The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-12
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
-,u "a TEE ANSWER CHINA MAKES
TO ENGLAND.

- Rrttnnh ILInIhNNT - 80 1917
p,rin and Protests AEniust the lease Of
=, Arthur TO Rus.in-He Tells the Beard
"a, the Lease Will Destroy the Baiauoe
..vsr in the Enst-The Board Replies
In Cannot Resist RassiaNa Demand
.. Fuperer DecIires 70 stand when ne
,...,,., Prince Hspry-The Speedy Fall sf
-. ,,,,obu Dynasty IL now Predicted.
sc,etol Gable Dispatches to THE sUS.
ovrN. March 11.-Sir Claude Macdonald,
a.. british Minister. visited the TsunE'li.Ya-
IN Tuesday and strongly protested against
.,,,, lansing Port Arthur to Russia, basine
n, protest on tho ground that such q lease
-ou,d destroy the balance of power In the East.
M. T,une.li.Yamen declared that 1t was I'M
.u, N withstand Russia'S demand.
Now that China has instructed Hsu'ching-
c.,r e1.Minister to Germany, to 20 to
q, Petersburg and seek q special au-
,.,o. with the Gear, with tho view to
.,,.,nine the withdrawal OF the demand, thus
,,,nsforrine the negotiations to tho Russian
.nltal. 1T is thought that Great Britain will be
VP'
,.,,.r able to influence the situation than IL tho
oscillations were continued here.
Tho Russian demand for the removal Of tho
prn,b railway engineers was referred to the
chinese Director OF Railways. who replied that
,,.,r services were indispensable. apart from
chair nationality. Russia, however, continues
Mar measure upon the Government to procure
their dismissal.
roxnoy. March IA despatch from shang-
M, avs It is reported that difficulties have
ham raised in Pekin over the Emperor's recop-
linn Of Prince Henry of Prussia whom he arrives
there.
Tbs Emperor refuses to stand whom he re-
Rive, tho Prince. saying that he has never
,.ood to receive anybody. His Majesty also
r,,p,e, the accommodation required for Prince
Henry and his suite.
Tho Rong Kong correspondent OF the Chron-
tt r~eiteratos with added emphasis the pre-
d,etIop that the doom Of the Manchus 10 i'm
pending. He says that the Manchu dynasty is
hopeless and that the imperial court may
migrate to shansi.
The increasing imperial demands on tho pro-
vincial government cannot continue. The re-
ul, may possibly DO a new Chinese dynasty In
central China, having Nankin for its capital.
HBri,ish protection shout be refused to this
new dynasty, othcr powers are ready to accord
their protection.
The advices from Pekin to tho effect that the
British Minister has protested to the Tsung-li-
Y1men against Russia receiving q lease of Port
Arthur are received with skeptlcism here as
being Incompatible with both the tone and sub
stance Of Mr.. Curzon's statement in tho House
~otCommons yesterday. d
The Times says 1t is not inclined to attach
much Importance to the advices. 1t thinks that
Sir Claude Macdonald may possibly have i'm
pressed the Tsung-li-Y amen with the gravity Of
the step they wero asked to take. but doubts
that he has taken the grave action ascribed to
him In the Pekin dispatches.
The Standard, conformably with tho attitude
ihas taken throughout tho trouble. complain.
ingly reveals its fear that Mr.. Curzon, in his
statement yesterday, was actuated by q desire
to state the position in q more agreeable light
than the facts warranted. 1t says:
at Is futile to preach peace where there is no
peace. Reading the British protest In the light
oithe ukase promulgated in st. Petersburg two
days later, ordering tho disbursement of 3d.
100000 roubles for warships. 1t will be felt that
We arc getting closer to tho time when the diff
tsrences may have to be adjusted by an appeal
10 force"
ST. PETERSBURG. March 1.-THE Noroe
Vrtmva edltorially declares that an under
standing with Great Britain on the far Eastern
question without Germany's participation
would not be acceptable to Russia and France.
whereas she would welcome a common under
standing with all four powers rs alone eAlca-
eious.
PARIS, March 1.-the Temps complains of
the m%enacing. alarmist tone of tho British
press. 1t argues against assuming that the
establishment OF Russia in northern China
stands In any necessary relation of cause and
enect to the suppression of British trade; and
appeals to the public to rise above tho dust
the dispute and persist In hoping and be-
hsrng that in China. as in West Africa,
diplomacy will do Its duty and spare tho world
Tho scandal of a wal. which would be the most
uhWarrantable of crimes against civilization.
and retard progress more than a century.
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