The sun., 1900-08-27
EUROPE WATCHING Us.
Great Interest Taken In Our Policy
Toward China.
FRANCE EXPECTS A WAR.
That Country Thinks She May Soon
De Called Upon to Fight England.
EEgIishmen Still Harping
About Our Jockeys.

London, Aug. 26.-The policy of the
United States toward China is watched
here with more interest than is that Of
any other country, for Englishmen be-
lieve somehow or other that in the trou-
bles ahead America will be the only
power with interests parallel to theirs
The Spectator, discussing the frailty of
the ties connecting the powers, says:
Continental statesmen look askance
at the new force, America, whose limits
they do not clearly discern and which,
for example, can send black troops to
China, and they mutter words about the
possible Anglo-SaXon understanding and
would if they could gladly postpone all
action so as to have more time for re-
Election and combination. only, you see,
Peking is in flames, the Chinese Semira-
mis- is on her way to Segan and II Rus
sian general publicly reports that the
Amur now flows through Russian terri
tory. Japan has been helping Europe
but English observers are uncertain what
her statesmen intend"
France Preparing For War.
"rhat the Frcrch government is pro
pairing for war there can no longer be
any doubt" This first sentence III long
article in The Pail Mall Gazette of
Wednesday on "rhc Imminence of War
With France" is the subject of serious
speculation in most of the periodicals.
The Speaker considers French inva-
sion nightmare, hut fears that the per-
sistent fomenting of national hatred is
ominous and may precpitate a conflict.
Tho Spectator says it does not wish to
encourage the scare, but it voices eau
hof sfpn oh chn ha
maintained over the national defenses.
According to present arrangements, the
queen will hold council at Osborne on
Aug. 81, Mr.. Henry Labouchere asserts,
at which the dissolution of parliament
will be sanctioned with the customary
formalities, and the general election will
be held early in October.
English correspondents at Paris in ex-
planning why France, though bestowing
decorations on the representatives of all
the other principal countries at the ex-
position, omitted so to honor those Of
Great Britain, say that the British com
missioner, when requested to designate
those worthy of decoration, replied that
the laws of his country did not allow him
or his official associates to accept deco
rations.
The introduction of the young king of
Spain to his subjects in the northwest
ern seacoast provinces was attended by
degree of good feeling not before seen
in Spain in generations. Even in the
provinces where socialistic and dynastic
discomfort is always verging on insur-
rection the people showed patriotic pleas
ure and desire to forget the past disas-
tiers and accept the new order of things.
DIR. John b. Crosby, one of the health
commissioners of New York city, who
had been in London for a week. has
gone to Vantage 10 look over Mr.. Rich
ard Crokcr's stables. In talking with a
representative of the press DIR. Crosby
said:
81 am making a cusory investigation
of the Paris and London sanitary CON
ditions. Though the general statistics
are already well known, l am more than
ever satisfied that New York not only
has the lowest death rate but is sani-
tarily far ahead of any European city
have visited. Whether this is entirely
due to the natural advantages Of the
tide swept shores or the natural habits
and intelligence of Americans it is diff
cult to determine, but the fact remains
that the hygienic conditions Of New
York are uneXcelled by any city Of con-
siderable Size in the world"