The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-23
BRITISH APPRAISED BUT
 NOT FULLY SATISFIED
SETTLEMENT OF THE MALzoc4
 INCIDENT NOT ENOUGH.

Enthusiastically Telegraph Decaires
 Its Alarmist Statement of Yesterday
 Was Written in Full Knowledge rhat
 Russia Would Do as She Has in the
 Case of the sIaIacca-This Only
 Factor in the Problem.
 London, July 2s.-The morning papers generally express satisfaction that the Malacca incident has been settled in accordance with the demands of Great Britain, though there is an inclination to await the settlement of the broader question of the passage through the Dardaneltes of the volunteer fleet steam CTS before believing that all danger has +been averted. This feeling Is height ened by Premier Balfour's announce ment on the adjournment of the house of commons, that he still had no official news to communicate. either in con- nection with the Malacca incident or with the volunteer fleet steamers in general
 Some papers are even inclined to doubt the authenticity of the news that the A5alacca incident has been settled, but the Daily Telegraph semi officially explains the apparent con- tradiction existing between MT. Bal fours statements and the telegrams from St. Petersburg: Two dispatches left the foreign office July 2i, says the Daily Telegraph. ''One has elicited a favorable reply. but the other has not yet been answered. The promise that no similar incident shall occur again is very vague and elastic. It may mean that no British vessel shall in the flu |ture be seized, the papers of which are regular and the cargo carried by which belongs to his rnajesty's govern ment That is not much of a conces- sion, seeing that our fleet has instruc4 tions to prevent another such outrage. The paper fears the Russian govern- |ment has not yet agreed to desist meta- morphosing the volunteer fleet steam CTS into cruisers after passage of the Dardanelles, and says:
 We welcome the action regarding the Malacca as proof that the Russian government has no idea of gratuitouslg Insulting us. This is good as far as 1t goes"
 | The Daily Telegraph goes on to say lthat it's alarmist editorial of July 22 was written with full knowledge that the Russian government would act as It Ihas done, and the object in so writing was to point out that the Malacca incl dent was only factor in the great problem which has not yet been settled
 
 Emperor Nicholas was urged by the French government to settle the case Eof the Malacca, which settlement it at- tributes to French action. adding: Ut is rumored in diplomatic circles that Germany wishes to cooperate with Great Britain in the settlement of the main features of the disputes It urgently points out to the govern ment that popular opinion in Great Britain would not admit such partner ship, and adds an interesting detail to l the heat of the controversy of the last few days by positively stating that if the Malacca had approached the Dar- danelles she would have been sum moned to surrender by our gunboats waiting there, and if she had not com piled she would have been fired upon. I The Standard adopts a somewhat similar tone and, while expressing re- lief that the specific incident of the Malacca ceases to be dangerous.1 says; l 'There still remains a divergence of Iyiew as to the immediate outcome of which there will be prospect of trouble until the Russian admiralty conforms Ito the principles recognized by other states
 l The Daily News says it believes that lthe government is resolved that no Rus sian warships, however carefully dis- guised, shall pass the Bosphorus, the loutlet of which a portion of the Mediter- ranean fleet will carefully guard. Confirmation Of the foregoing state- ment is lacking.
 I The Times says: Although there is good reason to hope that we have ad- lvanced d stage towards satisfactory lsolution of the grave situation brought about by the seizure of the Malacca, we cannot consent to any arrangement which would cut the ground from un- der our feet. It is the status of the St. Petersburg that we contest and we | take our stand, not on some irnpalpable point of international law, but on the plain text of the treaties and conven- tions which gover the passage of the l lDardanelles'
 The Times draws attention to serious lcomplications of similar kind which are liable to occur in the Pacific, if- stancing the Pacific Mail Steamship company's apprehensions on this point. The marine insurance article of the Times says that great anxiety exists in London yesterday over charges for the aI China and Japan seas than over those q by way of the Red sea especially with jregard to the American steamship
 Shawmut. Tt is most important the
 article says, that the Americans and l ourselves should strongly object to any
 attempt to treat provisions destined for ! ordinary civilian consumption as con-
 traband of war"
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