ENGLAND AND CORTA.

Timaru Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 6063, 24 September 1894, Page 4

ENGLAND AND CORTA.

o. The New York Times' London oorrotpondent on August. 12th, after speaking of the toareity of war newa from Oorea, proceeds : " In the science of any knowledge of what the Mon. golian combatants are doing, attention is more and more drawn to the faot that there may be toon Caucasian combatants bs w< 11. Ihis seems to be the oaee among the f ( reigo popuhtion ia treaty ports. Business firms m London that are getting despatches from Shanghai, Tientsin, and other trading ports report that they are alive with all sorts of rumours of Bussian preparation And Russian forward movements. Meanwhile it has become fairly clear that Russia end France are on Japan's side, aud they assume that England is baoiing China. The danger of serious trouble liss m the inability or indisposition of Fracoo-Ruisian statesmen to distinguish between what official Xogland says and what unofficial irresponsible Jinftland, represented; m the trade of 20 treaty ports, is doing. The former is sincere, even strenuous, ' m its d«sire not to be embroiled m this row, and ii honestly striving to preserve the most oomefc neutrality. The latter is, on the other hand, np to Us ov.es m prao* tical Cbinoie partisanship — furnishing cup* plies, transporting troops and 100 illy flnano ing the whole Chinese nwtial outfit'base people are free lances as long as it is plain sailing, but the moment they strike a snag they ate British subjects and entitled to British protection. Frencb and Bussian papers duolino ti> separate the undoubted active support that oomtreroial England is giving to tba Ohineie from the attitude of official England, and their editorial utterances, we may fairly take it, refleot the vie«s of the Governments at Paris and St Petersburg. It is by a development of this potition that trouble will come if it oomes at all."