Show l iUST WAIT Britons Believe They Rave Gool Case Aaiost the I lllllldsath1 DEI AilS ElO BACK I Until Received Action will Have to be Delayed MUST CONSULT EXPERTS Incident Almost Monopolizes Atfcca tion in London Seizure of American Ameri-can Flour Relegated to a Very Subsidiary PositionBritish Press Has Taken a Calm View of German Seizure Matter and Has Refused to bo Led into Replying in Kind to Bitter Comments Telegraphed from GermanyCoal is Getting Scarcer Daily Many Industrial Institutions Institu-tions Having Beon Compelled to Shut Down Arrival of Five American Amer-ican Doctors in United Kingdom to Inspect Shipping for Plague J f London Jan Copyrighted 1900 by the Associated Presa The passtns of another week has apparently1 effected no change In the condition of the war In l South Africa It certainly has not been productive of any serious developments develop-ments In England the yeomanry are manfully contending with the difficulties difficul-ties of the riding school which is putting put-ting their patriotism in the test of falls on the tanbarl and other iucouvcn Icnces i 0 < CPA1JI DEARER Coal Is getting dally deafer audthp funds for the absentminded eiif > sand s-and others are swelling by the thousands thou-sands into proportions of unheardof munificence while the papers when not I magnifying indecisive skirmishes Into brilliant successes devote casual attention at-tention to tho dinicultles which havo I arisen over the seizure of cargoes bound for Lourcnco Marques I BUNDESRATII INCIDENT I In the latter respect the Bundca I rath Incident almost monopolizes the attention the seizure of American flour being relegated to a very subsidiary I position and not being taken aa having I the slightest possibility of producing international in-ternational friction I On the whole the British press has taken a calm view I of tho German seIzure matter and has refused to tv led into replying in kind to the bitter comments telegraphed from Germany VOICE THE GOVERNMENT H In this the papers merely voice tho feeling of the Government for at the I Foreign office not the slightest anxiety Is felt regarding the actions so far taken against the alleged contraband though that question In the abstract I causes no end of cogitation but more regarding the effect the present discussion discus-sion will have upon future events than by the press of contemporaneous dlfll cullleHMUST S a MUST WAIT FOR DETAILS The British Government believes It has a good case against tho Bundes f rath But both In this Instance and the case of the American flour the Government holds that absolutely nothing noth-ing deHnlto can be done until dutalla have been learned Even then the fine points of law must be settled by tho careful deliberation of experts In the meantime it Is possible the Government may deem It advisable to make declarations regarding contraband contra-band especially foodstuffs I CANNOT CAUSE TROUBLE But such a step Is quite problematical problemati-cal To quote an American diplomat in London who after reading the cabled account that tho United States Insistence Insist-ence upon her rights might cause trouble trou-ble How in the world do they think such a complicated pont of law can bo settled or cause any serious disagreement dis-agreement between two nations so friendly as the United States and Great Britain 1 S OPINION SATURDAY REVIEW Commenting on the American feeling the Saturday Review says Wo fear no accurate presentment of the real I feeling of tho United States regarding the war reaches this country but there Is no doubt the balance is against us The Administration organs and financial organs are still strongly with us but tho latter arc beginning to waver because tho war IB beginning to injure trade It must not be forgotten how completely l tho Administration js Jn the hands of the great financierS and trust companies ENGLISHMEN SURPRISED The arrival In the United Kingdom of lIve United States Government doc bound to tors to inspect I shipping America for bubonic plague has crc ated Home astonishment aa the special precautions against the plague were given up last month at most of lie has entered European ports while nocasejia5 tered an English harbor At huh ono doctor a d not assigned a of the outbreak ports of smallpox Is raging which severe so one United Stales Consul Informed l In-formed representative of the Aso formed nrepr < s < far more danger elated Press poiueSSO4 J ger than the bubonic plague Admiral Melville writes to tho Globe congratulating It on Its efforts to sa s o euro higher pay for naval engineers I 1 < < FURNACES SHUT DOWN Tbescarcity oPctuU continues to aicb1 nri extent that four Scotch pJSJro furnacesbaVO shut down Iha reMh reCQTd pJI Iqes It Is believed 1 tlZ Ii1tr1nSC11cy will 1 KS som what rell Vfri uhon the railroads become lees conK con-K > xtod with holiday tranic The continued con-tinued calling out of the reservists has r fl > cted the result as well as the col IIH According to one largo coal inor ibant the mincis thoroughly realise thai I 1 n restricted output Increases w agpn for loss work and they are by nn means anxious to relieve the situation situ-ation 1 In the meanwhllo the war continues con-tinues to Increase the demand and coni goes up The gas companies are reaping reap-ing largo prollts as a result BUYS ELECTRIC PLANT r At a cost of 120000 Birmingham has L bought from a private corporation the I llyM supply of electricity In 1SSC the t Hy sold it but now believing even ar such I advanced figures It will yield a lu go substantial profit It has bought it back |