New-York tribune., 1900-05-20
WHAT LONDON TALKS OF.

London. May 10.
| RUSSIA'S AGGRESSIVE MOVE-The success
, full turn that affairs have taken in South Africa
is most fortunate for Lord Salisbury, his weak
est point his foreign adminstrati ton, had threat
! ened to become all too prominent topic. The
news that Russia had secured coal depot In
! Corea, announced May is. In dispatch to
! THE Times from Peking. has raised storm of
ton. and many of the Conservative organs
have declared this is merely another unfortu
instance of the Premiers utter incapabltty of
protecting British interests in the Far East. Among
those who study Chinese questions the belief OBJ
tans that Russia's latest move is direct breach
of contract with and blow against Great Britain
with a grave crisis which pusilla nmous diplomacy
stance, openly advocates Immediately sending
Russa forego the sdvantages she is alleged to
have secured in contravention of the agreement or
in bad humor the matter. it is said on good
ss r Of Great has
to take any alarming action in the immediate
inquiries and passive aid to Japan in the protests
she will doubtless make.
PATHETIC REPORTS FROM INDIA-The Sec
retary of State for India, Lord George Hamilton,
has granted The Associated Press permission to in
spect the unpublished official correspondence re-
ceived up to date in his department dealing with
the Indian famine. The mass of reports that came
in by the last mail alone the hosts of civil
servants who striving desperately to stay the
onward march of the devastating evils that threat
sap the life of India almost battles condensa-
tiou From all parts of the great heterogeneous
country British agents, commissioners. residents
and their assistants, officers famine duty native
Dewans CPremiers) and those with other titles
never heard of by the outside world except IN
Kipling's books dutifully detail the conditions
which prevail in their particular districts. their
language being chiefly confined to the dry sentences
and tabuated statistics, upon which the orthodox
Indian official is sucked. Yet now and again
there is revealed by reason of the very strength
OF this same verbiage and official reticence
wealth of pathos and suffering which columns OF
vivid description could scarcely convey What for
instance could better tell the tale of sorrow than
the report of the Commissioner of Kherwara. in
Rajpootana. With careful regard for the resula-
tons governing communications he abruptly begins:
Crops-Pra cticaly nil.
cattle-AlI dead
Fodder-Nil. RS,
relief works or dying
Crime-Abnormal.
With a frankness found in few of these grew
some documents submitted to The Associated Press,
he continues:
have tried Desperately to keep rtf the M Tsa
lent me BY the Merwar at Darbar. with which to
purchase grain, l have miserably failed ara nun;
have to be refused.
From all the Commissioners of the native States
the same cry goes up. There the distress and suf-
ferfng severe than in any other part of
InoIa yet native States, by virtue of the
constitution, dependent on the British relief
system, and are not entitled to share OF Govern
ment charity, they pay no taxes for imperial
support.
However Sir Charles Bernard, head of the Indian
Office Bureau of Revenue that the British are
advancing to these States loans wherever feasible
and says they will come in for their full snare OF
From those Commissioners OF native states VINO h
officials. come most distressing reports as to
the condition of their territories not yet hinted at
narrowing documents are tnged with hopefulness
born OF the pluck that makes the indian eiv ser sn
pestience: One Resident of Rajpootana reports
t9as Of abont nf tells 1 hm thai only is died
Of starvation in March Yet adds & the Residgn dent,
deaths the indirect result of insufficient nour-
In the course of CHEEKY report the Resident Of
- M m ' in ne ths
a h9Ps STATE Of arng
WhiIe another Resdenr Supplements this CHASTITY
record 81 wholesale mortality by remarking that at
the relief works 119 died between February % and
March 2 and this has no bearing on the nroads
57l died at Naghpore during March.
ports that the joriy Of fatalities were not pre-
@ by Of the as Sit at Re es work
day long draw their Pay eat Fl fun meal Ia ana b die
They will not go to hospital.
6d eo.a add at the he f FSa fy T9f sf the
famine there are st Other evils Frequently men
the Dacots, who are raidng what few cattle
left, and the refugees who. TO quote the Commits
States, have abandoned their children. and who
cannot even tell us the village whence they came
They are supported by the already impoverished
people of Kherwara.
All the foregoing refers to the territory of India
indirectly governed by Great Britain in what is
known as the British districts where there are
where the famine is supposed to be less viruient
QUEENS DRAWING ROOM.-At this weeks
Drawing Room. chiefly owing to the absence ef
the Queen, there was not nearly such crush or
brilliant spectacle as on the previous occasion In
until late in the afternoon in cramped carriages,
women found they could get good positions by be-
ginning the vigil as late as ! O'Clock
CROKER UNDER FIRE.-One of the curious
features of the last few days is the persistency
with which THE Express has kept up campaign
against Richard Croker, of New-York. Unlike the
Duke of Orleans Mr.. Croker remains sereney
passive, neither showing any signs of giving up his
residence in England nor writing self-exeusing let
ters. A correspondent telegraphed hin. him asking 4
whereupon Mr. Croker telegraphed back II don't
know what you refer to- Am well, apparently
thinking tnat nothing more serious could come up
Than reiterated reports of his dea tn
UNSEASONABLE WEATHER.-While parts of
the United States have been sweltering. England
and most of Europe returned to winter furs and
the heaviest overcoats this week. Northeast winds
tated the fruit BLOSSOMS in the conntT1 and tha
prospects of the orchards decidedly unfavorable
TO REVIVE AN IRISH PEERAGE--The Barry
more peerage will be revived in favor of the Right
Hon. Arthur Hugh Smith Barry, chairman of the
National Union of Conservative Associations 1T
became extinct In 1924 with the death of the six
teenth Earl Barrymore, who