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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESUAY, FEBRUARY 10-

IN THE BALKANS,

A Useful Summary of the Eastern Question. free

"There will be trouble in the

forbid the use of boxing gloves Balkans in the spring," said the by boys in the workhouse. Hr. E. Penna, moving the resolution, old war correspondent in Kip- aid that boxing as a rule led to ling's story, "The Light that fighting!

Crie Phillippine " Indians." The following is from

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It is not often that conclusiona upon an international question" hold good, for the most part, after close upon seventeen years. The vane of Justice veers during such a period, and veere again, until right becomes wrong and wrong becomes right by reason of new demands and new com Baron Kato, ex-Janpanese Amplications. But Mr Norman's artiole remains as substantially bassador in London, arrived at Shimbashi on the 28th all from true to-day as it did when writ England. He was accompanied ten. The "Eastern Question" has been proved true.) "To-day the naval guide, the "Taschenbuch fastnesses and plains of the Bal der Kriegaflotten." (1913). The by Mr. Karachi, Vice-Minister of not greatly changed. Foreign Affairs, and Marquis K. In the autumn of 1895 Mrkans, reddened ■ thousand times gun is indeed several sizes larger, Komurs, son and heir of the late Norman set himself to dis with the blood of patriote, vocal to speak familiarly, than the most Marquis Komura, who proceeded cover, at first hand, what was with the crying of centuries of powerful type at present used in to Kodzu to meet him. Among this Eastern Question, ita murdered Abels, pour out for yon the German navy. Even the last those who were at the station to constituent parte, its factors, everywhere their purple wine of the German vessels to be with reckless prodigality. A launched, the 24,000-ton bat- terrors, of its Rumbold, British "Charge To the end he visited the Balkans deeper vintage must yet be presa-tleships Konig Albert and Prinz d'Affaires; Prince Tokugaws, and discovered for himself. In ed from these fields of nature's regent Luitpold, and vessel of the President of the House of Peers; article under notice he paints a smiles and man's passions. Who same class, the Kaiserin (which has Viscount Oura, Minister of Homs few pictures of the lands of santh will be taken and who left at the already been launched thirteen Affairs; Mr. Wakatsuki, Minister eastern Europe. But he gives end, or in what colours the carto-months, and is not yet in com- of Finance; Baron Kondo, Pre-politics as well as pictures, and grapher of a few years hence will sident of the Nippon Yasen we make some extracts from his paint his map, is the profoundest

of political secreta. Kaisha; and a large number of conclusions.

The Eastern Question," he It is a secret which is, even personal friends and acquain- tances. Baron Kato, with his writes, "most briefly defined, is now, on the point of disclosure. family, proceeded in an automo- the struggle of civilised Europe bile to his residence. "Japan for the heritage of the Turk. Be Gazette."

welcome the Baron were Mr. H.M. the sources

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Royal Tomb Opened and

Plundered.

the

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mission), are designed for nothing heavier than the standard 12 inch gun, whilst in contrast British Dreadnoughts launched. years ago or more have been designed to take the 13:5-inch gun, and ships of this armament are already in commission.

the

tween the Danube and the Dar- danelles, the Adriatic and the!

Heavler Guns for British Ships, Black Sea, is the most fertile

The same authority promises Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was still heavier guns for the British The mausoleum at Gross plains of Europe, the most luxu wardein, containing the remains riant orops and hottest human foreman of the jury which, at of Count Imdwig Rhedey and his blood.. Centuries , ago, the Crowborough on December 27 super Dreadnoughts of

27,600-ton class now under con wife, the ancestors of Queen Moslem horde came over from returned a verdict that Captain traction, and the later French Mary and the Duke of Teck, was Asia, fought the Christian armies Gordon Campbell Blair, aged 29, battleships are designed to carry forced open and plundered by one by one, pushed them ever late of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, unknown perpetrators last month, before it, and was only stopped had died from natural causes, guns of the 13.5 calibre. On the The robbers, apparently be at last when the very heart of A brother of deceased said his other hand, with characteristic

Avanture:nça m'ap mo ng show main lieving the legend that family Europe seemed within the grasp late brother had anevad in taciturnity the German officials ament of the battleships of which jewels of great value and the of the Crescent-bearing warriors," Somaliland and Barmah. Ia English ducal coronet were buried Slowly the tide has returned as it September, when home in the tomb, removed the marble came. Intrepid Hungary, who leave, he was worried by a love the keels were the last to be laid. alab, damaging the beautifully stopped its flow, firat turned it affair, and while staying at the Not even their tonnage is given, dent of the "Standard") one may worked metal ornaments. They back. Servia revolted and be: Junior Naval and Military Club but (says the Berlin correspon- wrenched the coffins open and came froo, Greece shook off the in October he cried throughout accept it as unlikely that the guns scattered the bones and akulla on turbaned destroyers of her peo- one night and in the morning will be more than ons stage the flour, but it is not known ple and her monuments. A jumped from his bed and ran heavier than the 12-inch gan, the whether they found any valuables. lew Bulgarian peasants rais through Piccadilly in his pris heaviest yet in use. The 18-inch "A cigarette stump is the only clue ed

flag of freedom mas. On Christmas Day, while

pride to overflow is not, as a mat left behind. The mausoleum and, aided by Russia, Bulgaria at Crowborough, he became so gun that has caused some little was erected by Count Ludwig became free, and the treaty of excited sad violent that it waser of fact, the heaviest gan that Rhedey in memory of his wife, Berlin made all this freedom found necesary to tie his hands to who died in 1808. He himself permanent.

the bed with towels. The follow is made. The American Bethle died in 1831..

Again we read that "Bulgaria ing morning he died, and medical hem Steel Company catalogue án 18-inch gun. This giant has a pro Heat Without Air, aspires to play the leading role evidence showed that death was fectile weighing nearlyaton. This, The atmosphere of offices, in the Balkans.

Prince due to exhaustion following cere.

however, is surpassed by gun theatres, musichalls, cinomato Ferdinand aspires, with the help bral excitment.

of lesser calibre, the Schneider graph palaces, and other places of his first-rate army, to become

Creusot 40-centimetre gun, which that are heated by hot air and an Eastern potentate, and rule German Navy's 16-Inch dun.

A great deal has been made in is of slightly smaller bore than radiators without flaen was con- from the Danube to the Aegean demned by Dr. Leonard Hill, pro- Sea." To-day the Bulgarian army chauvinist oiroles in Berlin re the Krupp and considerably fessor of physiology at London is one of the best in Europe, and cently of the report that a new smaller than the Bethlehem gun. The projectile of thin gan fleet that will easily eclipse those weighs 990 kilogrammes, or prac Hospital, in an interview last Balgaria'e aspirations are as they gun is to be used by the German month. "What is required," said were in 1896, "Servis.ed the professor, is a source of clasps hands with Montenegro and of all other nations. The gun in tically one ton, as against 920 radiant heat provided with a fine Greece, and demande the recogri- question is a 16 inch gun, with kilogrammes of the Krupp and so arranged as to draw cool, tion of the greater Old Servis projectile weighing not far short 841 kilogrammes of the American; fresh air into the room. This air Greece will have Crete and the of one ton. It is extremely im- The heaviest projectile fired by ought to be kept in gentle northern lands which are hera by probable, however, that such a say gun on any ship in commis gun will be mounted on any sion is the 567 kilogramme pro- motion. A room heated uniform-right,"

German battleship for some time jectile of the British 13.5 guns.

ly, with the air almost motion- To travel in these lande, then, lesa, is injurious because the air is to feel the germ of trouble in yet, although the existence of the

aate monotonously on the nerve your own mind, to lay ear to the weapon seems to be established,

system, and is entirely contrary ground, Indian fashion, is to hear and particulars as to its construe For Best Moals just try the to the conditions which exist oat the rumble of the tread of armies; $ion are given in the latest German ALEXANDRA CAFE 00.

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More than any other country of

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Balkans; and that still holds true. Montenegro, again, is the one country in the Balkans which

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