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He Refers to the Observation-Disclosures
Attempting to Wreck Ii.
GRAVE DANGER In THE EAST
WAR CLOUD Is DAILY GROWING
MORE THREATENING,
But He Hopes Prudent Statesmanship
May Succeed in DispeiIing 1t
WithOu n Storm.

SOUTHPORT. England, April 3.-Mr.
George N. Curzon. parliamentary secretary
for the foreign Office. and the representa-
tive in Parliament for this, the Southwest.
or Southport. division of Lancashire, made
his annual address TO his constituents to-
day, and met with an enthusiastic recep-
ton. He opened with a reference TO the
arbitration treaty negotiations with the
United States, an achievement with which,
he said. the name of the Marquis of Sails
bury would be perpetually linked in history,
and for which, at any rate, the people on
this side of the water deserved the exclu-
sive credit. If motives and tactics which
were alien 70 the spirit of the proposals
they apparently intended TO wreck succeed
ed in strangling that agreement in its
cradle they would not succeed in depriving
its authors, either on this side or the other
side of the Atlantic, of the credit of its
parentage, and a later date would surely
come when their treaty. if not completed
now, would take its place as a part of the
code of the Anglo-Saxon brotherhood, and
perhaps a part of the international law of
the world. The lawgiyers who originated it
would ever afterward be held in honored
remembrance. These remarks were greet
ed with cheers.
Speaking of the Eastern question, Secre-
tary Curzon said that a war cloud was
daily growing on the horizon. and that the
people of Europe were regarding the cloud
with fearful apprehension, but he was
hopeful that prudent craftsmanship and the
unSelhsh aims of the powers may yet dis
pei the cloud before it breaks into a
cyclone of universal destruction. Secretary
Curzon then referred to the ''bogy iEteg-
ritx-,s Of the Otto,,ar. ,oo;r o-d .o;d .bo.
part Of International law which had here
tofore been modified by the powers would
be modified again. but that the distribution
or the empire as IL gradually breaks up
must be undertaken by Europe, and not
left to each Individual power to grab what
II thought was its share or the Spoils. The
only effect, he said. of Lord kImberley's
or Lord Harcourt's proposals to tear up the
treaties and repudiate the obligations of
Great Britain would be to aiienate her
allies and leave vacant a place in the con-
cert OF Europe which was a league Of
peace. $3.50
The speaker said that he could not imag-
inc a more impracticable suggestion than
Gladstone's that the cretans be allowed to
select their own governor. The withdrawal
of the Turkish troops was a logical Sc
quence after the withdrawal of Crete from
the authority of the Sultan England was
taking all the steps possible to get rid of
the Turkish troops on the island, but the
responsibility for them remaining rests
with the insurgents and the Greek troops.
who were encouraging them. Only a knave
would make the suggestion that we are act
ing for the Turks In this matter. and only
an idiot would believe that If Greece de-
clared war, as we read with shame. she
would do IL in order TO spite herself on the
powers. She could not act from a pettier
Or meaner motive or commit any greater
crime. Our duty lies with the concert of
the powers, because 1t Is in the cause of
peace. 1t is a cabinet of nations marking
the greatest advance of international law
and International ethics which the century
has seen.
At the conclusion of Secretary Curzon's
remarks he received an ovation and a vote
of confidence in the government was taken
and unanimously carried.