The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-30
GERMANY CHANGES FACE
SITUATION NEVER AS ALARM
ING AS PAINTED.
cAUsrIC COMMENT OF SPANISH PRESS
The Spanish Navy in Helpless and Neglected
Condition and The Government is Un-
easy at the Sending of the
Maine TO Havana.

MAINE 10 havana
| copyright 1893 by Associated Press
London, Jan. 2S.-(Special London ca
bic letter. AFTER an unusually prolong
| ed period of extreme tension. all indica
! tons point to an early improvement in.
if not complete solution, of the various
| international political problems agitating
| the nerves of Great Britain. The for
eign and colonial offices are beginning
| to see daylight through THE darkness
which has long been cnycloping the far
| east. West Africa. the upper Nile and
| India, and unless signs fail and infor-
nation from the hest informed circles is
faulty, the Marquis of Salisbury and
| Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of
! State for the Colonies, will divide the
| honOrS and Great Britain will secureI
about all she asks. So far as China is
concerned this view. i'm connection with
/ the speech Of Mr.. CurZOn. the parliament
| tary Secretary for the Foreign Office.
at Bolton on Tuesday. and the reported
/ acceptance of the British loan is gen.
orally regarded as correct. Mr.. Curz0n
fOreehad0wed the probable success Of
lfhe loan negotiations, the achievement
of Great Britain's purpose In keeping the
jfports free to the whole would and the
maintenance of treaty rights whereby
spheres Of influence are rendered inn
| possible"
The Russian proposal of a loan To-
t15hina on the same terms as Great Bril-
tain was not taken seriously. 1t is I'M
derst00d THAT she has not the money
herself without drawing upon her war
reserve funds.
| Paris is daily showing less inclination
to burn it's fingers in a game. in which,
| even If successful Russia would be the
, only gamer, while Germany appears
! To have come completely around to the
British side. Throughout. the situation
I has never been so alarming as sensation
alists attempted to paint it. Hence the
| Cars peaceful assurances and Lord
! George HamiltOn's statement in his
speech on Tuesday that relations with
| Russia were entirely satisfactory will
| not surprise America.
Turning to West Africa. an official of
the Colonel Office informs the Ass0-
| ciated Press that the impOSsibiity of
securing witnesses from the West Coast
earlier is the reason for the delay in
/ the Paris negotiations
Thus far. all the British demands
have been conceded nominally and "pro-
visionally, pending the result of the con-
ventiOn." But Mr.. Chamberlain is per-
fectly satisfied thai the B1itisih claims
are upheld and that the French will Ike
| confined westward of Il line prolonged
| from the present Lagos ahOmey from
tier to the Niger. and along the right
hank of the Niger to Say In the mean
time. he does not propose to risk being
/ caught mapping by q possible adverse
decision of the convention. go he is push
ing troops and supplies to the front as
| rapidly as possible.
In regard to the upper Nile the inter
esting news which Mr.. Curzon dropped
| on Tuesday to the effect that the rati-
| ticationS of the treaty between Great
Britain and King Menelik. of Abyss
sinia, have been exchanged and that the
government hopes shortly to accredit a
direct representative at the Abyssinian
court. has given the greatest satisfac-
| ton, as helping to solve the question Of
the upper Nile.
In the meanwhile young Henry Cav
| endish, a distant relative to the Duke
| of DcvOnshirP. is preparing to start a
gain for Equatorial Africa accompanied
| by Lieutenant Andrews. eight British
officers and Mr.. DOdson. who was the
! American explorer Mr.. Cavendish will
take with him 400 armed men and q
number Of rapid fire guns. As his obicc-
| tive Is the Junction of the White Nike
and the SObat river, at Sobat. the pur-
pose of the expedition. it will readily h.
seen. irs to cut off the French from
reaching FashOda. which is only short
distance north of Sobat.
While Mr.. Cavendisll is personally de-
} fraying the cost of the expedition, ii is
known that he has been in frequent
i communication with the Marquis IF
Salisbury through the Duke of Devon
shire. 80 it is safe to say the expedition
is under government auspices.
The news from christina on Friday
Iost that the committee appointed 10
draw nh proposals for the better regu-
lotiop of the relations between Norway
and Sweden has been unable to reach
! an agreement. indicates that the tension
/ ba+wcnn Sweden and Norway is fast APP
nroocbing the swapping point. and it is
statad that on the frontier, the arming
Of both parties is rapidly progressing,
hoth sides preparing for war.
The health of King Humhert of Italy
;e AGAIN cousing unPasiness, the fainting
fits having REQUIRED.
mo Corrpro. organ of the CaristS.
discussing the visit of the United
! States bottleship Maine to Havana, eX-
nresses the belief THAT the Spanish pubic
! is iustifiably alarmed. adding;
| GAS a fact, it is the government IT.