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doubts as any other doctrine.” Despite desire to "kick somebody." Ignoring none much Russian intrigue, we doubt if Persia of the impolite comments made upon our mafficking," it must (Daily Press, 13th August.)
has been indoctrinated with either Russo- people's lapses into So that amazing Russian plan for the philia or Anglophobia. As for Afghanist in, still be admitted that we went through invasion of India, about which we were told during those two years of striving in that a very trying time, necessitating great two or three weeks ago, turns out to be buffer state, it is not to be supposed that self-control, and that we managed to at academic trifle of General KUROPAT- we should do no more than watch it. The behave fairly well under all the circum- stances. We have been paying the price, KIN's. At the time, when we first heard Daily Express itself came out the very next of the great “scoop" of the Daily Express, į day with an amusing beading “Checkinate," | and as any form of bysteries after n crisis KITCHENER'S is not to be thought of, the safety valve of inost of us in Hongkong managed to con- purporting a reference to clude that somebody had discovered a mare's plans to stop Russia." The only counter the British public is found in this way of Detailed plans for an actual inva-plau mentioned is a suggestion that now showing at the polling booth that it has felt Add to that whimsical but very sion, accompanied by map, do not usually India's loyalty is assured, Lord KITCHENER | hurt. find their way into the pages of a ha'penny, may mass all the Indian army of 222,000 natural explanation the shock of Mr. CĦAM-
It is or even a threepenny, newspaper.
men on the north-west frontier, presumably BERLAIN'S revolutionary proposals, the natural, of course, that our London contem-
to checkmate a move that General SiR scandalous laxity of the Government's sup porary should point out the impressive HENRY GREEN describes as unworthy of porters, the unfortunate tinkering with circumstance that this "is probably the serious consideration. Still, this journalistic educational legislation, and the ast mishing
yellow perit first time in history that a newspaper is coup seems to have caused a sensation at epidemic of commercial
fever that seems to have outbroken at able to lay before its readers a copy of one Home, so we may consider it to the exteut "of these secret State documents.' As to of remarking that there is no immediate oc- Home, and very little amazement is possible the essential secrecy of this wonderful docu- | casion for alarm: Russia being elsewhere at the results now regarded by many as ment, perhaps the less said the better. engaged just now. When KUROPATKIN forecasting the trend of the next General Novelists like Mr. Louis TRACY have pre- gets through his present contract, he is un- Election. The lol of the electors, the one strong man deservedly looked up to, has sented gratis to our Continental neighbours likely to trouble about another for some
shared the fate of the Court favourite, the elaborate plans for the invasion of England, time.
jester who goes too far at last, and forfeits but nobody worried much, except a few
all that he had gained. Mr. CHAMBERLAIN, copy-seekers in our own glorious profession.
according to Sir WEMYSS REID, anticipates a Liberal Ministry with a limited reign of not more than two years. Mr. BALFOUR, to› does not seem to have retained the confid- ence of his followers, as was evident when he had to threaten that the Government might "ask relief from responsibilities "which they are not sustaining for their 星着 own comfort or satisfaction." After all is said, when the Dissolution comes, the next general election is likely to be fought on the one issue of Party pure and simple. Looking back over the general elections of the last thirty years, it is to be observed that, except on two explainable occasions, shown the natural the results have phenomenon of action and re-action, the phenomenon of the pendulum in politics. It was the turn of the Liberals four years ago, and the special circumstances that called for a Conservative Ministry theu d not present themselves so forcibly now, so it is nothing to be wondered at if the change- loving electorate give them au innings this time. It is a gratifying reflection that it does not matter much that old England
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The chagrin experienced at St. Petersburg in consequence of the Express exposure is. not likely to dwarf in importance the
(Daily Press, 15th August.) smallest Japanese success. General KURO-
REUTER informs us, iu a neighbouring PATKIN'S scheme, briefly explained, is to column, that still another bye-election has march 115,000 men into India in two sec-
fallen to the Radicals. In consequence of tions, oue advancing via Merv to Kandahar; the sad death (by a motor accident) of Sir the other via Samarkand to Kabul. The W. H. RATTIGAN, a vacancy occurred in the capture of Herat and the reconcilement of electoral division of North East Lanark- Afghanistan to the new regime is to take shire, and Mr. FINDLAY was put up by the two years. That accomplished, Kandahar Liberals to oppose the Unionist candidate, would be marched upon, and India over- | Mr. Touch. The Labour party also ran a run by way of the Bolan and Khyber man, Mr. ROBERTSON, who secured 3,984
Such supplies
votes out of a ballot of 14,280. The Liberal be carried by the Trans-Caspian Rail- majority was 942, a gain of over two thou- way would be shipped at some Caspian sand votes, if allowance be made for the in-
and caravanned
In the bye. ports
across Persin. crease in the Labour vote. General KUROPATKIN estimates that election in September 1901, Mr. SMILLIE, by the outbreak of war British in the Labour candidate, received only 2,900 "fluence in the Persian Gulf will have votes. Sir WM. HY. RATTIGAN, Couser- "become so small that Russia need fear vative, was at that time returned with 5,673 no movement of the British from the Gulf suffrages, or a 904 majority over the Liberal "side." The necessary casus belli would be candidate, Mr. CECIL HARMSWORTH. Great invented some fine November mouth, and capital is, by the Opposition, being made would take the form of an imaginary attack of these bye-elections, as is but natural. by Afghans upon Russian outposts. By This one, coming on top of Market Har the time the Eagles dy at Kandahar and; horough, Devonport, and their numerous Kabul, we are to have lost all influence forerunners, must make them more cocka with the natives of India, and to be hoop than ever, and greedier for the expec- faced with another Mutiny, instigated and 'ted Dissolution. At Market Harborough supported by Russia. This ingenious pro- in the Midlands, it may be remembered, in Mr. STANHOPE raised the Liberal majority grau.me is set out at great length. General KUROPATEIN's own language," by 410; and at Devonport in the West and commented on with the customary Country Mr. J. W. BENN, the Chairman of editorial undertone of complacency, the the London County Council, effaced a JACK HORNER air of "what a smart boy Unionist majority of twenty-eight, and am I." It must have cost our enterprising established a Liberal one of 1,041. The contemporary some effort to concede that result of the last thirty or forty bye-elec- "the report should be taken in no alarmist tions must have shown nearly a fifty per spirit." For our part, we could not have cent, increase in the Liberal vote. It is, foreseen any alarm from such flimsy ma- we confess, a matter of surprise to us out terial. The astute Russian's plan is too here how important a factor the Chinese much like that of LAFONTAINE's milkmaid, labour ordinance has proved in these cou- too much like the daydream of ALNASCHAR tests. Devonport was fought on that one in the Arabian Nights. It depends so much plank alone, almost: while in this last elec- upon circumstances being fortuitous, as ex- tion we expect to hear that it figured much plained in the story of the old soldier
more conspicuously in the mural pleadings ECHEPHRON, told to the advisers of the than did the dead or dying movement to- Rabelaisian KING PICROCHOLE, who was ward fiscal reform. Without for a moment" of God is heard in the legalised demand itself, and by means of human law and situated very much as is the TSAR in this attaching so much significance to these bye- invasion now supposed to be contemplated. elections as the Opposition do, we are hound" institutions." That that is a phraseological For it is admitted that the success of to see in them symptoms of a serious wane boomerang, we demonstrate by citing such human laws the anti-Christian edicts KUROPATKIN's plan depends largely upon of the popularity that sent the present the attitude of the Persian SHAH and the Government into office four years ago. This of the Emperor NERO in Rome. Were the
The early Christian martyrs entirely wrong Afghanistan AMEER,
Recent diplomatic is to be attributed to various causes. events in Persia have shown that more than teuseness of the national nerves, during the and their passive resistauce contrary to both one may play the game of influence; and last war, was inevitably followed by a reac law and ethics? Or the Scottish Covenanters, that, as BYEON says, "the doctrine of the tionary nausea, a feeling which, in the in- or the English Protestants, or the French
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“PASSIVE RESISTERS."
(Daily Press. 15th August.) The "Passive Resisters " nt Home do not receive our sympathy, because we consider that under a representative government it is the duty of the losing side to bow to the majority when its decision becomes law. It is impossible to regard as fortunate, how- over, the efforts of a Yeovil clergyman to emphasise this argument in the International Journal of Ethics. Strong in his convictious, of course, that the "pasive resisters
entirely wrong," the reverend but rash gentleman replies to their plea, that it is more moral to obey God than Man, in this "The command boomerang-like utterance:
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