The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-12-14
THE HAY -PAUNCEFOTE TREATY.
WILL LET 1T STAND AS 1T is.
Great Britain VIII Not Agree to ANY
More Concessions-Wili Back Lis
bon's Contentious Against tn.
HoIIandcrs.

London, Dec. 9.-The Nicaragua canal
creates only mild interest in England. The
cable dispatches dealing with the prob
able action of the United States senate
i'll its deliberations are read by the gen
eral public with comparative interest anu
less understanding. The report that the
British government has IN any way IN
Dictated its willingness to accept the
amended treaty is utterly false In fact
the indications, such as they are, point to
Great Britain refusing to consider any
amendment to what the foreign Office al
ready believes to be a generous oonces-
SIGN.
To quote high authority: "We would
not have abrogated the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty for any other nation III the world.
| Unless all the traditions OF British Tor
eign policy are reversed, fail to see how
we can afford to give away any more adj
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 serl
GUS misunderstanding, could ever res~i.
from such cause receives no official or
public credence.
Though the trouble between Holland and
Portugal can scarcely result in war, it is
far more serious and interesting than gen
orally regarded here. Great Britain is con
cerned in the affairs more deeply than
appears ON the surface, for the Associated
Press learns that it is due to a British
protest to Portugal that the eXequatur OF
Herr Pott, the Dutch consul at Lorenzo
Marques, was withdrawn and the visit OF
the British fleet to Portuguese waters i'
something more than a coincidence. The
Lisbon press frankly declares it was in
tended as a warning demonstration t
other nations to keep their hands oil Port
ugal.
The British officials also do not hesitate
=, to admit their governments readiness t.
\ back up the action which Portugal tool
at its request. Hence Holland can do lit
tie more than gracefully make the hes
of a bad lob unless she receives the sup
port of some of the great powers, whicl
is very remote contingency.
The withdrawal OF The Netherand
= minister at Lisbon and the Portuguese
: minister at The Hague though ofiiciall
belittled, is the sequence of serious frlC
ton, the details of which were known t
the British secretary of state for foreig
affairs, the marquis OF Lansdowne, som
Z weeks ago. The unusual action of send
e ing the whole British channel squadron
4 Lisbon is regarded as being one of the bolC
10 est and most successful strokes OF aggre'
10 sive diplomacy in recent history. Wit
Great Britain showing such strong han
the absent ministers are likely to retur
to their posts shortly and the incident WI
y probably only produce an effective III
preston of the fact that an alliance e.
: = lists between Portugal and Great Britai
" 1t was effected when the question of lan'
~ ing South African troops at Beira, Pc
tuguese South Africa, came up, and WI
- announced at the time in these di
= patches. In this connection it is interes
: ing to note that the French press regar'
y the whole affair as a fresh menace
:. France, and that the Spanish papers i
~ terpret it similarly as regard their ow
country.
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