Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1902 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

King Edward has abandoned the proposed visit to the Riviera and Paris. Irish Nationalists blame the ministry for his decision not to visit Ireland. Ten thousand persons took part in students’ riots in St. Petersburg, which kept army of police and cavalry busy and caused injury to many of the participants. A meeting of the employers of the striking dock laborers and delegates from the strikers at La Rochelle, France, resulted in the acceptance of the demands of th# latter. The strikers number 800 men. The following dispatch, dated at Pretoria, has been received from Lord Kitchener: "Gen. Methuen was brought to Klerksdorp Thursday. He is doing well. Everything possible is being done for him.” Lord Methuen's account of the recent disaster to his troops shows that the rout was a panic, and that the Boers, who wore khaki, could not be distinguished from the British in the fighting at close quarters. Portuguese government troops recentlyattacked twelve strongholds of the slave traders, near Pemba Bay, Portuguese East Africa, and after a prolonged and desperate fight drove out the traders and liberated 700 slaves. A dispatch from Constantinople announces that the town of Kiankary, northeast of Angora, in Asia Minor, was destroyed by an earthquake. No details of the disaster had been received. Kiankary had 20,000 inhabitants. With reference to the Russo-Japanese war rumors the St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Times says he is able to vouch that the Siberian Railway is declining consignments from merchants because the resources of the line are fully occupied in forwarding troops and war material tc Vladivostock. Capt. F. 11. Smith, a well-known Englishman who arrived recently from Japan, declares that war between that country and Russia is soon to come. “Russian occupation of Manchuria is the cause of the trouble,” said Capt. Smith, “and the Japanese are spoiling for a chance to whip some one. They nre making all preparations for the fight that must come soon.”