The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-15
ALL THOUGHT ON CHINA
LONDON HAS NO OTHER TOPIC
THAT CAN DISTRACT ATTEN-
TION FROM SUBJECT
WORST FULLY APPREHENDED
Even the Expose of Hospital Scan
daI I'm South Africa Fails to
Lead the Public Mind
From China.

AS the days of silence drag into weeks
! the public tension and anxiety increase.
| There is a feeling of gratitude here for
| the strenuous efforts the United States
| is making to compel China to give Minis
| ter Conger a chance to cable a message
from Picking, and while faint hopes are
| entertained that they will be successful
1t is generally felt that some such eff
fort might well have been attempted by
the British foreign office.
! One of the clearest announcements
upon China comes from Archibald Ross
! ColQuohn the well known correspondent
! of the London Times, whose long stay in
the far East has made him an authority
on the subject. Mr.. Colquoign says that
If rescue is attempted and the Europeans
are alive yet, they will be massacred, and
If they are abe to hold out until the re-
t volt is over and indelible impression will
be made upon the Chinese mind that their
escape would be due, not to the strength
of Great Britain, but to their own for
bearance He adds:
Foreign interference was responsible
for the former assault. 1 am convinced
a determined assault on the native city
! of Tien Tsin would clear the situation
and open the way to Picking.
Mr.. Burdette-Coutts' South African
! hospital service exposures continue to ex-
cite criticism. He explains his OBJ
lection to Mr. Cunningham being
selected by Mr. A. ]. Balfouf
commission, by the statement that Mr.
Cunningham, although a professor of
| Dublin university, Is also an examiner in
| the medical department, and thus an en-
ploye of the war office
Mr.. Burdette-Coutts' objection Is gen
orally admitted, and Mr.. Balfours method
of selection generally criticised.
The only other feature of the week at
Westminster was the setback to John
Kensit, the anti-ritualist crusader, who
has frequently interrupted religious serv-
ices, and his followers, by the lord chan
cellor, Earl Halsbury, who assured DR..
Temple, archbishop of Canterbury, that
there was a statute which prescribed Sc
! we're penalties for the brawling and grave
| church dissertation of which he complain
ed The police, apparently, are not aware
OF the statute, which, curiously enough.
was enacted during the reign Of Bloody
Mary. After the chancellors stern
warning it is probable that the Kensits
Will not be so aggressive in the future.
POPULAR CHOICE.
The appointment of the Earl of Hone
town TO be first governor general of the
federated Australian colonies, at a salary
oA @4oVoV, meets with general approval.
AS governor Of Victoria the earl became
Immensely popular In Western Australia,
and the manner in which he filed the du-
ties OF lord chamberlain has greatly added
TO the young peers reputation
Inc Earl OF Denbigh is expected to s1c-
ceed TO the royal Office Qord chamber
IAN OF her majestys househoId) which
Hopetown's promotion makes vacant.
!hough Australian federation is an es
taolshed fact owing to the queens sig
nature being affixed to the bill and
through the government the govarnor
general has been appointed, the location
OF the capital of the federation has NOT
peen decided upon. BY the terms of the
constitution 1t is to be in New South
Wales. distant no less than 100 nr5Rs
from Sydney The city rivalry makes
the final settlement matter of grave
importance. When the matter is decided
hundred square miles will be taken
from New South Wales, becoming tha
property of the commonwealth. on the
same plan as Washington and the Dis
tr1ct of Columbia. In the meanwhile
Melbourne will be the temporary seat ne
! the legislature
Heart burnfngs have been caused bv
the presence of John Lawrence -Carev
Irish Nationalist member from College
Green, division OF Dublin. at the queen 8
garden party. He was the only national
list who accepted her ajesty's invita-
ton. and is a staunch Parnellite. In
fact, he served four months in Killarney
1all and for four days in winter was left
stark naked on a plank bed because he
refused to wear prison clothing. He an
peared at buckingham palace Wednes-
day, Immediately attired and accom-
panied by his aristocratic wife, whom
he married since the Killarney DAYS. and
VINO is immensely wealthy. Mr. Carew
is now having to to make many explana-
tons to his fellow Nationalist.
SWIFT TORPEDO BOAT.
BY making thirty-seven knots over a
measured mile the turbine torpedo boat
Viper has broken all records and has
quite fulfilled the expectations of the
builder, Parsons, who believes turbines
can achieve the same results as larger
craft
The only vessels to be built under this
! weeks supplementary naval estimates
are five torpedo destroyers The rest Of
the 81, 100000 appropriation goes for stores.
supplies and the acceleration of ships
now building
AhS Dlll1SH duHlIIdIly report COntrO-
verts the criticisms passed upon the
Belleville boilers. The report shows a
determination to adhere to the Belleville
boilers
The performance of the American
schooner-yacht Endymion, owned bv
George Lloyd Day, which this week
! broke the transatlantic sailing yacht
| record. has received many econimums in
England. Her time from Boston to
Cowes was thirteen days and twenty
hours. A writer in the Morning Post
lengthily contends that the American
athletes successes gained last week was
not due to inferiority of their English
compe titors, as many declare. but was
derived from scientific training
Among those who have taken places in
Scotland for the shooting season. which
is drawing near, are Mr.. Astor and Clar-
ence Mackay, while ]. r. Keene has se-
cured a lease of Melton house, near New
market.
A L. Johnson, of Brooklyn, the rail-
way man who is here, devoted the week
to studying London's new electric under
ground railway He said to a representa-
tive of the Associated Press:
II am more confident than ever that
London is the greatest field for American
electrical development. I expect to see
an enormous increase in electric trans
throughout England in the next few
months"