The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1900-12-15
THE HAY, PAUACEFOTE TREATY
Great Britain Win Not Agree 20 AnS
More CSne~s.ioas-Wni Back Lis
hsa'. Contention. Against the
H0llandeFA.

London, Dec. 9,--Ihe Nicaragua canal
creates only mild interest in England. The
cable dispatches dealing with the prob
able action OF the United States senate
in its deliberations are read BY the gen
eral public with comparative interest and
less understanding. The report that the
british government has IN any way IN.
dieated its willingness to accept the
amended treaty Is utterly false. In fact
the indications, such rs they are, point to
Great Britain refusing to eonsider any
amendment TO what the foreign oifice al
ready believes to be generous eOnces-
SIGN.
To quote a high authority: 1--WE would
not have abrogated the Clayton Bulwer
treaty Tor any other nation IN the world.
Unless all the traditions OF British for.
elgn policy are reversed, fail to see how
We can afford to give away any more ad-
vantages, even to America"
| No official representation or inquiries
have been made to the foreign office,
where it is pointed out that is impOs-
sible to form any final Judgment until the
senate acts. That war, or even sen
Gus misunderstanding, could ever result
from such u cause receives no official OF
public credenee
! Though the trouble between Holland and
Portugal can scarcely result in war, it Is
lar more serious and interesting than gen
orally regarded here. Great Britain Is cen
l s.yp..l in, aH 49,,
appears On the surface, for the Associated
lresS learns that it is due to 4 British
protest To Portugal that the eNequatur Of
Herr POtt, the Dutch consul at Lorenzo
Marques, was Withdrawn and the visit oi
the British fleet to Portuguese waters Is
something more than a coincidence. The
Lisbon press frankly declares il was in
tended as a warning demonstration to
other nations to Keep their hands oil Port.
ugAl
The British officials also 10 not hesitate
~ admit their governments readiness to
back up the action which Portugal took
at its request. Hence Holland can do lit.
tie more than gracefully make the best
OF bad job unless she receives the sup
port OF some OF the great powers, which
Is very remote contingency.
The withdrawal Of The Netherlands
minister at Lisbon and the Portuguese
minister at The Hague, though officially
behttled, is the sequence Of serious fric.
ton, the details of which were known t.
the British secretary Of state for foreign
affairs, the marquis Of Lansdowne, some
weeks ago. The unusual action Of send
ing the whole British channel squadron to
Lisbon is regarded as being one Of the bold
est and most successful strokes Of aggres-
siye diplomacy in recent history. With
Great Britain showing such a strong hand
the absent ministers are likely to return
to their posts shortly and the incident will
probably only produce an effective i'm
preston of the fact that an alliance ex
lists between Portugal and Great Britain
II was effected when the question Of land
ing South African troops at Beira, POr-
tuguese South Africa, came up, and was
announced at the time in these dis
patches. In this connection ii il interest.
ing to note that the French press regards
the whole affair as a fresh menace t.
France, and that the Spanish papers in.
terpret it similarly as regard their O~n
country.