Show LION AND BfAR AGAIN AT PEACE j Conflict Between England and Russia Averted f S PREMIER SALISBURY CANNOT BE BLUFFED r powers Recognize Each Others RIghts In China t Emperor Williams MeZago to Kip ling Connected With International PoliticsAn Expression of Friendship Friend-ship For AmericansPeter Dunn Introduces Mr Dooley to the PublicCecil Rhodes Captures the Germans With His Railroad + Copyright 1SIC by thoAssociated Press London Iarcn lLThe British lion I and the RussIan bear came to uncomfortably uncom-fortably close quarters this Week over the Chinese imbroello The newspapers had already begun to talk or a serious crisis and grave outlook but the diplomatic diplo-matic swItchmen again succeeded In warding off a collision on the subject of the Northern railway a conflict being be-ing averted by a Russian backdown according tOo the jingoes and by a compromise com-promise according tl1 more impnrtJal obseners The real enlanation of the affair appears ap-pears to be that Russia made a protest against the BrItish railroad contract partly as a feeler and Dartly as a warn lag If the British premier had shown weakness Russia would have persIsted but in any case Russia by her protest elicited a ministerial statement in the house of commons that the condItions of her loan did not constitute foreign control Thus Russia obtained a pledge that no such interpretation would be et placed on the contract in the event of default which is a further substantial concession to the Russian claims In northern China On the other hand Lord SalIsbury scored In securing a withdrawal at the RussIan protest But Russia also gained a point with which she has good reason to feel satisfied The Times thInks Lord Salisbury achieved a considerable success which must unquestionably strengthen Great Britains position at Pekln The paper however also sees In the adjustment of the dispute a triumph for the pacific and conciliatory clements otRussian statesmanship and above all a practical prac-tical expression Ot the czars determInation determI-nation to meet Great Britain halt way in the removal of all the regrettable misunderstandings which have hitherto kept Great Britain and Russia apart The Times adds that it is sure the British government is prepared to give fuller recognition to accomplished facts in the northern Chinese provinces and to assist Russia in regularizIng her position po-sition on the basis of reciprocity This remark ot the Times shows that the British noW accept the RussificaUon at Manchuria as an accomplished fact and they only expect their government to secure compensation In other dlre tions FINANCIAL DILEMMA The conservative government has got itself into financial straits The publication pub-lication of the naval estimates completes com-pletes the various Items ot national expenditure ex-penditure which total up E112185200 being an increase of c4471200 over the estimates It Is probable there will be a deficit of ovc 4OGOOOO which It is expected the chancellor of the exchequer exche-quer SIr Michael HicksBeach will meet by a rclIIposition of the former tobacco duty and an increase of the income in-come tax to nine pence The suggestion is made In the press that the deficit be met by a suspension ot a portIon of the sinking fund The city however Is opposed to this as calculated to weaken the whole financial finan-cial posItion of the country In a time not only of peace but of ample revenue and great prosperity A ray of sunshine in the financIal situation sit-uation Is seen in the apparently booming boom-Ing state of trade as shown by the board of trade returns The imports since December show an increase of 1100000 as comDared with 1818 Indicating Indi-cating that the purchasing power ot the country is still growing These satisfactory figures help the chancellor of the exchequer in taking a hopeful view of the revenue for the coming year but they will not avert the necessity neces-sity of new taxation The liberal press naturally makes the most ot he governments financIal difficulties dif-ficulties which are attributed to the governments policy of Doles to Squlrearcl1v and to extravagances WILLLL MESSAGE TO KIPLING Emperor Williams message to Mm Rudyard Kipling has naturally attracted attract-ed great attention particularly the ret erence to Our common race The first impression here was that Emperor WillIam Wil-lIam thought Kipling was an American Ameri-can especially as the German papers referred to the American author Kipling Kip-ling but this impression is quite erroneous erro-neous The emperor was a reader of Kipllngs works long before he settled In America HIs majesty however knew that Kiplings wife was an AmerIcan Amer-Ican and It Is thought he intended to include America when he spoke ot the common race The Spectator today is willing says The emperor evidently Ing to substitute the Teuton for the AngloSaxon as the ruling race of the future He did not venture to call Hip lIng an American but beIng anxious that his telegram should be taken as 3 compliment to the Americans rather than Englishmen the German journals received a hint to describe him as an American at least The Germans read Kipling and know his pedIgree as well as we do and that is the only eplana tlon we can offer for their otherwise inexplicable unanimity In blundering TIle Spectator in another artida remarks re-marks It must be a eiheguhar CX penance even for Kipling to wake up from a serious Illness and find that two great peoples have been Interested in his fate that an cmperar has grieved for him in words having the weight of a political manifesto and that his value to publishers has been increased by hundreds perhaps by thousands a year PETER DUNNS SUCCESS Ur Dooley in Peace and War by l1r Peter Dunn the newspaper man of Chicago has met wIth a wonderful reception re-ception here The book is quoted ever where and the author fg spokda of a3 another Mark Twain The Spectator tadaY during the course of a long ra I p i2w the yok cmpai Mr Dun wit emus Ward TIEt11h papers a o jubilant t the prspots of tha 5UCeiS vf Mr Cecil hOes visit t Beln and his coming aUdIi c w1tl Epelr Wiiam which it is ld proinlse 5 well for the Cape tClra railroad I is remarked that i wi be a curo > meeting betwCn he prime mOver in the Jamesn rid and the author of the Imperial telea1 to Pedet Krger of the Ts l Tpub1c Ir Rhodes It is undCtood is prpae to offer Germ w freer access ac-cess to the line and to exercise control oer that portion rerng Geran territory Germany would sre Im porttnt oncesons and running power over the ho1e Rhoelan railroad sy tern The National ZGtug anticipates tht Mr Rhodcs 1 be scc11 and contends that hIs success will not be InjurIous to GCn colonial interests in Africa I says coolly Mr Rhodes Is not a favoJe here hut German Interests are not s Identical Identi-cal with those of the Boors that Germany many must forever Elar the feelings of the Transvaal toward Mr Plode Other German newspcperswhich era formerly ntRoc flaw approve Can C-an arrangement wih him rCetng the railroad I is further reported that lIr Rhodes also include in his scheme the construction of a railroad from the Atlantic acrcss German Southwest South-west Africa to Podesla SOUAN CAIPAGN I The latest advices from the Son dan kha an minimize the strengtlt ofthe lifate fOes though it baa been pra licly decided to send an expiton t Hfl r dispose of him General Lord tchene will shortly make an extended tour of the eastern SOIca1 vlsiUng lasaia Sualim and Gedee A squadron of cavalry has been dispatched dis-patched from Omdurman up the WhUe NHe to l1raYCnt supplies being furnished fur-nIshed clandestinely to the lthalas camp in Kordofal Several cases have recently come to lIght poIntng to the raence of a widespread System of re commIssions commIs-sions gnawing at thc roots of cmmer cal lfe which care as 3 surprise to tue general public The London cha bar of commerce appointed a commIttee commIt-tee to nves1te the matter and re POt this week I sows that bribery and corruption arc rampant In every department of business and professional life According t the report commissions commis-sions which easily pass into bribes are given to firms or agents to secure custom Then the recipients demand similar bribes from other firms and the stress of competition necessitates their being paid Thus Q form of bla kmal hiss been Inttuted and also a system of disposing o inferior articles The committee in order to checl the evil l ommeds civil proceedings under the present law and fre legislation makIng mak-Ing the practice criminal |