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Show 1 Eordgn News in Brief Because of Great Britain's position as Portugal's protector. Sir John N. Jordan. Jor-dan. British minister to China, Tuesday Tues-day In a friendly capacity counpoled tho foreign board In Pckin that China adopt arbitration as the best moans to n solution so-lution of the Macao boundary dispute. While China In a dispatch sent last Sunday Sun-day notified tho Portuguese government that It would not suhmlt tho matter to The Hague. It did not close the way to arbitration by some other court. Kinbassador Rpid sailed from London yesterday on tho steamer St. Louis from Southampton for New York to attend tho funeral of Mrs. Reld's father. D. O. MIIIk. Tlu- Chinese naval commission arrived In Berlin yestordny to make study of German naval affairs, l-rlnco Oscar nuJ tho visitors at the railroad station and accompanied them to tholr hotel. Roar Admiral Sebrco, Roar Admiral Barber and other officers of tho American Ameri-can squadron aro receiving much attention atten-tion In Toklo. Yostordnv they presented a gold cup from tho Philadelphia mint to the emperor. Several hundred American tourists on tho steamer Cleveland have been given elaborate receptions at Voko-homa Voko-homa and Toklo. M Planbcrg. head of the far eastern department of the foreign office nt St. Petersburg, haa been superseded for presenting a memorandum' to thc war minister, alleging that Japan was preparing pre-paring to attack Russia. Tho Ganoll of Brussels says the condition con-dition of ox-Bmpross Mario Chnrlottc. widow of tho la to Emperor Maxlmllllan of Mexico. Is causing grave anxiety. Sho has boon Insane for many years. |