The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1900-07-30
THIN NEWS OF ENGLAND
Firm Belief That Foreign Ministers
at Peking Are Dead.
QUICK ACTION is URGED.
europe liz Need OF Our Gold-seriOus
Attack ON steerage Department mt
Ellis Island by n London Paper.
Marlborough Home Again.

London, July 29-The week of rumors,
ndicts and Chinese protestations by the
score ends with England as firmly con-
WINGED as ever that the foreign ministers
at Picking have been massacred. Not
only that, but in the determined attempts
on the part of the Chinese authorities to
convince the world Of the truth of their
assertions prominent organs Of public
opinion are unanimous in seeing n des-
perate plot on the part of the Chinese
government to delay the day Of retribu-
tion in the hope that the powers will be-
come imbr6iled among themselves. The
Chinese declarations have, in fact. aggra-
waited rather than ameliorated the feeling
against the eastern empire.
Mr.. Archibald Ross Colquhoun the dis
8inguished geGgrapher and correspondent
Of The Times during the Franco Chinese
war Of 1851, in an able review of the
situation trenchantly declares: "What we
want is NOT knowledge. however pro-
found, Of the Chinese. rather would we
strengthen the hands of Admiral Soy
Inouf or some other commander, throw
ourselves boldly into tie breach and. il
necessary, take some risks No big thing
has evrf been done without certain
amount of risk"
AlF. i1tEIidfd CHlN, lIlHl cUIlOuSiy clpV-
er playwright. comes out with Il scathng
protest against retaliation, such as the
suggested execution of Prince Tuan. the
razing of Chinese cities, etc., (which"
Mr.. Shaw says, "characterizes the most
horrible, cowardly mobocracy that can
be imagined. Revenge under any ex-
tremitits Of provocation must be abso-
lutely barred"
Gloomy PresRge.
Quietly but steadily Japan's three war
vessels building at Elswick are being
pushed toward completion. The Idzumo,
n powerful armored cruiser. is nearly |
ready, and 600 Japanese sailors are on |
board of her patiently waiting the word |
TO sail. The average opinion is that they |
will be needed for deadlier conflict than
the suppression of the Boxers. Even the
unhysterical Spectator pessimistically in
clines to the belief that the interests at |
stake in the far east are too varied and
conflicting to enable the powers to in
definitely preserve the thin ice of har-
dnony on which they are standing at
present.
With the shipment of men to the China
sea comes the need of money. European
nations must have gold 1T will become
necessary" says The Statist, ITO raise
the value of money in London to a point
where gold will be attracted from the
United States, and unless the Bank of
England affords facilities to import the
rate will have to rise to Il comparatively
high figure before gold arrives. On the
other hand, if the bank is willing to give
facilities early imports of gold from the
United States may occur. The arrival
of two or three millions of gold from
NnNa. Vpp1y Ia, e.
issue of British and other government
loans. That the United States can spare
a considerable amount of gold is certain"
Rosebery an AIarmist Again.
With the perils of possible internation-
al complications weighing upon him, the
Earl Of Rosehery has once more appear
ed in the role of an aarmist. His ex-
.citable speech in the house Of lords on
Friday, with its noticeable personal bit
tcrness against lord Salisbury, has not +,
tended to improve the chances of that F.,
section Of the Liberals which is strug-
Cling 50 hard 10 dominate the party pol ;
icy in Lord I(osehery's interests nor did ,
the Earl Of Kimberly, who usually is !
warm supporter of the cX-plemier, hest ,
tate to disuppravc Of his suggestion that !
the commander in chief should assume 4
some Of the functions now performed by
the secretary of war. Unhappy the (
country" declared Lord Kosebery, +,
(which depends upon its past" But
Lord Salisbury, with an optimism ]
contrasting with his recent APP :
peal for the formation of rifle clubs, i,
swept doubts and fears away and with !,
jocularity mingled with accrbity squelch- {
ed the unfortunate Earl of Wemyss, who
had ventured to suggest that the safety
of the country was menaced.
Steerage Horrors. n
A serious attack has been made in the
columns of The Express against the
treatment of emigrants arriving at New :
York. That paper sent representative IN
in the steerage of the steamer La Cham n
payne, who, in the course of a series of q
articles entitled 1.-THE Closed Door," has 7
been giving English readers vivid pic. +
lures of the horrors of a steerage pas. n
sage. The writer, however, chiefly de-
votes himself to the alleged brutality h
aud corruption of officials at the barge H
office and on Ellis island. The latter the q
writer describes as a prison where, he .,
emigrants are beaten and i,
abused worse than cattle. The Ellis is n
land warders are called ''the dirtiest ruff il
fans in New York" Medical examina- h
lion of emigrants, it is alleged, is made n
without any regard to ordinary principles
IF hygiene. The reporter says the In n
vincibles Mullet and Fitzharris were :"
thousand times better treated than 9TH $,
,r emigrants, not excluding feeble wo- :"
men and children. He gives numerous
instances, with names. An idea of the Sc
attack can be gained from the following m
account of a supper on Ellis island: eve =,
passed in a long line round the room. A G
nan with filthy hands filed our hats or "
with moldy prunes. An Fl
,ther thrust two Jumps of bread in our q
hands. Supervising the distribution was
| foul mouthed Bowery tough who dane
ID upon the table and poured forth upon
rs torrents of obscene, blasphemous il
lbuse. l saw him drag one old man, a
ong bearded Polish Jew, past the bar d
eel of prunes by the hair of his face. | |
saw him kick another emigrant, Ger e
nan, on the head with heavy boot" a
Duke of Marlborough Home.
The Duke of Marlborough had a most '
interesting experience in South Africa Z
Ind, though participating in many fights 7
ind undergoing long marches, came :
; h ~. H.