New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-21
TOPICS IN PARIS.
Japanese Jiu-JitSu IN War-No
Move To1Card Peace.
Especial by French Cable to The TriDuns1

| Especial by French Cable The Tribune)
| Copyright, 1905. by The Tribune Apsooation.)
Paris, May 20.-Admiral Gervais and two
olner high French naval authorities attach Gre
oence to the idea that the japanese will avoid
big naval battle with Rojestvensky on the
! nigh seas. but will lure the United Russian
meets into Vladivostok. bottle them up there,
| and uncork them by a repetition of the COM
| oined sea and land attacks that succeeded so
e1ecuVely at Port Arthur. This is described by
a Wen known French admiral a skilfui ap-
| plcadon to naval warfare Of the principles of
! jiu-jitsu.
Considerable excitement was caused by the
French battleship Jaureguiberry being torpedoed
curing the naval man9uvres at Ouiberon Bay
| on Thursday night by Whitehead automobile
torpedo, discharged from the French destroyer
Sagaie. naval expert explains the cause of
| the accident follows: In actual warfare the
steel pointed cone terminating the torpedo is
filed with 100 kilogrammes of fumicotton, and
explores by shock against any solid object such
as the hull OF an enemys ship. In the manau-
Vres this cone is replaced by a soft lead cone
that causes shock. but does not injure either
the ship hit or the torpedo itself The torpedo
That hit the Jaureguiberry was duly provided
with the soft lead cone, but what exploded was
the reservoir Of compressed air, which supplies
the motor force of the latest model Whitehead
torpedo, an accident liable to happen at any
time in the course of experiments and manoeu-
vres as carried out in the French and American
navies. The Jaureguiberry came within an ace
OF being destroyed. for she was hit near a par
tition of a watertight compartment. Her steel
plating was perforated the shaft and screw
or the rudder damaged and one compartment
! flooded. II hit six inches further forward the
Jaureguiberry would have been sunk.
now more firmly seated in the saddle than at
any time in the last six months. The approval
OF his foreign policy by an overwhelming ma
| jority in the Chamber of Deputies and the in
definite postponement by his parliamentary OPP
ponents Of their intended interpretations on Mo-
rocco and neutrality show that all friction be-
tween MN Rouvier and Delcasse is now over
and that the whole Cabinet is united. Moreover,
the participation of the government in the fare
well banquet to General Horace Porter is re-
garded important manifestation Of the in
creasing bonds of friendship between France and
| the United States and indicating the popular
desire in France to draw still closer toward the
English speaking countries. AS NJ. Delcasse has
worked more effectively toward such a result
than any other Minister of Foreign Affairs of
the Third Republic timely prestige is thus added
to his strong personality.
| Each day some rumor of steps taken
| either by President Roosevelt or by King Ed
ward toward the restoration of peace between
! Japan and Russia crops up in the newspapers or
| on the Bourse, but assurance is given on the
highest authority that none Of these rumors rest
| upon any definite far taken either in
America Europe. although your correspond
ent is authorized to state that great confidence
felt in official circles in Paris that overtures
| will be made simultaneously by the three great
| c,+
| tersburg and at Toxic, proposing an armistice
| as soon as the great naval battle takes place
| which in the opinion Of military men here will
/ decide the issue of the war
Alcide Ebray. who mas been appointed French
| Consul General at New-York, but who will not
probably take over the duties of his office for
some months to come, has never vet visited
! America, although he speaks English fuently
| and is familiar with English, and especially
American literature M Ebray, long connected
! with the journal des Debats" is one of the
most prominent political editorial writer's in
/ France He is young and energetic and has the
clear and incisive expression, the frank cordial
| ity and the sympathetic personality that our
countrymen so highly appreciate NJ Ebray is
personal friend of NJ. Delcasse. and, like NJ
Delcasse, is a journalist by profession The
handspring Of the French foreign policy outlined
for the last ten years in the journal des De-
bats" by Alcide Ebray has been the approach
ment of France toward England, Frances best
commercial customer and toward the Ameri-
cans, who to-day enjoy more personal popularity
in Paris than visitors of any other land. N.
Ebray is, moreover. not a mere fair weather
friend. but had the courage of his opinions in
the sQually days OF Fashoda and during the war
between the United States and Spain.
The Paris dog show, which opened to-day In
the Tuileries Garden, is more brilliant than any
OF it's thirty-five annual predecessors Altogether
fifteen hundred bowwows are in the exhibition.
exclusive of some dozen packs OF hounds. All
the dogs are Gagged, not benched; that is to say,
they occupy spacious boxes with plentiful sup
ply OF water and straw. and are free to move
about, instead Of being chained to peg The
toy French bulldogs are now highest in fashion
able favor as domestic pets. Next come the
happy little japanese black and white fish eat
ing spaniels, Of which there are some fine speci-
mems. The best pack Of .foxhounds is that Of
Henry Ridgway. There is a splendid pack of
barriers Of the Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne.
The show contains thirty excellent German TEX
els, which Emperor William has brought SO
much into vogue
Miss Farrar, the American soprano of the Ber-
lin Opera House. made her first public appear
In ariR La at Df9hf in