Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-13
The Colonial Secretary is in
 Harmony With Balfour
CHAMBERLAIN's FISCAL VIEWS

Thinks Government Should Have
 Power to Impose Taxation at Will
 The Situation in the Ear East is Said
 to Be Less Alarming To-Day,
 London, Oct 13.-Colonial Secretary Iyttlebon issued an election address to his constituents at Warwick and bennington this morning, in which he says he is in entire agreement with the fiscal change which Mir Balfour and MT Chamberlain together advo- cate"
 Mir Lyht1eton holds that the govern ment should be enabled to mitigate the inequality of foreign competition and to negotiate effectively for a reduction of foreign tariffs on British goods by having the power ito impose taxation on foreign manufactures. The colon ial secretary is convinced the empire would be further knitted together by strengthening the commercial ties of it's various parts by preferential tar ifs. To secure closer ties with the colonies involved readjustment of the taxes on food peculiarly affecting the poorer classes, who should have a full opportunity to ninutely and de- hberabely consider the matter. It ehould, therefore, be distinctly under stood that there is no proposal to inn pose preferential tariffs for the col cnies without further reference to the electorate.
 London, Oct 13.-The trend of to- days early information regarding the Tar eastern situation is less alarming. The Frankfurter ZeitJng. whose sem sational announcement of the occupa- taon of Ma-SanPho by Japan yester- day accustomed dfsquiet to-day pub fishes telegram from Shanghai say Ing there is DO confirmation of the re- ported occupation of that place. add ing that the Russo-Japanese negotia- fions at Tokdo concerning the evacua- tion of Manchuria give the impression chat the political sdtuation in Japan is quiet.
 The Koelnische Zeitung also prints reassurdng telegram from St Peters OsIrg, repeating telegram from Port Arthur stating that Viceroy Alexieff has issued a contradiction of the re- ported movements of Japanesa troops to Korea. The telegram adds that the reports circulated on the subject are evidently only intended to serve the purposes of speculation and pro- yoke disquiet.
 A special dispatch. from Rome says that forty-dve Japanese officers who have been studying at the military academies of Modena and Racconigi, have been called to Japan by telegraph and immediately started for Brindisi, to embark for Japan.
 The meeting of British admirals at Singapore has no connection with any special tension at present existing in the far east. The meeting was an- nounced asYfar back as August 25 for the purpose of enabling the command CTS of the East Indian, China and Aus tralian stations to confer with refer ence to general scheme whereby the three squadrons can be fused in the event of necessity, instead of each being confined. as heretofore. to the sphere definitely assigned to its juris- diction.
 1t has been arranged that similar conference shall be held annually.
 London, Occ l3.-Baron HayaShi, the Japanese minister here, has re- ceived reassuring news from Japan with reference to the situation in the far east. He says his telegram indi- cates that there is no need whatever for alarm and adds that the message was not reply to anything he had cabled, so he thinks 1t was probably sent because of the alarmist rumors which have been in circulation in Eu- rope and which finally reached Japan.
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