Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 21 December 1895, Page 2

Foreign.

President Cleveland has presented a Message to Congress stating that, as Lord Salisbury refuses to submit the Venezuelan dispute to arbitration, it will be necessary for the United States to fix a boundary between the Republic and British Guiana. He urged that it was incumbent on Congress to vote the expenses of a Commission to determine the true frontier, and afterwards resist British aggression if the territory in dispute was recognised as belonging to Venezuela. Ifc would be a grievous thing for English peoples to be unfriendly, but supinn submission to wrong and injustice would be a worse calamity. He recognised all the consequences that might accrue. The Message, which was received with general applause and clapping of hands, was referred to the Com* mittee on Foreign Affairs. Mr Chandler, Mr Lodge, and other Senators who have been making themselves notorious lately be advocating the forcing of war on England, are delighted at the bellicose tone of President Cleveland's manifesto, and it is expected that both parties will endorse it. The New York press applauds the President's patriotic vigour, but some of the papers admit that it is merely a political manoeuvre to corner the Republicans. The New York World considers the Message a grave blunder, and that it is merely the raising of a " Jingo bugaboo." The World points out that Great Britain owns more territory in America than the United States, The Evening World says that twenty American warships will be stationed in the Carribpan R.'a wifchin immediate ca-U in the event of war. The New York Herald takes a calmer view, and hopes the question at issue will be peacefully settled. The House of Representatives, amid cheering, unanimously voted one hundred thousand dollars for the expenses of the Venezuelan Commission without debate. The chief American jurists do not defend President Cleveland's reading of the Monroe doctrine. Senator Chandler has tabled a Bill to expend 100,000,000 dollars in armaments. The sympathy of the Continental press is altogether with England. The head of the British column advancingupoD Ashantee has reached Prapsa. Six hundred scouts are prepared to cros3 into Ashantee when the bridge over the Prah is completed, which will be in a few days. The transport is presenting serious difficulties. The Spanish troops ha7e defeated a large body of Cubans at Oruces with great slaughter, their own loss only amounting to 100.