Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-14
A New Crisis in Oriental At
fairs Is at Hand.
ENGLAND is AROUSED.
Is Said to Have Asked Uncle
Sam to Aid Her.
TO THWART CARS PLANS.
The Occupation of Nanchuria by the
Russians Es said TO be Regarded by
English Statesmen Dangerous TO
the Other Powers.


Russians H. said TO be Regarded by
English Statesmen Dangerous 10
the Other Powers.
London, March "a crisis has
arisen in far eastern affairs, which,
in the opinion of the British govern
ment, is graver almost than the
troubles which originally turned the
eyes of the world toward the Orient.
In this crisis negotiations are going
on between the United States and
Great Britain with a view to thwart-
ing what both governments appear to
consider a determined attempt on
the part of Russia to plant herself
permanently in one of the richest
tracts of the Chinese empire.
The conference held Wednesday be-
tween United States Ambassador
Choate and Lord Lansdowne, the
foreign secretary, had nothing to do
with the Ncaraguan canal affair. To
quote from British official, the
Nicaragua controversy is a minor
matter compared with the present
situation" What Mr.. Choate did
was to receive from Lord Lansdowne
an important message declaring that
L.
Russa's declaration regarding Man
churia, as delivered to Sir Charles
Scott, British ambassador at st. Pet
ersburg, by Count Lamsdorf, and ask
ing the United States if it is prepared
to take joint action of such a decisive
nature that Russia would have no
alternative but to recede from her
position.
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States government instructed its vari-
Gus ambassadors to take similar
steps.
The answer of Secretary Hay has
apparently not yet been received in
London, although the fact that al
most concurrent instructions were is
sued from Washington is taken here
to be sufficient guarantee that Rus
sia's action in Manchurla will not be
tolerated by the United States.
Japan is relied upon to take a line
in harmony with the United States
and Great Britain.
Germany, in spite of the Anglo-Ger-
man compact, is regarded as rather
doubtful. owing to Emperor Williams
friendship for the ear. France, of
course, will side with her ally.
The significance of the present
phase can only be appreciated by
those cogniZant of the hitherto leth-
argic attitude of the British govern
ment regarding Russian action in
China. Within the last few DAYS all
this has changed. What a week or
two ago was pronounced only in line
with Russia's usual policy is now
termed "a grave and serious state of
affairs
Lord Lansdowne is using every eff
fort to bring the powers into line, in
order to present to Russia such a
menacing front that. without any
ambiguity regarding temporary or
other occupation, she may give up all
designs upon Manchuria.
What prompts the British foreign
Office TO take such an alarmist view
of circumstances usually looked upon
as fatalistic sequences, is the appre-
hension that Russi2. having held her
own in spite of the protest of the
ministers of the powers to the Chi
nese government, and having put her.
self on record as determined on at
least temporary occupation of Man
churia. will refuse to back down.
That she must do so Lord Lans-
hONIt tonSIueES Vital BOJn 1Of the
future of China and for the contin-
ued existence of the concert of pow
ers.
A feeling pervades inner circles
here that if Count Lamsdorf's expla-
nation is accepted by the powers,
Russia will be accorded a free hand
to take all she pleases, and the door
will be opened to any other power
aggressive enough to step in and an
mex Chinese provinces, under the
pretext of temporary occupation.
Berlin, March 9.-The German
press believes that Russias assuran-
ces regarding Manchuria to Sir
Charles Scott are insincere and in
tended to blind the world,
The National Zeitung frankly as
serts that this is their object.
Emperor kwang Su opposes the
Russo-Chinese agreement as to Man
churia,' says the Pekin correspon-
dent of the Daily Express, land has
instructed Ii Hung Chang to refer
Russia to the other powers"
Liu Kun vi, the viceroy of Nankin,
has appealed to Great Britain, Japan
and the United States, according to
the Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily Express, to assist China to re-
sist Russia's designs in Manchuria.