New-York tribune., 1901-05-19

THE CHINESE PUZZLE.
LOOKING FOR WAYS AND MEANS OF Sc
CURING THE INDEMNITY.
WEARING DOWN THE BoER RESISTANCE IN
SOUTH AFRICA-DEATH OF LORD
ROSEBERY'S MOTHER.

SOUTH AFRICA-DEATH OF LORD
RosEBERY's MOTHER.
Copyright 1901: BY The New-York TribuueD
GBY CABLE TO TRIBUNEl
London. May 49, a. m.-The China situation
remains enveloped in fog, and there are no signs
that it will he cleared speedily The principle of
indemnity has been accepted. but ways and
means by which it be pain bafn the in
genuty of the financial experts. The Chinese
proposals for the payment in thirty annual in
stalments covered by moderate increase Of the
maritime customs are not satisfactory TO Ger
many but there is no ground for suspicion that
the Berlin Government is raising objections ca
priciously for the sake of prolonging the occu-
patton. The German Emperor and Count Won
waldersee are evidently eager to bring about
settlement. they weary Of the negotia-
tions but they insist upon having full guar
antee for the payment of the money with in
terest. The Chinese Government is not in haste,
and there is a practical reason for delay. The
Manchu dynasty represented the anti-foreign
feeling before Peking occupied and there
is evidence that it's influence has been i'm
paired by the disasters which have befallen the
Empire. 1t has succeeded in regaining pres
tige by allowing the negotiations to drag along.
by offering resistance TO the demands of the
powers. and by exhausting their patience, 1t
ing hostile to foreign influence and Of standing
tenaciously for Chinese interests
The arrival of nearly sixteen hundred volun-
teers at Southampton and the cordial welcome
offered to companies St. Martins Town
Hall and the Tower Hamlets incidents indi-
eating that the war is slowly but surely coming
10 an end. Dispatches from South Africa point
in the same direction. The best sign is the wan
Ine he in he fell
with purposeess operations. Bands Of guerillas
still standing out. but British commanders
are longer hampered by treacherous spies
and they have increased facilities for finding
out what is going and for making captures
of men. arms and stock. a fresh incursion of
Beers into Cape Colony is explained by the
cessity for obtaining supplies. and the number
Of raiders is insignificant II the remnants OF
the commanders are not overtaken when hotly
pursued. the British are gradually depriving
them Of horses and wearing them out by driving
them constantly from section TO section The
refuge camps are filled with whose
fathers, husbands and brothers are prisoners,
and whose ardOr for the Boer is yielding
TO intense longing for the return Of the burghers
Lord Kitchener's work cannot he brilliant, but
it is done mechanically and thoroughly. Dis
trict after district of the Transvaal and the
northern section of the Orange River Colony is
being swept. and the Beers are being harassed
by constant movement.
The reports of scientific parties observing the
eclipse of the are still incomplete. and
less satisfactory than had been hoped. although
some successful photographs of the corona have
been taken
DR.. Conan Doyle was one Of the tallest crick-
eters in the three days match at Lords and
was on the winning Marylebone side. his field
ing being effective against Leicestershire.
The death of Lord ROseberys mother. the
Duchess Of Cleveland. at the advanced age of
eighty-two. is reported from Germany. She
was the author of The Roll of Battle Abbey"
and industrious reader Lord Rosebery in
heriting from her his strong literary abilities
l. y. F.
GERMAN SHIP TO SEARCH FOR PIRATES