Show i11ffllA1l1oItrr N T e I I I I APPROVED y THKM Russia France and Great Britain Bri-tain Are Jealous of America CHINAS TENDERS NOT SATISFACTORY AGAIN SHE SHOWS HER LACK OP DIPLOMACY 0 i iI I All Americans and Other Foreigner 1 in Tien Tsiit Are Under Arms and Drilling Daily Eaeli nccl lloom ArmoryNO Fear is t Miniature Armory of But It is the the Jrpaiicac i Chinese Gown IcI ami Treacherous nese That Keen Them AwaUc at Night Washington Nov 14It is stated circles that Japan has herein official crcles of the the invitation not yet accepted United States to submit the question of i 1nited peace with China to our mediation statement is probably literally While the stateent l erally correct there is reason to believe has requested as a lieve that Japan preliminary t action upon our invitation invita-tion that she be informed explicitly just hat terms China has to propose as a basis of a treaty of peace Up to this moment China has not submitted any definite proposals so that the delay I de-lay appears to be rather on her part I than on Japan It could not fairly be expected that I I the Japanese would halt in their triumphant tri-umphant march and perhaps afford their opponents an opportunity to rally j from their disorganized condition unless un-less Japan is furnished with some satisfactory sat-isfactory proposition by China that i may be binding beyond question upon the latter No such satisfactory proposition prop-osition has yet been made by China but on the contrary the Chinese tenders ten-ders so far have been on a basis that could not be accepted with safety and I consistency by Japan I For instance a Chinese proposition both was that Corea be evacuated by Chinese and Japanese troops Inasmuch Inas-much as the principal cause of the war was Japans contention that the entire and financial Corean administrative lnancial I system must be reformed on modern lines and that Japan must undertake I the task a temporary occupation of the country at least by Japan was a necessary condition And conditioning that Japanese troops evacuate China j immediately would also violate alI precedent for it is customary in such cases for the victorious nation to remain I re-main in possession of the captured territory as a pledge until the payment pay-ment of the war indemnit After the FrancoPrussian war the German forces thus held Belfort and othen French fortresses until the enormous war indemnity of one billion dollars had been paid in Germany But disregarding the points of difference dif-ference it is becoming more evident that the interference of European powers is a stumbling block in the i way of a settlement of the war through the mediation of the United States nearly all having interests in the east which they regard as paramount para-mount to our own I An official who has given much at tention to the subject is of the opinion that Russia will never consent to any thing which looks like an indefinite occupation of Crea by Japan unless she is herself allowed to take alowed possession posses-sion of a portion of Corea fjr tis east ern terminus of the Siberian railroad rairoad i France is reported to have demanded j I a coaling station on the island of For I mosa and Great Britain has reached out for the island of Chusen |