The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-01
Old World IS WATCHING EVENTS N THE ORIENT
SOUTH AFRICAN HOSPITAL HOR-
R0RS SHARE IN PUBLIC
INTEREST
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Copyrighted by the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 30.-The spectacle of a
man of American birth, William Ashmead
Burdette-Coutts. Conservative member
Tor Westminster, standing in the house
or commons amid a storm of cheers and
1eers and exposing to the world the hor-
rors and abuses that followed in the wake
of British victories, proved as dramatic
as 1t was unprecedented. For over two
hours AIT. Burdette-Coutts, once known
as the young husband of the millionaire
baroness" but now growing gray with
his fifty years, his face bronzed by the
sun Of South Africa, and his hands
clenched nervously behind him, COM
manded the attention of the hostile ma
Jority of the house and drew a succession
OF greWsome pictures that in their ghast-
illness eclipsed the horrors of the Crimean
war.
Public opinion seems fairly divided be-
tween two verdicts. First, that the war
office is guilty of criminal negligence; sec
Ond, to reserve all judgments until the
parliamentary committee reports. Mr..
Burdette-Coutts suddenly has become one
of the most prominent men of the hour,
and the Government has to face the agita-
ton that has stirred the country to an
almost greater extent than did the de-
claratiOn of war itself
CHINA SITUATION
Great Britain seems to have settled
down to the belief that the ministers at
Pe4Ilng Will not come to much harm. The
ordinary observer agrees with Lord Sails
bury S view, that if the ministers are safe
now, as there seems to be every reason
to believe they are, that they will not
be likely to be harmed in the future
Having lived through the troubles so far
their chances certainly have improved.
However there ic -a1a in
public desire to have them camped with
in the protection of a European force
All sorts Of far Eastern experts express
countless opinions, from the view that
the partition Of China is bound to follow
the present troubles to the equally def
mite opinion that the partition of China
is no nearer than it was before. Definite
information is very scarce. Vice Ad-
miral Seymour's unsuccessful trip Inland
has brought upon him many censures 1t
is mainly held that he should not have
left the fleet.
COAL PRICES ADVANCE.
Thanks partly to the Boxers and partly
to the Beers, coal is going up rapidly.
Japan, Russia and the United States are
all ordering large quantities from English
stocks, which are already depleted by the
immense demands for transport service
to the Cape. Coal promises to reach rec
ord prices this winter, unless, as some
merchants think, importations can be Sc
cured from America. Already 900 tons
of American bunker coal have been land
ed at Glasgow and sold cheaper than the
fuel could be got from Scotland.
The probability of a big rise in wheat
owing to the shortage of the American
crop is also worrying the British business
world, for, while the supplies are still
coming in plentifully from Argentina,
the Indian crop is quite insufficient to
meet its normal demands.
According to the Daily Chronicle the
American claimants to the millions left
by an Australian squatter are wasting
their efforts, as the estate has already
been cut up among couple of dozen of
relatives in Australia, who easily succeed
ed in proving their relationship in the
local courts.