Show OPEN DOOIflN CHINA Negotiations Begun In This Direction Direc-tion By the Powers I UNCLE SAMS IIIATIVE UiCLE I PAlE CHANCE AN UNETA the JYE REACHED Prance Thus Far Has Most Strongly Opposed the Plan Eut Must Fol low RusaUnted States Great rt and Japan Perfectly Ag2dIterst I Transvaal Copyright 189 by the Associated Press London Nov 25As a result of the United State rEuest to the powers for assurances regarding the maintenance main-tenance of the open door in Chin the AsoclatcjPe is able to say that negotiations have bexk entered I into looking to a more permanent and I Import rt international agreement thnJe mooted Though the greatest official reticence is observed at all the capitals regarding the secret movement move-ment there Is good cause for believing tlatthe negotiations have reached a hopeful state According to reports current here in coneluec oC Russia and France failing fo reply satsfactor Ib to Washinctons rfue5L thp United States decided to tk li the Chinese question still mOre vigorously J igO i YBrlbin The coOperation of Great Britain to this end It Is assorted was secured and i Is saId upon the initiative of the Unted States efforts were set on foot to secure not only assurances to the United Stte but a definite agre ment between the Eopean met betwen Eop powers themselves Such an understanding to the average European statwman has long seemed Utopian ret today the Associated Press is informed on good authQrity there are fall chances of Great Britain Russia German and Japan In conJunction with the United State becoming signatories to a treaty delimitating the sphere of polticl 11 iluence In China arid determining their fsc I policy In that quarter of the globe based on the open door prIn cple Such is the scope of the negotiations negotia-tions The projected arrangement may be retroactive as regards territory in other words districts row controlled for Instance may change hands in return re-turn for other privileges France apparently ap-parently has exhIbited the greatest opposition op-position to this plan so far but a sirnc have bcTeelvcd from Bus I Sia and her apparent willingness to I enter Into an agreement with the United I Unit-ed Stats as the leading factor has i given rise to the belief that France Is not necessarily a stur bUns block for I I If Russia entered Into the agreement France It is asserted Is almost bound I to follow or render herself powerless in I I I the far east r It Is understood the I United State Great Britain and Japan have already arrived at a perfect un derstandin dertndln hote1iIiifluenceOu Germany I Germanys deISion as greatly influenced In-fluenced by the Emperor who had Ire I I quent conferences on thIs far eastern problem wWleIn England with 111 Joseph Jo-seph IL Choate United States amba sdor At the queMS banquet Mr Chate conversed at length wIth the eperor andt is saId chiefly confined himself to te question of China I is scarcely probable that any official or semiofficial reference will be mae to this important undeurnt whl h progresses Publicly under the guise of merely givIng assurances to the United States until It ha assume such shape that no hitch Is possible In the event of the failure of the negotiations through the refusal of Russlaor Ocr may I Is likely the world will never I know how near the ne get powers came to settling the greatest problem of the cntur I The Transvaal war becomes a matter mat-ter of momentary interest compared I with tl treeous possIbilitIes dependent de-pendent on these exertions which are I I now occupyIng the diplomats of Europe Eu-rope and the war Itself has reached a I I stage where even British interest somewhat some-what lags The advance of the troops to the ele of Ladsmith Kimberle I and llafeklng Is necessarily clothed in I secrecy whIch Is only broken by the news of desultory engagements The pat week seems to have altered but little the conditions described in tee dispatehea Even it Genera White holds out until relieved It will only remove re-move a picturesque phase of the cain pign and does not men that I will hasten its speedy end The Boers It Is clal1e are not likely to risk the decIdIng battle of the war until they have got General Bulers InvadIng force Into a position believed to be fa yora61e to them or until they are drivI en Into a corner which promises to be a matter of months I The criticism of the methods or the British organization has led see army Britsh orgniaton hs le se erl wrier to agaIn seriously consider I the advisability of adopting some form ot conscription but although prepn deranceof military experts might favor such a sep the British nation has not yet reached that stage here It could submit to such militarism Wire Telegraph I Navy Wireless telegraphy areonIs system I sys-tem has finally been intro lueed Into the navy as a branch study The old hulk Hector lying at Portsmouth has been fitted out asa school of Instruction instruc-tion and signals from her will be attached at-tached to the battleship Canopus which goes to the Mediterranean In December taking war instruments a part of her regular equipment She wilt be the first British ship to do this In a letter received at his home written 1n the evening of the battle of Elandslaagte the 16yearld rm I pet r Shurlock ot the Fifth royal IrIsh lance who shot three Boer shows I that he lives up to his word All the other boys wrote Shurlock I were left behind at PkteIrizburg I am just enjoying msel all right here I went to try a revolver the other day The sergeant major said Very good for the first time and I bet I will shoot some of the Boers down if I get the lest chance cance The speech of Mr James Bryce M P thIs week at Aberdeen when the electors passed a vQte of confidence In him has been he cause or much com mentA He presented the lbeal case with great fairness Speaking a statesmanlike manner and laying ape cla stress onthe Amercn revolution he showed that selfgoverning colonies could only be retained by friendlneS and not by force of arms The death oC Lady Salisbury called out te most sincere expressions of sympathy and appreciation forthe pre ntiers personality front all sections The fears that his loss would cause Lord SaIbu s premature retirement do not appear to be based on fact although al-though ady SalSur vas a get aId to hIm In pdbliclife ViIt of E per So tar the private nature of the em perrI yJsit to England has prevented It attractlsig nuct public attention att s If k publc te ton r though any numter otxuznors are current cur-rent anent Its dlnlpmatcreult Tat i will serioualyafectIf nst decide the Cine negotiations mentioned seems highly probable while itIs more than likely that it will be followed by further BritshGerna ae ments regarding re-garding Nigeria which topic Mi Chamberlain doubtless lscused dut Ing hIs audIence I Is saId the queen has promised to visit I her grandson at Potsam In the vier sprIn after staying at tbeItalian R According to a dispatch toU e Lancet from Rome the Itiilians are hugely delighted at her majestys deterlna ton not to S to France interpreting this change In her usual prgrmme as an intended and deliberate rebuke 01 Frantes antBrltsh rces utterances Commentngo1 Admiral Dewes dif fcult wIth hlshom the Saturday Rc sjew says His period of apotheosis hif been avep shorter than usual with a darling of the Democracy JStal Mr Choats slip at th Edinburgh literary dInner In a speech crediting ltons peace hath lervlctorleS to a AmerIcan olt < r continues to be the rure of comment and amusement A wrier In this teeksSjiaker says I is not surprising that Mi Choate failed to give the orators name while I Is very surprising thata cultivated man should makeslch a mistake mae A scandal has arisen ovitr e old age retreat Maiakof noar Paris founded by an exFrnclsc h iOt r lay wealthy old ladies were sent there and art sid 10 have been btteI tofuNd and robbed Even murder Is now al leed to hays been o1mited One woman 65 years oi ag ismid tD hne I been Induce l anntendant 2 yeas old to give up 2qoQ rr C and was then forced to marry h SeeI1 Qf the rederts were foundeadas rac cidental and padded cells were dq covered In the building by a m gietmte who is thoroughly JnWlllgatng he institution In-stitution Two Of the attendants haye been imprisoned |