Batavia, Oct. 02.
Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, HIM. Ambassador to China, and his family arrived at Macassar, in southern Celebes, to-day and are due at Bali to-morrow, and at Sourabaya on October 24. In Bali, Sir Hughe and his party will stay at the palace of the Governor-General Dr. A. W. L. Tjarda van Hackenborch Stachouwer, who is a personal friend of the Ambassador.—
Reuter.
New York, Oct. 19.
"We are faced with a situation where the President may make a mistake that would indeed be tragic and might lead to war," declared Mr. Alfred M. London, Governor of Kansas and unsuccessful Republican candidate in the last Presidential elections, in a speech. broadcast throughout the nation to-day criticize ing President Roosevelt's declaration at Chicago.
The President's impulsive "quarterbacking" and his readiness to assume the responsibility of a one-man government in international affairs, Mr. London said, was far more dangerous than the same tendencies in dealing with domestic affairs. Rightly they might ask how far President Roosevelt intended to go.
The President, Mr. London continued, spoke of quarantines, which meant either economic sanctions or a blockade. Our experience with Italy had proved the ineffectiveness Of sanctions, and that a blockade meant war.
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