The San Francisco call., 1898-01-30
ENGLAND IS
 SOLVING THE
 PROBLEMS And as Usual Things Are Coming Her
 Own Way.
Special Dispatch to The can.

LONDON, Jan. 29.-After an un- usually prolonged period of extreme tension all signs point to an early inn provement in if not complete solution of the various international political problems agitating the nerves of Great Britain. The Foreign and Colonial of fees are beginning to see daylight through the darkness which has long been enveloping the Far East, West Africa, the Upper Nile and India; and unless signs fall ard information from the best informed circles is faulty, the Marquis of Salisbury and Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, will divide the honorS and Great Britain will secure about all she asks So far as China is concerned, this view, in connection with the speech of MT. Curzon, the Parliamentary Sec retary for the Foreign Office. on Tues day, and the reported acceptance of the British loan, is generally regarded as correct MT. Curzon foreshadowed the, probable success of the loan negotia- tions, the achievement of Great Brit aims purpose in keepinig the ports free to the whole world and the mainten- ance of treaty rights whereby spheres 
 The Russian proposal of loan on the same terms as Great Britain was not taken seriously. It is understood that she has not the money herself without drawing upon her war reserve funds.
 France is daily showing less inclina- ton to burn it's fingers in a game in which, even if successful, Russia would be the only gainer; while Germany ap- pears to have set completely around to the British side. Throughout, the situation has never been so alarming as sensationalists attempted to paint it. Hence the CZar's peaceful assur ances and Lord George Hamilton's statement in his speech on Tuesday that relations with Russia were en- tirely satisfactory will not have sur prised America.
 Turning to West Africa, an official of the Colonial Office states that the impossibility of securing witnesses from the West Coast earlier is the req son for the delay in the Paris negotia- tions Some of the most important witnesses arrived only last week, and they are now in Paris. Thus far all the British demands have been con ceded nominally, and "provisionally pending the result of the convention" !" but MT Chamberlain is perfectly sat isfied that the British claims will be upheld, and that the French will be confined westward of a line prolonged from the present Lagos Dahomey frontier to the Niger and along the right bank of the Niger to Say.
 In the meantime he does. not propose to risk being caught mapping by a probable adverse decision of the con- vention, so he is pushing troops and supplies to the front as rapidly as DOS sible. A new regiment of 2000 Hussars has been enrolled at Ibaden during the last few weeks, and detachments will be sent to the front as soon as the men become efficient.
 In regard to the Upper Nile the in- teresting news which MT. Curzon dropped on Thursday to the effect that the notifications of the treaty between Great Britain and King Menelik of Abyssinia have been exchanged and that the Government hopes shortly to have an accredited representative at the Abyssinian court has given the greatest satisfaction as helping to solve the question of the Upper Nile The terms of the treaty will not be di- vulged until 1t is presented to Parlia- ment, but the hints dropped at the Colonial Office indicate that the agree ment is based on the principle that friendly Abyssinia on the Upper Nile is preferable to hostile France Therefore King Menelik will be allowed to gratify his ambitions in the euua- torial Hinterland in a manner not in- terfering with the Anglo-Egyptian plans