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GENERAL NEWS.

Sarawak Pensioners. An order is published in the Alicial Sarawak Gazette, signed by the Rajh, in these terms "I hereby direct that officers of the Sarawak Government eervice ret red on pension shall not accept the pnition of chairman, or director of any company or a- sociation carrying on or formed to carry on within the territory of Sarawak trading, win ng or plast ing operations, or having suy other object or purpose; nor shail such officera Lecome associated in any manner with the manage- ment of or hold shares in any such companies or sacciations without having p evicus'y obtained wy permission in writi g to do ar This order shall apply to all of- ficers who have already retired as well as to those who may here- after retire ca prasion and any contravention there I will render an officer, liable to forfeiture of his pension."

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with England. However, Italy soon secured herself against any pcesible attack by France at sea by concluding in 1887 an agree ment with this curatry which justified the expectations of all guaranteed her the maintenance those who knew her position in of peace and the status quo in the

Reason Mediterranean. the Triple Alliance.

The alliance was not popular stood at the cradle of her alliance with Germany and Austria, and in Italy. It did violence to her it can to made into serviceable no sentiment has over supervened anti-Austrian sentiments, and it But did nothing to help bor in streng to warm and safen it, rope and twine, as well as coarse thread suitable for matting and calculatione come and go with theaing her position in the sailcloth, and its use in Indo-circumstances, and alliances baad Mediterranean. Itled, moreover, China is sugrested for bags for on them must also change. Nene to a violent quarrel with France rice and other grain exports in other than Bismarck himself, the and resulted in a terrible Custome creator of the Triple Alliance, rates war which inflicted, deep place of the jute bags Tow imported. On a native looma itcognised this when" he said younda on Italian commerce and "Eternal duration is assured to industry and caused fimino and produces a strong fsxible cloth

Urispi, who Apply to of about the same quality as jute, no treaty between Great Powers, riot in the land. The fibre takes dres readily and and it would be unwise to regard was openly aiming at a war with permanently Franca, was only with difficulty it as affording & bas high tenacity:

stable guarantee against all restrained by Bismarck, and the Royal Shirt-cutters. Queen Alexandra, Princess possible contingencies which in climax was reached when the Vicrorin, and Princesa Margaret the future may modify the poli- Italian Government, in order to of Danmark (who is staying at tical, material, and moral condi-divert the people's discontent, Marlborough House) are taking a tions under which it was brought rushed the country into the practical part in providing e. m-into being" forts for wounded soldiers and sailors, and spend much of their time in cutting out shirts and other garmente and making them ready for those who will do the actual sewing.

This was really the end of the Triple Allianca so far as Having Italy was concerned.

disastrous war with Abyssinia. Itsly first sought an alliance Then came the reaction. Crispi Crispi's fall, the tariff war with France with Grmany only. recently published memoirsrecord ceased, and in 1900 an agree- how the first question he put to ment, supplemented two years Bismarck was: Would Germany later by another, was concluded support Italy in case of a war with France pledging the two with France or Austria? These countrice not to steal any march British Scientists in Australia.

A section of the British Science were Italy's two rivale-France, upon one another in the Meditor- Congress, e mprising 15 member rival in the Mediterranen, ranean but to allow France to bers, visited various places of who had already been established take Morocco in return for Italy's scientific interest in the Maitland in Algeria, who was known to annexation of Tripoli. district cl New South Wales entertain ambitions in Tunis and recently. Later they went to the Tripoli, and who stood guard in Municipal Council's quarry at Corsica at the very door of Italy; Mcunt Barrie, to view peclens in and Austria, ber old enemy, who come to terms with France in the lower marine tuff, Returning still ruled over millions of "ar- Mediterranean, what more need sons of Italy in had she of Germany and Austria, to town, they travelled through redeemed " the coal fields, to Censurak, Dalmatia, Trieste, and the Sou-who invariably refused to guar- where the Aberdare Extended thern Tyrol. It was against the antes her interestsin those water,? Colliery was inspected. The two of them that Italy wanted Nevertheless the Triple Alliance party then visited Greta, Allan Germany's help. But Bismarck was renewed in the very same dale, Braxton, Lochinvar, and refused. Against France, yea; year, 1902, in which Italy had against Austria, no, Rather than obtained from Delcasse the satie- Farley.

-Jewish Loyalty,

remain isolated Crispi chose to be faction of her Mediterranean The Jewish Chronicle, in its with Germany against Franco. Io desires. current issue, daye:-"We Jene, 1882, after France had occupied whether England in to as the Tunis, the hitherto Daal Alliance loved country of our birth or the between Germany and Austria equally beloved country of our was <xtended to Italy as the third adoption, will go forward, our one inspiring motive our affection for England, our one stern resolve that come what may her cause shall prevail. If we cannot do more we cannot do less, for, we repeat, England bas been all she could be to Jews, Jews will be all they can be to. England,"

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was no longer present. It was now sheer fear of Austria which stocd sponsor to the alliance, for bad she broken away from it she would have exposed herself to an The Anglo-Italian Agreement. attack from her former allies. The terms of this extension With the conclusion of the Anglo: What is French Entente even that fear were never published. known is that Italy had been greatly diminished, and the world bound to her partners by two saw in 1906 the singular spectacle separate treaties, one with Ger- of Italy supporting at Algeciras many and the other with Austria; France against Germany, and in that these treaties were renewable 1900, at Racconigi, ostentation:ly from time to time, and that they receiving the Tear, who bad common travelled in a roundabout way to Inquiries among trol Sydney only provided for a tobacconists as to whether the defensive policy on the Continent. avoid Austrian territory, and war would affect the cost of to-The latter point is important entering with Russia into an directed against bacco and cigarettes show that because it contained the germ of agreement smokers of the Turkish weed the gradual decay of the extended Austria,

Italy's alliance with Germany will auffer most. "Turkish to-alliance. It meant the exclusion bacco," said cae cf Sydney's lead-from the operation of the treaties and Austria became a piece of ing cigarette manufactures," has of all Mediterrorean questions in waste paper. It was useful to already risen 41 a pound, and which Italy was specially Italy in so far as it gave her an will probably go up to an ex- nterested. This was no oversight. opportunity for laying her part orbitant price, owing to the mar-Bismarck, knew well that Italy nera ander tribute, It was thus ket being practically out of by was bound to have a Mediter that she was able to venture to the war. Virginian tobacco has rancan policy and to strive after attack Turkey, Germany's friend. also been on the rise during the hegemory in that basin. It in Tripoli, and to bind Austris past year or so, though another was he himself who, in 186, to withhold her hande from increase is not anticipated at bad written to Mezzini saying Albania. For that reason it was present, owing to the fact that that the mastery in the Mediter again renewed in December 1912, the sea route between America ranean must be the constant Bat apart from this Italy Lad no and Australis is being kept open. thought of Italy, the aim of the longer any need of the alliance,

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