Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-11-29
CANNOT ENFORCE THEIR DEMANDS
British Foreign Once ofaci.l Declares the
Powers Will Have to (:liM,, Down.

British Foreign Office Ofacisl Declares the
Powers Will Have to Climb Down.
London. Nov. 27..-(Copy1ight, 1900.
by the Associated Press.)-The pes
stmism reflected by Washington spe.
Gals dealing with China finds
a keen echo in Great Britains
cabinet. The gloomy foreboding that
the United States will be comb
PEELED to withdraw from the concert Of
the powers is only one of the causes os
this feeling. The British ministers are
now inclined to believe the present line
of negotiations cannot result satisfac-
torily.
The United States" said an official
of the foreign Office to representative
of the Associated Press, cannot be
any more anxious Tan England to get
out of the China muddle. .'he cabinet
ministers are reluctantly coming TO be-
lieye that the endeavors to compel
China to punish individual offenders
are merely d waste of time. Death by
edict is farce and fairy tale. The
powers forces now in China are ut
telly inadequate to cverrun the coun-
try and enforce their demands. Eng
land has no Intention of augmenting
her troops to such an extent as will be
necessary. III the Europeans themselves
Undertake to inflict punishment. 1t
looks very much as if we shall have to
climb down. The only question is how
can it le done with the best dignity
and under circumstances giving the
most satisfactory results.
The policy of indefinite decinia-
ton. which American journals seem to
attribute to Germany is not in the
slightest shared by Great Britain"
This view is not that of majority
of the British press, who, without talk
Ing pains to find out the inner opinion
of the cabinet, generally condemn what
they are pleased to call the weak
kneed policy" of America.
The seizure of the British steamer
Taboga by the Colombian government
officials at Panama is not regarded Sc
riously here. The British gunboat
Pheasant will Investigate the matter
and in due course of time Colombia
will probably be asked for an explaaa-
ton.
The Hong Kong ,tunta.
The request Of United States AM
Eassador Choate for the suppression of
the Filipino junta at Hong Kong has
been put in the hands of the colonial
office. 1t will probably take some
weeks to ascertain the facts, with
doubtful results. An official said:
Hong Korg, of course, is part of a
free country and we cannot take too
arbitrary steps even to Please America,
Most international plots are Matched
right here in london; but we are quite
poWerless to suppress tnem.''
Persistent reports that Sil. Alfred
Miner, British commissioner i'll South
Africa, will be invited home pernaa-
,nently are groundlcss. He will he af-
tforled a holiday as soon as feasible.
He is the last man the government
Eontemplates Withdrawing from South
Africa, and the state of his health by
no means justiies the rumor.
Lord Mayor Not Alarmed
Iondon's new mayor, Frank Green
takes q very radical and friendly view
of American invasion of the citys
finance, trade and transportation ut
is merely matter of utilitarianism,"
he said to a representative of the AS
ISOLATED Press. American capital is
bound to improve business here and
welcome warmly anything tending to
bring the two nations the most good.
even though it may appear to result
only to the advantage of one of them.
Together England and America are
more powerful in every way than the
rest of the world.
"Regarding placing gowernmentloans
jim America, patriotism naturally COM
pels me to say English financiers
should have first chance; but If Amel-
cans give better terms, why, let them
have them by all means.