CABLE, NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] "GRATUITOUS INTERFERENCE."

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 95, 19 October 1904, Page 5

CABLE, NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] "GRATUITOUS INTERFERENCE."

THE TIBETAN TREATY. GERMANY CAUSES EMBARRASS- < MENT. - ACTION RESENTED. ANGLO-RUSSIAN INTERESTS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.P (Received October 19, 8.57 a.m.) LONDON, 18lh October. Dr. Morrison, the Pekin correspondent of The Times, states that Germany, in deference to Russian wishes, in 1901 affirmed that Manchuria was outside the Anglo-German agreement. Now, for the purpose of embarrassing Britain, she has persuaded China that if the Tibetan treaty is confirmed as it stands, Germany may demand a prescriptive right in Shantung, France similarly in Yunnan, and Japan in Fokien and Tangohauki.' The Chinese representative at Lhassa has been instructed to seek at Calcutta a modification of the treaty in order to save China's face. The Times Vienna correspondent says Germany has possibly overreached herself. Considerable embarrassment, almost amounting to vexation, is felt in St. Petersburg at Germany's proclaiming at Pekin the solidarity of German-Russian interests in Asia. The interference is intended to imply that Germany and Russia are united in their antagonism to Britain. Russia and Britain, as the greater Asiatic Powers, admit their mutual right to speak in the new adjustment of their own differences, and both resent the gratuitous interference of a third party having no .claim to speak as an Asiatic Power. Russia has informed the Court at Pekin that the objections taken to certain clauses in the Tibetan treaty are noi intended to imply the slightest animosity to Britain.