Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-12-01
THE CHINESE MIDDLE
England as Wei as the unitao
States Anxious to Get
q Out of 1t

| London, Nov. 24.-The pessimis,,,
hected by the Washington specials doa,
| Ing with China finds a keen ooba
Great Britain's cabinet. The d.
! forohoding that the United States vii
| compelled to withdraw from the con-.
ct the powers is only one of the co,,.',
of this feeling, for the British minisfg,.,
are now inclined to believe the praso,..
lines of negotiation cannot result sa,i.
| factorily
The United States" said an official ~,
the foreign Office to representative 80
the Associated press. "cannot he a
more anxious than England to GET an, -
the China muddle. The cabinet mipiSto,,,
are reluctantly coming to believe tho,
the endeavorS to compel China 10 puniSj
individual offenders are merely waste nf
time. Death by edict is Il farce ana !,
fairy tale. The powers forces now ir
emma are utterly Inadequate tn ovrrr,,,,
me country and enforce their demands
England has nc intention of auenentin.,
ner troops to such an extent ms y-o,iI
be necessary for the Europeans thpm.
selves to undertake to infiict punishmnnr
1t looks very much as if we shall hav.
TO climb down. The only question i ho,'.
can 1t be done with the best dignity and
under circumstances giving the most sat
isfactory results.
indefinite Defamation.
The policy of indefinite decimatio,,
which the American journals seem to M,
tribute to Germany. is not in the slight
est shared by Great Britain" This VIZ
is not that of majority of the British
press. who, without taking pains to finJ
ont the inner opinion Of the cahinet gar
orally condemn what they are pleased IA
call the weakened policy Of America
The seizure of the British steamer Ia
bora by the Colombian government off
Gals at Panama is not regarded seriousI,.
here. The British gunhOat Pheasant viii
Investigate the matter and in due course
of time Colombia will probably be asked
for an explanation. But the affair is nor
likely to produce any striking develon-
mcntS.
The request of the United States am
baSsadOr for the suppression of the Fill
Pine, junta at Hong Kong has been but
in the hands of the colonial office. II
will probably take some weeks to aScel.
tain the facts, with doubtful results. An
official says: Hong Kong. of course. is
part of free country and we cannot
take TOO arbitrary steps. even to please
America. Most of the international
plots are Matched right here in London.
hut we are quite powerless to suppress
them"
Holiday for Miner.
The persistent reports that Sir Alfred
Miner, the British high commissioner in
South Africa, will be invaded home.
permanently, are groundless. He will he
afforded q holiday as soon as feasible
lie IS the last man the government con
templates withdrawing from South AZ
flca ana the state of his health by no
means Justlties the rumors.
LondOn's new lord mayor. Frank
Green takes very radical and friendly
view of the American invasion of the
cltN hnance, trade and transportation
IL Is merely matter of utlitarianism.
sald ne TO an Associated press repre-
sentative. An American company is
bound to come here. and | welcome any.
thlnS tending to bring the two nations
the most good, even though it NAV az
pear to result to the advantage of one
OF them Together England and Amer
ga are more powerful in every way than
the rest of the world
Regarding the placing of government
ioans N America, patriotism, naturally,
c .,,ail,s 4. me e say English finaneieis
Americans give better terms, why, let
them have them by all means. An
things being equal, | see no reason why
America should not be allowed to 81
scribe to the loan which is likely to be
asked for at the resumption of Parla.
meht' and If by open competition she tan
ingS will exist IN the city"
Undermining London.
Hot on the heels of Charles T. Yerke>'
underground railroad scheme come the
announcements of SO many projected
railroads that London may be said To
have become the victim of the tube ma
MIA. If all the companies are allowed to
operate half of London would be under
mined.
Parliamentary sanction will be applied
for III the case of no less than ten epg-
iric tubes, necesSitatinS the deposit al
t1,WU000 as parliamentary guarantee.
l. is likely that several of these will new
er materialize; but. as y. ii. Loutcrhach.
who is here in the interest of Mr.. HcIhcs,
points out. there is no reason why Lon
don should suffer from lack of tranSpof-
iation facilities when capital is going
begging and the electrical science of III"
world is at its beck and call.
\ National Art Gallery.
The announcement that Francis How
ard. the son of Mrs T. L. O'COnnor hy
leading artists in his visit to the United
States in order to induce the United
States government to establish a national
art gallery, appears TO be premature The
Daily Chronicle says he has. it is true
asked MessrS. Sargent and Whistler
WHITTIER Il ndJlOHdI SdilcGE Hdu tIttl az
prevail and both made an affirmative r.
ply. But there is no question of an
agency and hardly one of an advocaH
of national galleries in the sense Of in
ternational galleries, which the leading
cities of America already have. and
purely patriotic collection. III which Ben
jamin Vests would be fianked by WIS
Tiers would not prove particularly rNh.'-
arating.
Two dukes will soon arrive in the
United States. the Duke of MancheIitf
and his bride, who. with Mr.. Kruger. ha'
divided the honors of the week in pupIH'
interest. and the Duke Of Newcastle
who sails December 6. The latter III
tends to spend a few months in FLORIDA
returning in April. He will not he at
companied by the duchess.
All sorts of rumors are current ab"H
the Jockey club investigation into ~? ,g
Durham's charges against Lester hciA'
among which il the allegation that