| Show JOHN BULL TO BLAME a Did Not Notify Powers of Annexation An-nexation of Transvaal 1 HENCE KRUGERS TREATMENT I Oom Paul According to the Westminster West-minster Gazette Has n Perfect Gaete crec I Bight to be Treated a a Sovereign I Traveling Incognito Charles Williams I hams One CritIcs 1ams of Leading War Git Ics of Great Britain Presents a I Bitter Indictment Against Gen Kitchener Illness of the Czar I 1 London Nov 2Lfr Krugers tri Uriiphant passage from Marseilles to Paris Is regarded with curious and unexpected un-expected Indifference In Great Britain Every detail of the remarkable ovation has been read with Interest but the underlying feeling here is moro one oC I amusement than Irritation The nation j that boJlcd over with fury when Queen VicfoiIa was caricatured by Parisian Journals takes the French homage to Its arch enemy as an exhibition of Inevitable In-evitable Gaelic enthusiasm not likely to affect international Issues or create anymore serious friction than already I exists among the populace of the two coun tiles JOHN BULL TO BLAME The recognition of Mr Kruger as being be-ing still President of the Transvaal by both the French Government and tho Queen of Holland calls forth from tho Westminster Gazette that this apparent unfriendliness is due to Great Britains own fault in not communicating to theI powers the annexation of the South l I African republics So long as this Is not done Mr Kruger according to this English authority has a perfect right I to be treated as 0 sovereign traveling Incognito This failure to notify the powers the same paper declares militates tates still moro seriously against Great Britain for until this International formality Is observed no right exists to trent the Inhabitants of the Boer rc I publics as rebels BITTER AGAINST KITCHENER I The forthcoming promotion of MaJ Gen Lord Kitchener to a Lieutenant Generalship elicits from Charles Williams Wil-liams one of the leaders of the war critics the bitterest indictment of that General ever published In England He declares Gen Kitchener meditates a listless and ruthless extermination oC the Boers hoping to execute his atrocities atroci-ties amid silence like that at tho tomb of the MahdI I He believes the British officers and men will not endure this and that Kitchener will stand revealed to the country as a scourge Inexorable APOLOGIZES TO SATAN Mr Williams apologizes to Satan for mentioning him Jn tho same breath with Kitchener and maintains that tho resignation of several general officers and the removal of Gen KellyKenny from Bloemfonteln confirm the suspicion suspi-cion that they would have nothing to do with Kitcheners dirty work I Is almost needless to say that this bitter attack by no means represents the average opinion What exercises Great Britain more than the progress of the war in South Africa And Mi Krugers visit to France is tjife illness of the Czar FEAR ANTIBRITISH REGENCY G The shadow of the bear couchant 1st ever present as a source of dread and suspicion to the average British statesman states-man How much more would he be feared If rampant Is evident from the grave tone of the editorial articles of the London press when their writers contemplate what might happen should the hand of death remove the present Pacific ruler of Russia The possibility of an avowedly antiBritish regency with aggressive proclivities looms up so keenly that It is doubted If the bulletins bul-letins from Llvidia are awaited anymore any-more keenly in Russia than In Great Britain ATTACKS WASHINGTON MOVES The bitterness with which the London Lon-don Times attacks every move made by Washington In Chinese matters seems to Increase daily and Is all the more surprising on account of the attitude 0 the British Foreign office The prInciples princi-ples laid down in Secretary Hays latest note were given to L representative of the Associated Press by n British official cial before the reception of Mr Hays note as voicing the opinion of the Brit ish Cabinet Yet the Times comes out today wIth n vigorous protest against the idea of Mr Hays principles being considered WUS CINCINNATI SPEECH Referring to the Cincinnati speech of Wu Ting Fang the Chinese Minister to the United States after saying that his promising the United States the better commercial chances when peace Is restored would in some cases be resented re-sented as an Injury The paper adds But Wu Ting Fang seems to have known his audience All the comment an Influential American paper makes is that Wu Ting Fang knows that Americans like all others give their own Interests first place COMPARES WU TO LT To LI The Times thencompares this alt tude with that of LI Hung Chang on his trip around the world during which It is asserted he acted on the convic tion that pecuniary selfinterest ton pecunlaY was thesole guiding principle of the peoples peo-ples and governments which proved unsatisfactory recipients of the multi mul tudinous promises which he failed tore to-re eem Secretary Hay is taken severely to 1 task for daring to differ from the de mands as now formulated DECLARES IT A FARCE From another source comes another striking impartial confirmation of the American views H J Whigham correspondent cor-respondent of the Morning Post in ChIna Chi-na cables from Shanghai as follows The Peking farce continues When I left all the legations were trusting LI trustng Hung Chang It I was believed that the court would return to Peking and that any attempt on the part of the Dowager Empress to arrest Prlnc Tuna would be absurd Prince Chwaug who was arrested is simply Prince Tuans scapegoat I Is obvious there fore that the court will not return to Peking I can only be attacked dur ing the winter through the Yangtse valley |
