections.
chiefly the Non-Conformists. They viii
with greater violence resist its repeal
DR.. Montt, ex-PreSident of Chilli will
financial mission. He will visit Paris
and London and possibly Berlin before
returning to his own country.
Advices from the Riviera record q sea-
son of unusual bril1iance. Never was there
greater crowd of celebrities sojourning
at Monte Carlo, Nice and Cannes. Among
them are included Lady Salisbury, Lord
Rosebery, Sir c. Rivers Wilson and Lady
Wilson, Mr. EuStis, the American Ambas-
sador to France; Prince Orloff, Prince
Saltykoff, Dowager Duchess of Aosta.
Shrewsbury Sir Arthur Sullivan, Mrs.
Bernard Beere, Mrs. Cameron, the mother
of the Princess de Chimay, and EIr. and
Mrs. Gladstone. The Princess of Wales and
Princess Victoria of Wales will visit the
Duke and Duchess of Cumberland at
Cannes in March. Ex-Empress Eugene
will be- at Cape Martin In the course OF
the present month. The Empress OF Aus
Mia is expected to arrive on February 10.