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VOTELESS WOMEN.
VANYUL OF VIRAGOES,
A Daily Telegraph writer contributes the following amusing account of the Intent ebolli. tion of the "better half" in her campaign against the "bubmerged tenth "re
The Suffragist nuisanes continues, thus bear- ing eat the truth of the rather cynical marin
LAW REPORT, FEB. 12.
JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE~PRIYT- COUNCIL.
(Penant-The EARL of HAIBBURT, LORD MACNAGHTER, LORD ATKINSON, and SIR ARTHUR WILSON)
KUULJI CHINOY AND OTHUÉS,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 131, 1908.
the cantonment authorities did not deal with NEW DOCKS FOR LONDON. title or possession, but gare permission to use it. the land already conveyed for the particular parpose of
Tower of Bilance, and to enclose the land. Those were matters obviously within the discretion of the commanding offer, for thay might affect the convenient occupation of the cantonmarit. The effect of the two doon monte was to show a good title in the founders, and not in the Parsee community. What happened founders admittedly enclosed the land and erected a Tower of Silenes upon it at their own expense. About the same time, or shortly. afterwards, they erected Fire Temple upon land which they acquired by privato purchase, and endowed it. The evidence as to the posses-
PuoraCT DESIGNED BY GRAVESEND PILOT. Tilbury in connection with the Port of London A project for the building of now doska at scheme has been prepared by Mr. R. H. Holland,
Graverend pilot.
that the last granture fo ba civilised will be PESTONJI JIVANJI AND OTHERS V. SHAPUat afterwards caly confirmed that view. The Woman. We must thank, however, the orga nisers of the futile scene of yesterday for the evident pains which had been taken to refresh their drooping lies and import a touch of originality into a performance which had grown to tell the trath-wotally dull. It acrpried to someone that use might be made of the roomy depths of a pantechalton yan! Might not the van rumba quietly down Whitehall, turn into Old Palace Yard, with the explanation
that it had been ordered to dail for the efles furniture of a shaky Ministry, and, when it had drawn up near the entrance, who should binder the doors from being thrown open and a band
"A PARAME TOWER OF SILENCE."-Thix war an appeal from a dearto of the Judicial Commissioner of the Haidarabad assigned dis triste of December 12, 1901, reversing a judg. ont of the Superintendent of the Residency Bozars at Haidarabad.
Mr. Jardine, K.C., and Mr. Leslie Da Grayther sppeard for the appellante Mr. G. E.
A. Hess for the respondents,
The case was argued in November, when judgment was reserved.
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George, and have been approved by two of the The plans have been laid before Mr. Lloyd. landing steamship companies. The scheme is to utilise a tract of land adjoining the Tilbury Docks,
The details are sa follow :— Total area covered ..... Water aron
Depth of water
Total length of gunys Number of berths Warehouse are...
474 acres.
242 acres.
45 feet.
Smilee.
30
51 acres.
of chosen Amazons lesping forth to storm the Lordships' judgment, 'said this was a contro. /.#omewhat obanged. And in these early years constructed, since it was necessitated by the from the chronicles of the police, who sonstiges
Borrowed
Mr. Holland told an Express" repressuta. tive that a larger dock would have to be requirements of ships, which were inorensing
dock could be constracted.
Tilbury was the only possible place where
daily
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on, management, and control of the Tower of Bilence and of the land on which it stood showed those to have been in the founders. The only The docks would socommodate vezels up to question being who were the original guarantees. 1,000 feet long and drawing thirty-five fest of
events of the early years, after the acquisi-water. They would be able to enter and leave. tion of the land and the erection of the tower, at all states of the tide. were much more important than those of later years, when the circumstances of the parties bad they found from the correspondence that the pricata referred such difficulties or questions obeyed those orders, The founders certainly, as arose for the orders of the founders, and down to
863, boze the whole expense of the establishment and all costs of maintenance and munity were not represented by any committee or other organisation. Therefore during theas years the founders had no rivals in respect of possession and anthority of the head priest was pozcossion and control, for the suggested negatived by bis own letters to the founders After 1863 the Parsee community from tims to time subscribed money in all of additions and
a committes representing in some sense the years could throw tuto light open the various phases of the relations between Japan Usture of the grant of, or soon after, 1837. and the United States. Referring to his new Their Lordships were of opinion that the view appointment, Barou Takahira said:
It must be remembered that I am not going of the easy taken by the Judge who tried it to Washington on any special missicu, and Majal that the dearea of this Judicial Corsabject to discuss. I return to the United was correct. They would humbly advise his therefore, it is evident that I have no special it chef the Court, of the Superintezcent Siates in the capacity of a rosidont represent
Bir Arthur Wilson, in now delivering their versy between various maribers of the Parece bring up pose that way to the dear of nu commonuity relative to land situated in the illicit gaming-lous, i posibly suggested by stood a Parses tower of silence. In or about Sikandarabad cantotment on a portion of which some daughter of the Higher Education who remembered the Tale of Troy and that fatal 1805 the respondents, purporting to not on monster, the Wooden. Horreiteelt. the beball of the Parse community, resolved to repair. During those years the Parsed.com most classical of pentechbicon varu, The plot erect on the land in question a second towor was carefully devised, though we have still to of silence in addition to that already there. The lean bow the gallent band of gisters was appellants objected claiming as do condants and what arms they bure, and round what Negotiations for a esttlement having failed, choist,
representatives in title of the original founders. dark corner the van was drawn up for them to.
the appellants filed the present suit. eater. The public has yet to be told who was
They the leader of this bold emprice, whether strict alleged that the founders were in their lifetime
lence was enjoined on all within the van,
the owners of the land in question, and that whether ony mouse moved in thestraw, whether
the property had devolved upon themselves, and their getting forth. When she pantechnicos tent. The respondents, who were defendants in
gorner of Parliament street, did their hearts
to the whole Parsos community for a public pur- heat land? When the police-Oh! blind minds pase, nad to saure for the benefit of that com of mortal men smooibel its onward passage unity generally for all time, by the canton- did 348
bask : Was there to toothless went authority. The Judge who tried the case. mastiff bound at St. Stephin's to Enounce the appellante, and granted-in-njaunotion. On decided in favour of the plaintiffs, now approach of the lovely
by Indy Charle appeal the Judicial Commissioner reversed that When the apie di seribing
AMBASSADOR'S SFAVEMENT. with Baron Takabira, the newly-appointed Reuter's representative has had an interview Japanese Ambassador to the United States, who had just arrived in London on vacating his post at Rome, and was leaving immediately to assume his new post at Washington. On his arrival ble Excellency was met by Reuter's representa
any omeny, kuspicious or the reverse, attended they complained of the respondents' ancroach- improvements, and from 1882 onwards thera was tifs, to whom he courteously accorded an inter
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The history of orime holds no more thrilling story than that which was unfolded in London at the trial of Frauz Von Veltheim. The prisoner, whose real name is Kurt, is fifty years and a batire of Brunswick. He was
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Was Momentarily held up by the traffic at the the suit, asserted that the land had been granted community. But what bappened in those lata vion, and with whom he discussed at some longib was not, of course the subject of oross
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of pinion that this charge was brought home to the accused man beyond the possibility of reasonable doubt, The romantic part of the Bass was not however, reached till a detective- inspector was called to say what was known of bia past life. The story given by the police examination, but was
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Vou Veltheim bat carried on his business Without accepting it as incontestably true the reader may well stand amazed at the reckless dating which, combined with absolute ext-ordinary read of brilliant reposture and disregard of the duties of law and morale;
by the poetess of the movement, we hope then presexit appeal. The founders were two restored. The respondents would pay the costs where 1 virtually, commenced my diplomatic for a generation and to live handsom ly upon The Triumph of Woman comes to be written f dicision and dismissed the pit. Henge the and that of the Court of the Superintencentative of any country. Washington, is the place enabled the accused man to prey upon society
the episode of the lantechbicon Van wil, ceive it just and adequate treatment. The plot succeeded. 'l be walle were scaled. The vau entered Old Palace Yard, and in the twinkling of an eye a score of breathless women
and
THE ASIATIC QUESTION IN AMERICA.
career As you know, I have been there twice before, once as Secretary, and on the last occasion as Minister. Now I go for the third time,
are
the proceeds of a hundred frauds. He began Ho, we property. He deserted from the German Nary, bold, by stealing his father's
and took the name of a Germst officer whose
I am delighted to return to a city and belongings, marked with his crest, he has uguntry, where I have so many friends. I cannot at this time help recalling to mind my
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Melarji, who in 1837 and afterwards carried on brothers, Farseas, Pestonji Maherji and Viccaji of the appeal. basiness as bankers at Haidarabad and in other places. It appeared from the corresponder.ce that, at about that time, they had made
up their
M ETING OF EXCLUSION LE OUR8, were racing for the doer and the sterk of what minds to make Haidarabad their af with strange perversity, they persist in be. they determined at the same time lo
having, scording to his own story, served stoleu, He went to Australia about 1886, lieving to be the gate of Paradie. Men have Tower of Silence, for which purpose it was
Ean Francisco, Feb. 4th. not found it so why should women. They the tower could be built and to a tablish the Leagues of the Pacific Count States of this
£750 by blackmailing a man who had up- necessary both to obtain the ground on which Aecovention of the Asilio Ezolusion
at Perth in that year, and afterwards raised in the Servo-Bulgarian War. He married would bare sped along the corridor and thrust their way into the sanctum but for the police necessary priests for carrying on the services country and of British Columbia began at Bul foc the police! Luat in the sternal cry of and ceremonies required by the Parsee religion. Seattle, yesterday. One hundred and flygarding the relations between one two fritto to America and thouou to the troubled You Bak me planted bim in the affectious of his wife. He the bred, The Philistine plice were too strong most of priests, verything was done by the bro before the convention, which lasts three days, always regarded Amerionus as our good as a business and Consentar agent in the State
It was clear that with regard to the establish delegates were present, and more are expected wountries. I can only say that I have States south of Panama, for them. But for the polisy Troy was saved thers Pestonji and Viccaji. They found the pro- ends. Practically all be delegates are members friends, and a
There he cred There was no need for the pious uers of the
friemilabip at a time Ministry- we will not particularise--to take the He got slanted; use Uni tem to settle at of labour unions, the leaders being agitators of stress and difficulty is always doubl; appre-of Colombia, but in 1835 drewrted his post, Father of the House on bis back and lead the spot selected; they undertack the respon. San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver My ciated. I know of an truge friends of Japan carrying off, it is said. 6 of money which infant Iulos forth to safety. The women were sibility for their salaries, though the priests were correspondent at Seattle telegraphs ---
than the Americans, who have all along believed belonged to others. During this period, his thrust back; baffled, but radiant ard. arger to be at liberty to receive fees for ceremonials
Mr. Tweiluce, president of the Exclusion in the justice and truth of our aims. This habitante of those parts mitigate the tedium of debbled in the revolutions with which the is- tell the story over and over agair, Mean from other Parsees. They also, through, their League of San Francisco, is chairman of the precious sympathy will be a lifelong memory while, at the righbouring: Caxton Hall, a
agents at Sikandarabad, made all the necessary convention. Mr. Tweitmoe is an ex-convict, I have not been turnished with the latest he darted his wife, and in 1896 bigamensly arrangements for obisining the site required. but the Radical element put him up to head the details of the negotiations still in progress, but
their ordinary existence. Returning to Europe Parliament of women representatives, as it
The most important document relied on the convention. It is already apparent that the ting in wrath and derouncing the Govern
the excellent relations existing between us, and
married in London. German lady, from whom ment. All the past heroines of the movement
plaintifs was the following: Ijat Balkishta Radicais favour a memorial to Congress demand our good knowledge of each other, will ensure an
he got £1,500. He married a Grees lady, niad were there, the Andromedas was had obsined Reddy, Mucaddure of the village of Bholucking this sheelzte exclusion of Orientals. amicable wirst goment being reached at an early in Loudan, in 1997, and abeconded with £300 Admiralty, but whose knowledge is thought themselves to the failings of Downing street pere, in the District of Hou Sangar, may though oficial figures show that the influx data without rauch, dienlty. I have not a
of ber monry: Abandoning bigamy for a to be as great as his judgment is sagacious. No. the martyrs of Holloway, the patient endurers you be well, year 1248 Bal-... Fadli The of Japanese is not increasing to any appreciable partials of don't of America's sympathy for ur 1897, joined the Cape Mounted Rifles, was in this preparation of the articles, aud-I al military career, he went to South Africa in official or secret document of any kind was used of magisterial sarcasm, thejected from many Pestouji and Viceaji having applied, and
reason of writing this is that the bankers extent, the league is making fight on the ground and fully believe that satisfactory solution of dismissed, and then started blackmailing much smaagd by the suggestiou that they reflect acrowded meeting. And there were also present Government having sanutioned the grant to of employment. In bis address of welcome, the
that the Japanese are driving white laboar ont the questions between us will be forthcoming.. recrnit detachroents from Lancashire, burning the mof the hill, which is near Gattula Nagauna Mayor of Seattle raked fors sane, dispassionate.
wealthy Uitlanders. The episode of his privato discussions and decisives of the to win Metropolitan distinction and to refurb
relations with the Joels, whom he alleges to Admiralty." hems to their neglected but admiring husbands Kumta, in the Derial Bhavi Kanche, within consideration of the issues involved, The
have engaged him us an engineer of a rebellion "Kyary statement I made with respect to with new sess won in the fight for the god bener, the Talundar Raju Bang Rao Bahaeur Washington State, declares in
the boundary of the said village, for depositing Post Intelligence, the leading newspaper of
in the Trausvaal, is not the least remarkable official opinions and intentions can be sub cause. A resolution demanding the immediate hae seat order, and, therefore, it is hereby article that the convention is uncalled for a leading
in his story. He was tried for the murder of stantiated by date accessible to anyone who enaciment of a meature gronting the Parlin written that you deliver up the said bill to the at
one member of that family, but was acquitted has the privilege of being in close touch with mentory Franchise to duly qualified women was
this time and that a discussion
and deported to Delagoa Bay. The English three or four of the ablest naval experts not said ban. ers Prefonji and Viccaji. Note that the question by prejudiced and unprincipled
Government deported him again from the within the Admiralty anz upob active service, this is peremptory order in this matter. The agitators will seriously inam per the diplomaid
Transvaal during the war, and he reappear and who has also devoted, as I have, no date the 25th Rabiul-awal, 124 1848)-Ibrahim, Naib The trial Judge held Tagan. The fatelligzacer alts that the
nutrian crowns for the purpose of digging up years, and inore especially during the last June, tagolintious between the United States bad
ed at Trieste, where he raised a million inconsiderable amount of time for the last ten a mythical herds of President Kroger's goldeten mon he, to the study of the suprem again later at Saint Cloud, near Paris, drawing He married again in South akota in 1900), and etion of the Navy and its future." up a friend to perform the part of the priest. la 1905 he got over half million marks from a widow lady, who committed sninide when the heard of his arrest. When arrested in a smart hotel in Paris, be was staying with a woman whom, strange to say, he has omitted to marry.
d then the frenzied cry RO the. Hones The Peel cols pointed out that the who went must be
prepared for urreal, but on the us who went-her blessing. She herself remained behind. So did the majority. The others rushed forth in s confused feminine inob, only to run up against a wall of stolid, inevitable, resistless police, who neited all who insisted on being notted, and sent the rest scarying lack to Caxton Hall. Who it impressed by the 10 unseemly scene, which, wo four, will-growing her and rougher with each resort to violence, though the police hamour Which are worthy of the highest praise?
continne to how * forbearance and good
TEBRODE.
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delegates are unwelcome visitors at Seattle,"
The anti-Asiatic movement has now spread to Denver, where a Yellow Peril Exclusión League" has been formed.
THE PHILIPPINES SCARE.
WHAT I REALLY BEING DONE,
New York, February 11tb. The Navy Department now admit that it has been decided to make Manila Bay a great Naval base for the United States Flost the Far East. This is quite in accordance with the views of
sativination in both services.
all the Naval and Military experts, and it will
give general.
this Government has been engaged sending It is no secret now that for the past six months henry guns to the Philippines, and in bringing the stocks of explosives and coal to the fallest possible. local capacity, zot, it has been from time to time semi-officially explained, through any distrust of the friendly intentions of the Japanese bat at the dialates of elementary imposed upon this country by its position, as a great world Power,
GERMANY'S POLICY.
~MOROCCO ̈ÂND PERETA,
Some important statements were made by.
"A labour organizer named Young appeared prudence, and ia pursuance of the high policy. Even if we dadget something for the imagina Horr von Schön during the consideration of the
that to be a genuine docoment, assigning cogent The appeal Judge pointed ent circumstances which be thught threw suspicion "pon it; but he did not overrule the fading 1hat it was genuine Their Lordships saw no The American Federation of Labour, with a sufficient ranan why they should reject that membership of more than two million working lading. The next document of high importance men, is apparently about to engage actively in Parsees of Sikandarabad have permission, by was the following Thai ertify that the the spiration against the Japanese 3ly Sostile order of Brigadier Wahab, CB., commanding
correspondent Telegraphs:→ Haidarabad Subsidiary Force, te enclose the bill before the Convention of Asiatic Freins on by name Nomarunghatt for a Burying place, Leagues yesterday to advocate the passage by the circumferance of which is about (18) sigh Cougress of a law absolutely excluding Japanese teen bundred feet, and immediately adjoining Mr. Young newically holds the position of State the south end of. Nawgaush's garden and near organizer for the Washington Labour Federa the public Bearer's line in rear of the canton- tion, but in reality he is a personal representa ment of Sikandarabad. This bill is given for a tive of Mr. Samuel Gompers, president of the tower only to be built on its summit HF. F. American-Federation of Labour. He is attend Considine, Assistant Q M-General, Haidarabading the convention as the result of a telegram Subsidiary Force, Sikandarabad, 15th January, from Mr. Gompers giving him authority to set 1839," That document was stually obtained on
for the national president. Mr. Young mada bonif of the two brothers, though their agent;
an impassioned speech, in which be declared that but it was the matter upon which the respondents the influx of Japanese had raised in the West chiefs reated their case. Their consution was a race question ten times as important as the that it formed the real root of title to the land, negro question in the South, and that, unless He looked appreciably older and stouter than and that by its terme the grant was one to the the tide of immigration were checked at once, when I last heard him, but, if his sonstenance Parses community generally, and not to the two
the Japanese would control the Pacific slopa in betrayed a growing hear of disappointment, brothers personally. It was well to consider 25 years. A public meeting will be held this his speech was se virile and eloquent as ever.
the authority from which each document issued morning at which the memorial to be presented Brufly pui, Mr. Bryan's programme, save for and the relation one to the other. The first to Congress will be discussed. There is little one or two points, constitutes an absolute en clearly was issued by an officer of the Haidarn
doubs that the memorial will demand the passage dorsement of Fresident Hossevelt's policies, bed state, and it purported to express a trans-
of a Jepnurseexclusion law at least as stringent which, bo claitas, the Republican Party will notion, by which the State had assented to the as the law against Chinese Times. never even attempt to carry out. His theme grant of the land to the two brothers, and "thou shalt not steal lent itself to fin directed possession of it to be delivered to
MR. BRYAN'S CAMPAIGN.
**PEFTY AND GLORIOUS. LARUZNY, " Mr. W. J. Bryan the peerless leader" and tba “continuous candidates," as his supporters and opponents ratiously nickname bime was Dimooratio candidate in 1896 and 1900 and failed to get the nomination in 1904-fired the first gun in the Carnegie Hall to his campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination, A correspondent writes
second pa ported to be immed
by the authority of the Brigadier Commanding the Haidarabad Subsidiary Fores, a force which had its headquarters in the Sikandarabad Cantonment. The force was in the um
denunciatory treatment, and in differentiating. them. The various degress of larosny-potty grand, and glorious the continues oandidate showed himself a master satirist, able to beat Mr. Roosevelt at his game of invective,
He declared war ruthlessly on the Wallstreet ployment of the East Indian Company and gamblers who, he asserted, robbed the country commanded by the Company's effcere, but main
f larger amounts every year than all the other tained by agrement to Haiderabad territory riminals put together. Worse than Monte for the protection of the Nizam. (Aitchison's Carlo is the New York Stock Exchange, Mr. Treaties, vol. 8, p. 264). The research of coun- Bryan said. It is a veritable gambler's hell, she was table le discover any treaty prescribing and ought, to bo
deprived by law of the power the limits of the powers of the Nizam's to wresk further harm on the country."
on the one hand and the military commander Silver argued that President Roosevelt bad Over and over again the ex-apostle of Free
atolen his thunder, which alone voiced the cry- ing needs of the nation,
After the enthusiastic endorsement which
RICH MAN'S CAREER AS THIEF.
FOCKET-PICKING AS A HOBBY,
/
foundation for recent reports as to an enormons It by no means follows that there is any real. increate in the strength of the United States Navy in Far Eastern waters. There is undoubtedly to be some increase, but those who glibly talk of establishing a permanent doet of sixteen battleships in the Philippines Naral commend go very wide indeed of the mark.
The first care of the present Administration; Is it must be of any succeeding Government at Washington, must be to establish at least three fortified naval bases, strategically situated in the Philippines. It is known that the engineers are at work upon two of these at the present moment, and this fact explains the constant dispatch of guns, explosives, and coal to the Philippines, already referred to, not only from American, but from British and European ports. Certainly, rotblag has been done that could be fsitly construed by the most bellicosu of Japanese publicists into a menace to Japan, In other words, all that has been done" has been entirely within the rights of the United States.
"NOT BRITSH" BILL...
LAW WHICH ADVERTIES FOREIGN GOODS, been trying for twenty years to pass a little Although Sir Howard Vincent, M.P., bu
1887 he dare sot despair.
Bill
amending the Merchandise Marka Act of
The double life of a wealthy and respected man has been disclosed by the remarkable con fession of Louis Wolf, a manufacturer, of Brooklyn, who is in prison for a scies of remarkable thefts. For years Wolf. lived in the high esteem of his fellow citizens, who cheerily to an Express! representative last considered him the some of respectability
monte.. When, three weeks ago, he was arrested and charged with being a common pick pooks, his
will get it through eventually," he said
control, and disposition of the cantonment and on the other with respect to the management, is fluential friends rallied to his rescue and the British for the phrases" Made in Germany"
WAR
tion of those who compile police records, lbs fact alleged compose a story which is wheily Foreign Offee Estimates by the Budget without parallel. That Von Veltheim must Commission of the Reichstag. With regard to saying. Hail" his capacity been diverted into German attitude was based on trestiny. Thay have been a man of great ability goes withon: the situation in Morecer, he said that the legitimate channels he must have made a no- osssful sareer either in public or in private lite. Their entire politics allion in this matter claimed nothing more than the open door. His case in one which illustrates the truth that rested on the basis of tin Algeciras C vention. there are certain men who are simply prodatory The Casa lemon componention question would animals, to whom the laws and discipline of come to a satisfactory solution. Germany had civilisation are a mere joke, who regard as fair provisionally advanced 250,000 marks, which game the many foolish persons who inhabit the was 20 per cent of the estimated amant of world. The most interesting of his qualities the damage. Only direct injury had been was his apparently irresistible power over the considered. The French action had a provisional faible sex. Their weakcees was exploited by him character. France did not wish to go outside a socre of times with a perfectly callous and the limits of the Algeciras Convention. Her perfectly successful cruelty. There is one touch procedure in Morocco did not infringe this of deep tragedy in the story--the death of a instrument. The statements of the French woman who, it seems, loved him to the last and Government on this point were meant in who died by her own hands when she heard that absolutely good faith. his marvelous career had closed.
His story
Herr Erzberger (Centre) asked how things must be unessy reading for our dramatists. Ittend with the Bagdad Railway. It was being pats to shame the boldest flights of their fancy bullt with German capital, but would it not promote the interests of two Powers which had divided spheres of interest in Pursia batwosz them-England and Russia. Herr von Schön, said the Bagdad Railway and the Anglo-Passion- Agreement had nothing to do with one another. Germany only bed an interest in the economio development of Persia. The signatories to the agreement had renounced interference with the rights of other Powers. In the agreement
NAVY SECRETS.
REMARKABLE LETTER FROM SIR JOHN. FISHER.
The "Observer," which published information equal rights in economio matters for all uations on Britain's Navy policy to the effect that the were expressly adhered to. Under the conces ern of economy was over, and that more and sion by the Saltau the Bagdad Railway „WAS A
tar
editor.
of Dreadnoughts would be laid dowa to Turkish undertaking with a German obaracter. meet foreign rivals, gives, a correspondence How far the railway would be carried out would that resalted between Sir John Fisher and the depend on how far the Turkish Government was in a position to pay the guarantee of 16,500 Sir John Fisher writes to Mr. J. L. Garvin marks per kilometre. They had absolutely no I write to you, as cultor of the Observer, polition intentions in connection with this They only desired to reopen to be so kind as to inform me in regard to the naval artioles in the Obsorver of Inst Suuday,
(1) Who wrote the articles ? (2) Wo iospired them ?
the country of an old civilisation, and make new territorise accessible to trade and industry. Their alleged colonising sims belonged to the region of fantasy. So far as foreign capital was called in, the German character of the modertaking would always be preserved.
Herr Erzberger further complained that the
The Bill socks to substitute the words "Not
police released him with fervent apologies for frequently seen on imported manufactured Made in Belgium, etc., which are "80 the land comprised in it. And it appeared their blunder. Wolf was a prominent clubman clear that no such treaty ever was in existence. and had a thriving business, but despite this he reads. When the Nizam's Government admitted a
As the Act stande at present, all imported
enterprise. was arrested again two days ago, and now con Democratio Senators and Congremmen extended British force within its territory and bilottod fesses that he has all his life been a professional goods which bear English trade marks or to President Roosevelt's latest pronaolamente to it the Sikandarabad Cantonment as its head.tbiet Afteen years old he fell into thede in England, have to bear a definite indica- English words tanding to show that they were the atlituds of Mr. Bryan suggests the inter- quarters it no doubt, by necessary implication,
When tion of a large section of Democrats to ride into conveyed to the military authorities all powers clutches of & New York Fagin and
tion of the country of origin. Sir Howard
(3) What papers were placed at the contends that such phrases act as
writer's disposal F power upon the wave of reforms created of jurisdiction, control, and management in educated in all the tricks of pocket-picking.
8 gratuitous
**Lord Tweedmouth asks me to obtain this by the present Administration. Mr. Roosevelt cident to maintaining the effcienny and the At this nefarious trade he proved wonderfully advertisement for foreign gouds.
We could not interest the Board of Trade, information, and, as the inference is that the spoke leat week in order to drewn the quieter discipline of the troops and the pesod std good apt, but after a career of crime. chequered by in the matter until the advont of Mr. Lloyd-writex of these articles has been given secret German colonists in Asia Minor found sorious counsels of Governor Hagher, of New York, order and convenient use of the cantonment. But several periods of imprisonment in Chicago and but the Republican Party in profoundly irritat it would be going a long way beyond that to hold St. Louir, he returned to New York with the George, who, when he pale his politics in his and confidential facts, improperly obtained, obstacles opposid to their acquisition of land, ed by his utterances.
that the office
commanding the troops could be firm determination to be honest. He established pocket and devotes himself to trade, is, in my and been given the fallest information in regard and asked for more vigorous olleial support in Mr. Brian, on the other hand, has convinced held empowered to alienate in perpetuity land a rug manufactory with his ill-gotten gains, opinion, the beat President we have ever had to private discussions and decisions at the this direction.
Herr von Schon said he had no objection to the Democrats that they can susure excess forming part of the cantonment, and un. and thrived.
**Mr. Lloyd George told the House of Com Admiralty I hope you may see your way to by prosecuting the policies enascisted by the doubtedly Haidarabad territory, for a purpose About three years ago he became intoxicated, mone last year that it was alsolutely essential transgress, if necessary, any journalistic rules satisfying this demand.
The Hague correspondent of the Berliner President, Democrate, especially in New whey unconnected with military requirements. he says, by a craving for excitement, which something should be dne, and quickly. The to the contrary, and kindly furnish me fally and York, however, are but lukewarm advocates Those considerations must be borne in mind in proved irresistible, and though he did not need sound reading of the Bill was passed, and in with complete exactitude the answers as to Tageblatt understands that the negotiations of his candidature. The New York World is estimating the effect of the two doonments the money, returned to his evil courses, robbing Grand Committee the Government redrafted these peints, and so relieve the suspected dis- for the guarantee of the statue quo in the closer of official secrets (whoever he may be in North Sea were started on the personal initia organising a grand campain against Mr. Bryan cited; There appeared to be no real difficulty for the mere fan of it. Be made in this way, and took charge of it,
Mr. Blooney a Nationalist member,
the minds of the inquirers) of the stigma now tive of the German Emperor. On his visit to
on him." ing their effect, The first, emanating from the
managed, however, to stop it."
Helland last December his Majesty' regretted "I really desiro
resting nothing State, purported to deal with and enforce, a honest," deolares Wolf," but I cannot resist the
Mr. Garvin replies that he both inspired to find that there were still people there who grant of the land by the State to the two call of the wild inbred in me,
"In astonished
it is remembered that £154,000,000 worth of and wrote the articles which no one saw believed that Germany was seeking to exercise With the founders by name and the delivery of possession grief the wealthy friends of the prisoner have foreign manufactured goods are imported in before they appeared The correspondent guardianship over their country. to them. The second document, emanating from ' now abandoned him to his fate,
one year-an increase of £145,000,000 over 1851 referred to indicates a person holding object-of dissipating this idea he inaugurated A great proportion of these is sold a British. position entirely unconnected with the the pending negotiations.
and in favour of Governor Johnson, of Min- | i reconciling the two documeaty and sppreciat; he says, £2,000 a year. more than to be the importance of the matter is soon when
nesota.
Both Democrats and Republicans, in fact, are in the throes of bitter dissension regarding their candidates for the Presidential nomi-
pation.