The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-21
NEW MINISTER
 TO MEXICO IS BUT TEMPO PORARY :
England's Representative Is Too Valuable in Near
 East To Stay Long.

England,S Representative IS
 Too Valuable in Near
 East To Stay Long.
 London. Feb. 21.-Char1es Murray Marling. the prospective British Min ister to Mexico. is not likely to be kept there long if British diplomatic tra- ditions are followed. It is considered the usual service unless a man hap pens to have chosen that part of the world as his special sphere, and such lis not MT Markings ease. His lik- ing has been the Near East and it is no secret that he does not relish the idea of going to Mexico, but like all officials in the diplomatic service he cannot very well decline a promotion to be Minister when it is offered
 If he finds troublous times in Mex ico, he will not suffer from fnexper- fence. For nearly :25 years he has served in the Balkans and Turkey. He is a careful diplomat. and the foreign office feels safe in sending him any where Whi1e he has not attained any very high office and is still a 51 years, he has scored many success es
 A Cambridge graduate, he entered the diplomatic service as an attache in 1898 ana ID the following year was off to Athens, the first of his foreign ap- pointments. Later, in Constantin ople, where most of his career has been spent, he acquired such a knowledge of the Turkish people and their Ian guage that the foreign office awarded
 him special allowance and gave a round of duties at Rio Janeiro and at Paris, for a few years, as a sort of holiday.
 When the Cretan question became ! acute and the powers had ito step in to prevent Crete from leaving the Ot- toman Empire and joining her for tunes with Greece, which was only accomplished after the recent war, MT. Marling was sent to Athens as charge dAnaires and, when each power sent representative to Crete, he went there as consul-generaI Still more delicate duties awaited
 him concerning the Anglo-Russian negotiations in regard to the spheres of influence in Persia The British policy, as decided upon by Sir Edward of British diplomats. To give Rus sia al hold on Northern Persia, instead of Keeping that country with Afghan istan as buffer states between Russia proper and India, a treaty was sign ed which gave Russia an open road to
 India. according to these officials r. It was hard to find a diplomat who would go to Teheran. MT. Mar1inss was chosen for the post, the duties of which were neither easy nor pleasant. He had to deal with a Russian Minis ter, who all Britishers in Persia and ting the better of their country and who they believed, under the cloak Of the Anglo Russian treaty, was trying to get troops to Teheran, and eventu- ally -Russianize the whole of Northern Persia.
 It was delicate situation but MT .MarIing came out of it well. The Russian troops never got to the cap lital, the way was snoothed for the British Minister and MT. MarIing was rewarded with a special allowance for his knowledge of Persian, a promotion 1 to a couneillorsf1ip sof embassy and
 made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.
 l An increasing number of street acei- dents has caused the London County Council to be swamped with demands | that the antiquated ambulance service 1 of the metropolis be improved With
 the exception of the one sduare mile
 under the Jurisdiction of the City of
 London, the English capital has no
 wheeled ambulances of any kind. At certain street corners throughout/t the
 various boroughs stretchers are kept i in boxes, the keys of which are in the I possession of the nearest patroIrns.a. | await until sufficient bearers can be
 secured to carry him to a hospital When no hospital is within walking 1 distance, the police may commander 1 a cab. < These primitive measures since the advent of the notorious jug gernaut, have involved the death of several victims, who might have been
 saved if they could have been rushed to the hospital in a, wheeled ambu- l lance
 The failure of the County Council l to act sooner in the matter has been 1 denounced scandal by some of it's
 members because authority to insti-
 ute a good ambulance service was granted by Parliament in 1909. l The dominion's Royal Commission which is holding hearings on the proposition of state-owned Atlantic cable has written into it's record the testimony of experts who take issue with the opinion held by Postmaster General Herbert Samuel that such an enterprise would not pay, These wit nesses, who gave their evidence in Australia, New Zealand and London, ed Pacific cable and argue that an Atlantic line would be just success full and would give the British Elm pire route which would never enter for eign territory or come under foreign control.
 The Pacific cable between Cana da, Australia and New Zealand, com pleted in 1902. cost $1e. 100000 which was supplied by the dominions named