The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-03

to act together for the protection of the lives and property of foreigners if menaced to maintain an attitude of strict impartiality as between the con tending factions and to abstain from any en6aavor to influence the Chinese
 :n Saefr organization of a new form of government.
 In view of the seriousness # the disturbances and their general char acter, the American minister at Pc
 king wes instructed at his discretion to advise our nationals in the affected districts to concentrate at such cen
 ters as were easily accessible to for
 eign troops or men-of-war. Nineteen
 of our naval vessels were station ed at
 various Chinese ports. and other meas
 ures were promptly taken for the ade-
 quate protection of American inter
 estS.
 It was further mutually agreed, in
 the hope of hastening an end to hos
 tfities, that none of the interested
 powers would approve the making of
 loans by it's nationals to either side.
 As soon, however, as a united pro
 v1sional government of China was as
 sured, the United States joined in a
 favorable consideration of that gov
 ernment's request for advances needed
 for immediate administrative necessi-
 ties and later for loan to effect a
 permanent national reorganization.
 The interested governments had all
 ready, by common consent, adopted,
 in respect to the purposes. expendi-
 ture. and security of any loans to China made by their nationals. certain conditions which were held to be es- sentiaI, not only to secure reasonable
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 but also to safeguard and strengthen China's credit by discouraging indis- criminate borrowing and Gy insuring the application of the funds toward the esta ablishment of the stable and effective government necessary to China's welfare.
 In June last representative banking groups of the United States, France, Germany, Great Britain. Japan and
 Russia formulated, with the general sanction of their respective govern ments, the guaranties that would be expected in relation to the expenditure and security of the large reorganiza- tion loan desired by China, which, however. have thus far proved unac, ceptable to the provisional govern ment,
 South America.
 Our rela tions with the Argentine Re public are most friendly and cordial So also are our relations with Brazil, whose government las accepted the in vitation of the United States to send two army officers to study at the coast artillery school at Fort Monroe. The long standing Alsop claim, which had been the only hindrance to the healthy growth of the most friendly relations between the United Sta tes and Chile. having been eliminated through the submission of the question to his Bri- tannic majesty King George V. as "amfable compositeur,' it is cause of much gradficati ton to me that our reIa- dons with Chile are now esta blished upon firm basis of growing friend ship. The Chilean government has placed an officer of the United States coast artillery in charge of the Chilean coast artillery school and has shown | appreciation of American methods by confiding to an American firm 1mpor- tant work for the Chilean coast de lenses Hs
 Last year a revolution against the l esta blishedA government of Ecuador broke out at the principal port of that republic Previous to this occurrence l the chief American interest in Ecua- dor, represented by the Guayaqufl and l Quito Railway company. Incorpora ted 1 in the United States. had rendered ex- tensive transportation and other serv- | ices on account to the Ecuadorian gov 1 ernment. the amount Of which ran 1 into sum which was steadily increas- | ing and which the Ecuadorfan govern l ment had made no provision to pay, thereby threatening to crush out the l very existence of this American enter I prise.
 When tranquility had been restored | to Ecuador as result of the triumph | ant progress of the government forces l from Quito, this government interposed 1 it's good offices to the end that the | American interests in Ecuador might 1 be saved from complete extinction. As ! 3 part of the arrangement which was 1 reached between the parties and at the request of the government of Ecuador, i have consented to name an arbitra- 1 tor, who, acting under the terms of the railroad contract, with an arbitrator named by the Ecuadorian government. | will pass upon the claims that have | arisen since the arrangement reached | through the action of a similar arbitraI | in 1908
 In pursuance of request made some | lime ago by the Ecuadorian govern nent, the department of state has giv- | an much attention to the problem of | the proper sanitation of Guayaquil. As 1 l result detail of officers of the canal i zone will be sent to Guayaquil to rec measures that will lead to the complete permanent sanitation of this plague and fever infected region of hof 1yI1i 1 constituted a menace to health condi. ions on the canal zone. 1t is hoped hat the report which this mission will furnish will point out way whereby | he modicum of assistance wGich the United States may properly lend the government may be spade ,id ho nf 1