The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-20
WORLDS FOREIGN ADVICES
CHAMB ERLAIN SAYS SITUATION IS
 BECOMING INTOLERABLE.
It May be Great Britain's Duty to Reserve Its Right and Independence to Take Isolated Action-Sir Michael Hicls- Beach Says That British Navy Is Strong Enough to Hold It's Own.

Beach Says That British Navy Is Strong
 Enough to Hold It's Own.
 London, Jan. 19.-The Rt. Hon. Jo- seph Chamberlain, secretary of state for foreign relations. said this evening: "The impotence of the European situa- tion is discredt to all the powers. The position is becoming intolerable and cannot be allowed to continue indefi- nitely. Though there would be a great risk in taking the alternative course. 1t may be our duty-I hope it will not-to reserve our right and independence to take isolated action.' The Standard and the Daily News will comment edi- torially tomorrow upon MT. Chamber lain's statement, characterizing 1t as most important and significant.
 Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, chancellor of the exchequer, speaking at Bristol this evening. ridiculed the notion of pro- viding graineries, as had been suggest ed, in some quarters. He said that the British navy was strong enough to hold its own and England had many friends ready to supply corn. Referring to the coming budget estimates, he said these would show that the government was fully alive to keeping up the standard of the army and navy, though he de- clared that it was not creditable to Canada or fair to English taxpayers that such a colony should practically contribute nothing to the navy of the empire. In conclusion, he said that China had approached England for as sistance to pay the Japanese indemnity and that the negotiations were still pending The newspaper statement on the subject he characterized as inaccu- rate and incomplete. The government was not ashamed of these negotiations and believed the country would ap- prove them. He could see no reasons why foreign powers should object.
 The British admiralty has just issued a list of the warships of Great Britain in the far east. It shows that the first class twin-screw armored cruiser Un- daunted and the twin-screw sloop AL gerin are at Kiao Chou Bay.
 Anofficial medical statement issued to- night re-asserts that there is no cause for alarm as to Mr. Gladstone's health, although it has not benefited as much as had been hoped at Cannes. The fa- cial neuralgia pains persist with daily fluctuations owing to the cold wins and wet weather, but the complaint is quite local. His physical powers have not suffered; his strength Is good, his appe- tite excellent. he joins the family at meals and takes regular drives, weather permitting.
 Berlin, Jan. 19,---A scientific article in the Cologne Gazette asserts that ac- cording to international law, Kiao Chau is German territory and an attack up on 1t would enable Emperor William to declare war without consulting the Bundesrath. The paper says: Fur thermore, being leased territory in a political sense, it remains as before, foreign territory Therefore, commer- cial and customs treaties between either China and European states, without Germany's consent, would be invalid.
 Considerable surprise has been caused here by dispatch from St. Petersburg to the Cologne Gazette announcing that
 Russia has formed two new army corps on the German and Austrian frontiers at Wilma and Kieff.
 Rome. Jan. 19.-There were renewed disorders in the poor quarter of Aneona, which is inhabited by anarchists and socialists. A number of men and wo-
 men attempted to barricade the streets
 but he police cleared the thoroughfares
 and arrested several persons. Troops
 are securing the country, arresting sus-
 picious bands of tramps. The agitation
 against the price of bread is spreading
 to the towns. A crowd assembled in
 front of the town hall at Sinigaglia, sixteen miles northwest of Ancona and demanded relief The mayor gave a | conciliatory reply, but the mob, which consisted chiefly of women invaded the | railway depot and the warehouses of Prince Ruspoli where they seized a 1 quantity of grain. The troops were fin- ally able to restore order. There has | been another slight disturbance at Ma cerala, twenty miles south of Ancona. | Several hundred work people have ap- peared in the district of Canero and cavalry has been dispatched.
 Havana, Jan. 19-.General Luque re- | ports that while reconnoitering during the past ten days in the San Martin
 district of Holguin, province of Santia-
 go de Cuba, he has inflicted the loss of thirty men killed on the insurgents. In
 addition. he adds, his troops captured
 seven prisoners. thirty-eight rifles and a quantity of ammunition. The Spanish
 column. according to General Luque,
 had one man killed and twenty-one | wounded.
 | Paris, Jan 19.-Midnight-rThere have
 been no further demonstrations up to
 midnight. The city is tranquil A
 slight anti-Jewish manifestation took
 place at Toulouse and there have been | demonstrations at Nantes and Rouen, where there were several arrests made. 1 Prague, Jan. 19.-The troops have been
 summoned. and this evening patrols oc-
 cupied the chief points of the city, ow- | ing to threatened disturbances arising
 from the Czech ferment. A few arrests
 have been made, but nothing serious l has occurred thus far.
 Appeal From missioners. l The appeal of Henry Saunders ot | Wallfngford from the decision of ths | county commissioners to refuse to grant | him liquor license will be heard to- , day before Judge Prentice in the s,,