Lord Rosebery and the Czar.

Manawatu Herald, 30 October 1894, Page 2

Lord Rosebery and the Czar.

Lord Rosebery, speaking at Sheffield, uttered an eloquent eulogy of the Czar as a worshipper of truth and peace, and declared that his death would remove the greatest guarantee of the peace of the world* He denied that the Cabinet had discussed the question of intervention in the East, or had issued a circular to the Powers and received a rebuff. Ha admitted that after the first Japanese victory, England learned that China was " willing to concede even more than Japan had demanded at the beginning of the war relative to reforms in Corea, and England, he explained, had sounded the Powers and the United States to ascertain if it was possible to arrange peace. Some, he said, thought the suggestion premature. He attributed the attacks of the foreign press on Great Britain to the latter's success in colonising, while foreigners failed in the same direction. Referring to Madagascar, he said that while France did not exceed treaty rights there England could not move. Within jk°. past two years there had been ptj^lls of anxiety as to the relations between England and France, but negotiations had led to a settle* ment of the disputes.