The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-04
BRITAlN'S CONDITIONS
 FOR RUSSIAN ENTENTE
NO INTERFERENCE WITH JAP.
 ANS INDEPENDENCE.
Port Arthur and vfaaivostok, Which Can Only be Menace to That Coun- try. Must be Dlsarmed and Efforts to Destroy AngIo-Amerlcan Frlsndsbip Abandoned-Furthsr Opening of Far Eastern Markets on Equal Terms.
astsrn Markets on Equal Terms.

London, April 1.-The Daily Tele- graph, discussing the altered tone of the Russian press toward the United States and Great Britain and the pos- abilities of a rapprochement, in an edi- torial which probably represents the government view, says:
 "The object of our foreign office has been for years, ever since Lord Sails burys first administration, to arrive at a friendly and honorable arrangement with Russia. Heartily as we welcome the symptoms of a better understand ing, such friendship must be based up- on absolute sincerity. We cannot con sent to any interference with the inde- pendence of Japan, and all attempts to destroy the good feeling between Great Britain and the United States must be abandoned. The further opening of the Far Eastern markets on equal terms to Anglo-American commerce will be in sisted upon.
 If Russia is prepared to limit her demands to those she formulated in her different treaties with China, and if she is willing to disarn Port Arthur and Vladivostok, which can only be a menace to Japan, she can have peace tomorrow with the hearty concurrence of Great Britain and the United States. In this particular problem Germanyss views are not a factor
 St. Petersburg, April S.--The newspa- pers continue to discuss the British ex- petition to Tibet and the speech of the viceroy of India, Lord Curzon of Kedle- ston, March 30 at Calucutta, (when he reviewed the last five years of Indian administration and referred to the gov ernment's wathcful policy), but most of them in singularly dispassionate tone.
 The Bourse Gazette onpenly suggests that King Edward is planning an en- tente between Great Britain and Russia and then says: There is no need of alarm. We have been accustomed since the days of Disraeli and Salisbury to such yelled threats (referring to Lord Curzon's speech). Indian Secretary Brodrick's announcement of big guns for India has broken no bones nor is any one frightened by the forthcoming British naval demonstration in the Mediterranean. The fact is that the British foreign policy is now in higher hands than Lord Curzon's, and we all know that a sincere, peaceful and loyal influence is being exerted by King Ed ward There is no longer doubt of Brit ish neutrality and there is no reason for apprehension regarding the promise of a friendly agreement with Russia concerning Tibet We are only curious to see how Great Britain will explain armed aggression in a Chinese prov- ince.''
 The Russ says that Great Britain took a leas out of Japan's book on the way to open hostilities by attacking the Ti- betans without declaration of war.
 The Novoe Vremya says: Two American millionaires have changed the destinies os India. Since Lord Curzon became Lord Kitcheners brother-ifl- law (sic) their personalities seem to have merged. Curzon spoke with the words of Kitchener on the glacis theo- " and Kitchener adopted the policy of Curzon in sending an alleged diplomatic mission into Tibet. The glacis theory is all right so long as it has to do with ur- armed foes.
 The mistake of the Novoe Vremya in speaking of Lord Curzon and Lord Kit chener as brothers-in-law probably em- anated from a rumor in circulation some time ago that Lord Kitchener was to marry Miss Daisy Letter, a. sister of Lady Curzon.
 The glacis theory to which the Novoe Vremya refers was contained in Lord Curzon's Calcutta speech in which he. said that India rese1nbled a fortress be- yond whose walls there existed on one side a glacis of varying breadth and dimensions which they did not desire to occupy but which they could not afford to see occupied by foe.
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