Show P Jl TBHTiANSFUTURE Many Diverse Issues Vitally Affecting Empjre J EYES TURN TOWARD CHINA Not So Much Perhaps TJpon Immediate I Imme-diate Developments as Upon tho t EpochMaking War or Wars Which j j Hay Arise Out of the Present Crisis I I Britons Now Wrought Up to a Pitch of Intense Anxiety by the I I Drama Beiup Enacted in the Tar East II I I S i London June 23 Copyrighted 1900 t by the Associated Press Never at anytime any-time In her history has Great Britain been involved In so many diverse issues is-sues that vitally affect the future oCher oC-her empire AId though there are still at stake In South Africa military territorial ter-ritorial and financial considerations I that In their magnitude have scarcely been exceeded during the century Great Britain is no exception to the rest of Kuropp In being wrought up to a pitch of Intense anxiety l and anticipation antici-pation to the exclusion of every other topic by the drama which will be enacted en-acted In lie far East FIGHTING COMMON ENE YIn I Y-In the excitement of the moment the relief of Mafoklng seems a little thing compared with the relief oC ViccAd inlrnl Seymour and the International forces Splonkop Paardeburg and Co len o sink Into Insignificance compared with the spectacle presented by the i land and sea forces of the six greatest powers in the world fighting side by Hide against a common enemy 4 TURNED EYES TOWARD CHINA With a keen sense of the relative proportion oC things Great Britain quickly turned her to China tUled eyes not so much perhaps on Immediate developments de-velopments as upon the possibility of the epochmaking war or wars which may arise out of the present crisis MLTRAVIEFFS DEATH The death of Count MuravJoff the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs evoked no canting obituaries or expressions ex-pressions of regret here for the British press fn spite of the equanimity r of the Foreign office was unanimous in real ising the gravity of the present turn oC affairs To cjuolc a staid and hu mane weekly HAL HIS CRITICS SAY The death o Russias Minister rc rn9cl b an obstacle to the cordiality been be-en Russia and England and I though this summarizes the comment of the leading papers there Is little hope expressed that Russias aggressive I policy toward China vl be much mod l fed Apart from the material view of the result of Count Muravleffs death It Is generally referred to as one of the I most pathetic happenings In political careers for according to ithe dead I mans critics he seemed owing to the crisis in rhlna on the verge of accomplishing I ac-complishing the objoqt to which he I had f I devoted his life STRUCK DOWN IX HIS PRIME Lord Lochs death almost coinciding l j I with Count jMuravIerrBulso removes one v hoso namd Van much connected I with matters > 1111 fur ast Before ho became u uojonjal Governor Lord I Loch assisted i the ncgotlaJoiiR which 1 ulled in the treaty of Tien Tain in J iso and only vscopfed execution at the hands of the Clrines6 empire by fifteen minutes I grace LIkftMuravIofl 1 he was struck down when the dream of his 3 lifetime seemed about to be realized In his case It wni British federation over the wholeoC 1 South Africa SALISBCRYIS FRANK Lord Salisburys entreaty this week to the missionaries not to have themselves them-selves niurdeicd la yne more Instance of his uncommon frankness or as It is referred lilts lefered to thlnklngaloud phase Among the secular press the Pre jniers remark wl melt the approbation approba-tion of their sound common sense but it will not add church votes to the Conservative Con-servative party at the next general election which by the way Is still k further postponed on account of tl Chinese trouble PACIFICATION OF TRANSVAAL Great Britains army In South Africa is slowly accomplishing the work of pacification The smoldering embers of what once was fierce resistance occasionally oc-casionally Hares up but Ihe hard lighting light-ing seems to be practically over The Urlllsh military progress In the Trails vuul Is J scarcely moix Interesting now than the events In the Orange River tolony during the last 1 two months The Transvaal annexation proclamation Is I noun expected Almost Jill reports Indicate that the Uoera are rapidly realizing the futility I of a further struggle when opposed to Mich an overwhelming force 1IUMANJB MEASURES ABANDONED I 1 Ole of the moat noticeable features of the week in South Africa was Lord Robertas abandonment of humane I i measures toward the Boers which he had so long persisted in despite the criticism of the British colonists and man olflcers Tho stern vengeance 1 that now will bo visited not only on those who give the Boers passive aa slstance but on thoso who after surrendering sur-rendering fall to assist the British y unnB savors more of Gen Kitchener than of Bobs AWAITS RELIEF KumaKtile still awaits relief Gov Hodgson Is expected to hold out but even after the siege ends little can be donu to subdue the natives until thy In December a punitive alns are over npunlt expedition with a corps of white troops 4 wi probably be Mont The mortality of Col Wlllcocks Among the t officers VIcock start show how useless it would be to bctid many wMte troops until then |