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BY LOYAT YHIS R Before long the great Trans-Persian rail-- way scheme will transcend all other issues in the Middle East. Already it dwarfs the internal problems of Persia, and the recent debate in the Housvol Commons, revealed the bold it has taken upon wen's minds.

The attitude of the Radical Party to-1U European Artistes wards the scherne need not concern us very mach. It is dictated, not by anxiety about M the safety of India but rather by hatred of Russia. Had the Trans-Persian line bean A German project it would have been over- whelmed with benodictions, Although Russia ia literally the most democratic Country in the world to-day, it is hated because in some muddled, way it is sup. posed to be at variance with the Intangible | thing called Liberalism. Radical oppori- ting to the Trans Pérsian schomo, arises from sentimental hostility to Russia and bas little relation either to the merits of

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Dover be allowed to approach India. Lord Kitchener hurried on his great distribution scheme because he alarmed when Russia built a new line from Orenburg to Tashkent. And now we are asked not only to open the door but to build the way thither."

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tive is bursting through frcaliers, se it burst through the walls of Paking and the re-Great Wall of China. We cannot rasit

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There is no reason why we should try to do so. Fe e naot tell | poople that they must continue to take might reach there in seven days fourteen days to get to Indis when they

ase of Commons ence decided The Bd A that to bui at

bring about the dis Westminater on across the Thames raption of England. When we are enter ing Calcutta express at alais wa shall place the opposition to the Trans-Persian Railway in the same category, as that re- markable resolution.-Daily Mai.

The 10swer to these objections is that it was never contemplated that Tadia should for ever remain isolated by land from the world without. The founder of the Middle Estern school of politicians was the late Sir Henry Rawson, pun of whom Lord Curzon once confessed that he took him as bis exemplar. Rawlinson was the earliest exponent of what he believed to

to be the Ruskin menace, but he also diclared that a scheme for continuous iron road to unite Fast and West" eight ru

to enlist the common sympathy and support of all the European Powers. British soldiers have repeatedly

and civil "administrators

sought to extend railways from India west-

word. Lord Roberts wanted to build a

PRINCE OF POETS..

Quaint Ceremony in Latín Quarter.

Pamis, July 0.

After a fortnight of great excitement in

line to the Feiwar Kotel in 1890, Vast the Latin Quarter, which spread, in a

quantitica of rails for a line to Kandahar certain degree, over all Paris, & Paal Fort collected at Chaman; on the Afghats from

tier, and possibly are there still. Lord has been elected to the honorary, throne of Curzon netually

built

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the Prince of Poets, left vacant by the projected line from Quetta to Seitan, Lord death of Léon Dierz. The election was Kitchener urged the Amir Habiballah to carried on chiefly by appeale ip the columns builds

srailway from the Khyber to Kabul. Three years ago, when I was standing on of the Press to those whose opini na were the fort at Jamrad, I saw the mysterious deemed worth recording, and this eclectic line built by Lord Kirchener from that method seems to have satisfied all con, spot along the Kabul River valley towards Afghanistan. For some reason or other itcerned. has since been torn up by Lord Morley.

THE WORLD CANNOT STAND STILL.

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The large answer to the military objec: tions is, however, that military plans and strategy must be readjusted to meet change ing conditions. The world cannot stand still. The first bows and arrows must seriously disturbed the staff clicers of the fiat-axe armies. The Duke of Wellington declared that railways would raia England. Consider, for example, the extraordinary changes which aeroplanes will produce in the next war. The whole principle of the Cavalry screcu which was supposed to shield an army's advance is already obsolete. Ан в кушан,

I do not believe that the Trace Perrinn Railway will hare the slightest material effect upon the security of India, Failways in Europe have never precipitated war. The Siberian

brought to Railasy

to a head a

Is conflict that had been brewing for forty years, but only because it traversed Hussian territory alone and ended in one of the richest and most fertile provinces of the Fast. The grim bills of Mokra and the dosects of Esatorn Pernis will still intervene between Indin and a line

It is nevertheless an original system which consecrates the principality of Paul Fart by 338 votes over Paul Fouchon, who secured 90. and all the other postulate. who together did not scares hundred. So that out of the millions of readers who may imagine that they have a word to any only some 500 or 600 have decided the The Enal scene took place in question, the offices of the "Gil Bins," where all the literary critics of Paris liad been in- vited, and where a considerable gathering of the clans was ed. The votes llected by Gil Blas," "La Commedia," L

Loups," Phalenge,"

" and "Paris Midi were then checked and added toge ther, and the result announced as above amidst great applause, especially thie hawling of the loups" for the success of their particular candidate. M. Jean Royere then read out the proclamation as follows:--

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Habemus principem poetarum excellen tem et festivissimum poetam Paulum Fortein gallicé Paul Fort, quem acclamare decet latine, en luce nostro corean tri- buntur, secundum antiquum morem, certe Ronsardi ant Vilionis tempore digniorem. 1 a possible invader. The trun After this a rush was made to

"A certain of advance on Indian for a rorthern fne literary café, in the Latin Quater where will remain, as it is been since history Paul Fort habitually helde his court, and began, through Afghanistan.

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Paul Fort is forty years of age and mar Colony lor over ten years the glorious news was given to him. M. to European officials and merchants in this ried. In 1890 be founded the "Theatre l'Art." In the same year he published

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