New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-09-15
THE NEWS OF LONDON.
NO PANIC FEAR OF ANARCHISTS-THE
WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA-A WELSH
COAL CONDENSATION.
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London Sept 14.-The visitations Of European
rulers have been obscured by the American
catastrophe There many differences but
few hints respecting the conferences Of the two
emperors at Dantzic. Count Bulow and
Count Lamsdorf may have talked about the
threatened tariff war and the settlement in
China, but the emperors. witty English
writer suggests probably found safer topic
than alliances. just two great squires when
/ dining together avoid the subject of the lawsuit
pending between them. These imperial meet
ings have been managed without any risk Of
anarchist conspiracy, and there is little ground
for the assertions made in the halfpenny press
that French nerves have been shaken by what
has occurred at Buffalo and that the army will
be massed between Dunkirk and Compiegne.
with the sentres doubled every few yards along
the railway line.
Equally inaccurate the sensational accounts
OF extraordinary precautions taken for the pro-
lection of the Duke of Cornwall in Canada.
Police safeguards never neglected when
royal figures are employed in public functions
or are making Journeys, but there Is nothing
like panic Of terror at police headquarters
either here OF in any European capital The
anarchists are known and watched In every
European centre. and spies among them to
betray their secrets wherever there Is precon-
certed plotting. The civilized world Is not yet
at the mercy of the enemies of all government.
Black specks are not floating before the eyes of
European sovereigns and their Ministers of
State.
The expiration OF the period proclaimed by
Lord Kitchener for the technical continuance of
hostilites in South Africa is marked by a re-
vival of one of the mysteries of the Boer
pdign. This is he Of Poe
plies. Ammunition ought to have been ex-
hausted long ago. even If extraordinary precau-
tons were taken to provide enormous stock
of war material before the opening of HOSTILE
ties. II has been suspected military circles
for long time that rifles. ammunition and
other supplies have been smusged into Delagoa
Bay and secretly delivered the Beers, and
the seizure OF large quantities Of contraband
of war on Portuguese territory tends to explain
the marvellous ability of the guerillas to con-
tinue fighting when every base of military sup
plies has been closed. The right Of search can
not be exercised in neutral territory so long
as the Beers allowed belligerent rights 1t
Is believed by many influential men that the
status OF the Beers will be officially changed by
fresh proclamation next week
Another subject is attracting the attention Of
business men. This is the organization Of a
great Welsh coal combination controlling 80
per cent of the production. by a pooling
rangement or fusion of interests, similar to the
arrangements made by the mine owners Of
Westphalia. This Is of the earliest
quences of the successful formation of Ameri-
can combinations in coal. iron and steel and
will be accompanied. unless all signs fail. by
corresponding movement in the English and
Scotch iron and steel trade. Ironmasters have
been approaching one another for several
months. but have not yet succeeded in making
a working arrangement. l. n F.