Show Vs IN THE LEBO SITUATION british gunboat has been dispatched to afford protection to foreign v interests ante esti airier amer leans icons inhere interested 5 td e I 1 washington Washing iob cable advices advises received at the state department indicate that a climax has been reached in the Ll berian situation conditions according to the information at hand are aie grave and great alarm Is felt by foreign officials in liberia Li borla A british gunboat Buil boat has arrived ai rived to afford protection to foreign interests and a company of soldiers has hag been pent eaf f r sierra leon I eon to the capital nt at monrovia 1 lo 10 n for the same purpose A apparently lipar great despondency despond ney ts is entertained as to the ability of the government to maintain itself and as aa to tho future of liberia as a nation fridays cables called renewed attention to the efforts of the state department part ment inaugurated by secretary root to secure an appropriation of to enable the president to send to liberia a commission with a view to reporting as to the specific action this government should take to afford relief curiously enough it was wag president lincoln who approved in 1862 a treaty leafy with Liber Li beila lit whereby its recognition 0 ignition knit tion lon Ps as an state was given gl ven and it was president lincoln Linco lil also who ho appointed the tirel diplomat mao of the united from 0 o time since the united states has haa intervened in boundary disputes making it clear that this government was most anxious to befriend liberia and have it continue as a |