Show GOING INTO THE HEART OF AFRICA t t Expedition to Start rt From London Soon CAMBON WAS WA S EMBARRASSED LIsTE S TO ANG SPEECHES S t London Nov William Whitehouse jr of Newport R H It L I who has hag been in Leaden this week testify testifying testifyIng ing big in an UI arbitration case in connection with a personal dispute between two members of the Abyssinian expedition exp of 1900 intends to start in a few weeks an on a fresh ex cx expedition expeditIon to the heart of AfrIca accompanied accompanied panted by Captain Powell Cotton Co ton of the North Cumberland nd They in intend Intend intend tend to go ia In a Belgian gunboat up the Congo to thence through the Pigmy f forest ret to the north avoid avoiding avoidIng ing the usual forest route the Uga nada and then push on and explore th the unknown portions port ns of Lake Laka Albert The chief objects of the expedition are arc areto areto to obtain big game but it will also in include Include clude dude practical surveys surveys from which val valuable valuable geographical results may be ex cx expected expected ported Mr lIr Whitehouse hopes to re turn in about nine months I Amusement lies has been created among the members me moors of or the diplomatic tlc corps cor s by what Is ia termed the French ambas ambassadors ambassadors ambassadors ordeal at the Thanksgiving din dinner dinner dinner ner given under the auspices of the American Ar society in London II It Cam Cambon bon bun was WILS obliged to listen to expressions of brotherhood whish which toward oward the end of the fhe dinner into Int enthusiastic prophecies that the world would be controlled by hy English speaking people without a single ref ret reference reference to France Prance except by Henry White United States charge ch rge who with a tactful utterance officially disowned tItle tilts thoughtless s treatment of ef the chief guest and got himself out of what might have luwe been an awkward Poor Cambon said a member of the diplomatic corps coIs to a representative r of the Associated Press Frees felt very uncomfortable uncomfortable uncomfortable but outwardly outward I he ha took the whole hole affair as a rather lher r good go d joke on n himself It is likely to be a long time however before he attends another nn ther such banquet It was a great mistake to invite him The affair hItS has created no little annoy annoyance annoyance annoyance ance to the American embassy Wales Wales Will Not Challenge Even If those alleged to be con concerned corned in the effort to induce the Prince of Wales to challenge for the cup did not categorically deny the truth of the report It would be palpa palpably bly My absurd Lord Dunraven and Sir Thomas Lipton the two yachtsmen mentioned as cooperating to this end are notoriously l opposed ed to each other while other members is of the royal yacht squadron for tot some reason or other and in spite of the kings effort to the contrary vigorously St oppose Sir Thomas Thomaa Lipton His chances of election to the thero royal ro l yacht squadron ron are still as re remote remote remote mote as ever Should the king exer exercising exercising exercising his royal prerogative force the matter to an issue many members of the squadron contemplate withdrawing and aad forming n er organisation but butin butIr butin in Ir view ew of th t Pro td of such distinguished dl subjects as the members of the squadron it Is not like likely likely l ly the king kinS will push matters further I The regular exodus ex us of American of officials I from London L dori Is I now taking place piece Within a fortnight the ambas ambassador ambassador I second secretary and the th naval and military attaches eg will all AU be in I America Americ on lEe leave of absence en b e only I Henry White charge and William C Bustle Eustis the third thin secretary remaining at the embassy Commander Comma der Richardson Clover the naval takes tates beck back for the in inspection Inspection inspection of the navy department yet another invention for controlling tor torpedoes torpedoes torpedoes by br wireless telegraphy which he be inspected In this week The inventors experiments show that torpedoes torpe es not only can be steered by electric waves wave but can be stopped started and fired at will by means of this thin agency Fall in Securities The he stupendous fall faU in British gov government go railroad ant aM industrial In securities sec securIties ur since the South African war com corn commenced comme me ed is almost without precedent In two years the Bankers rs Magazine I says sa S the net decrease in the value of 3 selected elected listed S amounts I to the enormous total of 1 Console Con which the day before the Boer Boor ultimatum were quoted at 1 are arenow arenow now 91 1316 whereas in the same pert peri period od oil several l foreign government stocks and American railroads rose in value about The decrease deere SC in fourteen British and Indian govern government government government ment funds amounted 1 to The common stock of nineteen British railroads lost in value in the war pe pa period perIod nod over while the decline in railroad debentures and preferences brings the total toes loss over At a meeting of the Metropolitan asylums board today the chairman said it was useless u 1 to t blink bUnk at the fact tact that London was in for tor a 8 heavy epi epidemic epidemic epidemic demic of smallpox and for great ex cx expense expense pense pease In contending with it Since Aug 16 18 there has haa been 67 cases noti notified fled fied and deaths from the disease During the past put fortnight 2 2 fresh cases have haYe been reported The foreign office oft ce here confirms th the report that the Ru Chinese Man Manchurian lI Manchurian n OUan are broken off The officials however attribute this more to the opposition of or the Chinese vice viceroys viceroys roys and the death of LI Hung Chang than to the operations of ot Japan The government has issued i a notification notification cation that owing to the of or martial law In Cape Colony and Natal Natel nobody with a per permit permit permit mit will be allowed to land laud in South Africa after Jan t 1 |