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GENERAL NEWS.

On Furlough.

Mr. A. Vozcecienski, the Rus sian Vior-Consul at Shanghai, ban left for Home on furlough, and, will probably be away for four months.

"Mining Disaster in Spain. Barcelona, Miron 5.-A violent explosion occurred yesterday in a coal mine in, Cordoba, pausing 30 deaths, 10 of whom were killed oat right.

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Fatal Gas Explɔsion in Virginia.

Layland, March 2.-Some 171 miners have "bean' entombed by an explosion of gas, which was followed by a fire. Only two men. have been rescued up to the pre -soat and they were badly hurt.

The Ruhlebea Burns Club. A new Barns 'olub hus coine. into being. I is the Rulleben -Burns Club, and the members of it are Sentiish civilians detained in the Ruhleben conccalration camp, near Berlin. A postcard announcing the formation, or, rather, the inaguration," of the club has been received by the president of the Ayr Burns Úlub.

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If the Administration Doualae Haig, "and amounts to diplomatic machinery must not be 1,529, of whom 43 have died of made the agencies for so absurd wise it will give short shrift to the wounds or disease; 38 are wound-a rrraedeat as. would be orented demand of the German Govern, ed; and missing; 3 missing; and by arsfusal to bonour the Canadian ment through its Ambassador at the first floor of No. 3 Duddell

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The raising of a fond by cer-ed right of American exporters lo two years ago issued membership medals to Misses Neilson, Alms, ain pro-Germans in New York deal with belligerentseven though Ervine, Johnson, Riordan and for the defence of the dynamiter the goods ho contraband; and the Mary Jenkins for voluntary ser- is one of the most flagrant of the fact that Germany cannot buy vices in connection withite medical many violations of the spirit of aach gcode because she has not relief work at Wucheng and Han-American neutrality. If the Ger. the control of the sea bas po kow during the revolution in 1811 man sympathisers in this country bearing whatever upon the under the direction of Dr. Steford really wanted to demonstrate to general principle.

Nor, even if the United States! M. Cox. The medals, together their fellow countrymen the with those from Vice-President Libreadth and loftiness of their should hold that the British Yuan-hang, have remained with patriotiem they have missed declaration of the Biety's Central Committee their greatest opportunity. They band nature of foodstuffs destined at Shanghai as the Society has acabould have united in the de- for Germany is unsound in for "been unable to trace the mand for the surrender to international law and protest addrerses of the ladies. It is Canada of a zealot who under the against it, should the matter of hoped that the ladies concerned pretence of farthering the Ger- the shipment of arms be brought or their friends will kindly inform was causa not only violated the into the issue. A belligerent is conditional the Central Committee of the neutrality of the country which justified in placing provisions in

ostegory of ad ire gas to which the medala can had given him sanctuary, but the

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ageist the safety of thousands of they are being used for mili The Boy Scouts' Help.. innocent non-combatant railwaytary purposes. In the present ose the United States cannot Capt. Price toentions that in passengers. London alone 22,000 Boy Scoute But to pretend that such acntrovert the principle, however were mobilized for the war, and crime is "political" and to strive it may dispute the application of employed on there duties: Hand- to protect the criminal from the it. To be told by another ing out notices to inhabitants, punishment that is his due is a Government that it must do so, and other duties convected with deliberate invitation to other or else withdraw a right from its billeting, commandearing, ware-partisans to begin a guerilla war citizens they are fully entitled to ing, &c. Carrying cut o amuni- fare and to use the soil of the Ua cojos, is intolerable. If Germany, cation by means of despatch ited States as a basis of operatione. fighting for her life, can take such on ineplent attitude as this, riders, signallers, wireless,, do.

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what might not be expected of Quarding and patrolling bridges,

Germany violoricus ? Whatever the final outcome of oulverts, telegraph lines, &o., against damage by individual the struggle in the Senate over ppies. Collecting information as the ship purchase bill may be, it to supplies, transpert, &o. availa is no exaggeration to describe it ble. Carrying out organised relief as a dead measure. To carry it

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