Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-27
HERBERT PLEASED
His Trip to America is Like Co.,
 ing Home.
SAILED WITH LADY HERBERT

Big Tobacco War is Now at an End--
 British and American Interests Have
 Been AmaIgamated-L Streaming
 ing Down Mountain Side Makes
 Scene at Night Grand-No Earth
 quake in Sicily, But Probably Sub
 marine Eruption.
 London. Sept 27.-'Tt is just like going home" said Sir Michael Herbert to a representative of the Assoelated Press prior to sailing for New 1ofk to-day on the steamer Campania. The new British ambassador to the United States. who is accompanied by Lady Herbert. is eagerly anticipating his re- tVrn to America.
 .sIt always seems to me-" contlnued the ambassador, that Washington IS the only post in the British diplomatlc service where one feels thoroughly ar home. Of course our common lan- guage has a great deal to do with thls' but there is something even more thdu that Then. of course, 1 have always
  cans. I am looking forward hopefully to maintaining those friendly relations between the United States and Great Britain which have now come to be re yarded as normal Of course l am first of all an Englishman, or l should not be an ambassador. But if l am not living in my own country l would rather live in America
 Sir Michael evinced keen interest in the progress of the Roumanian negotia- lions. Ut is rather new departure for the United States, is it notg' he asked. We are backing it up. Yes, I have heard that Germany has disas sociated itself from Secretary Hays suggestion, but understand Great Britain is going to keep on backing it up."
 London, Sept 27.-Tne tobacco war has been ended by the amalgamation of the American and British interests. An official statement covering the de tails and subscribed by the officers of both combines will be given out this afternoon.
 Referring to the termination of the conflict, an official of the American company said to a representative of the Associated Press: Ut is the first com bination. to my mind. on right lines and one that assures real unity of fn- tereSts where powerful American and English concerns go out hand in hand to seek the trade of the rest of the world. It has been 9 difieultimatter, requiring the most careful consdera- tion. It was subject which could not be discussed in the press while they were in progress, but now that they are concluded we have decided to issue an authoritative statement to head off garbled accounts. Personally. I think the lines on which this combination is formed are destined to affect the larger field of general Anglo-American com mercial relations"
 London. Sept PA special dispatch from Rome. after confirming the re- ports that Stromboli has been in full eruption for some time past says: ''Fhe night scene was grand, but terri flying. Lava streamed down the mo5la. tain sides seawards, whilst huge bowl ders were hurled from the crater to a great height, falling into the sea fully two and a half miles from shore.
 "The director of the observatory at Mount Etna says there has been no earthquake in Sicily, but that probably there has been a submarine eruption between Stromboli and Sicily.
 One hundred and fifty corpses have been recovered 9t Modica. Hundreds of victims were drowned in the open country"