Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1903 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Crowft Prince Frederick William, on behalf of Emperor William, took part in the dedication of the New American Chnrch at Berlin. The Dreyfuss case has been reopened by Minister of Justice, who is said to hove discovered that false evidence was given at the previous Jriai. The Boersen-Courier of Berlin asserts that the reports of the flight of Princess Alice of Schoenburg-Waldeuburg with her coachman are absolutely accurate. An emigration office in connection with the steamship iines touching at Bremen has been opened at Belgrade. Those who have taken tickets for the United States include 200 Macedonian refugees. Russia lias sent a battleship and three torpedo boat destroyers to Chemulpo to enforce a demand on Japan for redress in connection with the recent affray between Russian and Japanese sailors. It is announced at Cape Town that the Germans have formally annexed the territory of the Bondelzwarts tribesmen iu German southwest Africa. The surrender of the Bondelzwarts is expected. Advices have been received from south China by the steamer Athenian of ths loss of thousands of lives as a result of the destruction of several hundred Chinese fishing junks in a typhoon off Swatow. Russia and Japan are said to have agreed to a tentative settlement of the Manchurian question, and now have only tlie Corean matter to dispose of. Some annoyance is caused in Russia by the alleged part played by the United States. The flood which has caused so much damage in St. Petersburg was the biggest since 1824. The intense cold is causing much distress among tlie homeless and the dwellers in cellars. In the factory quarter 20,000 persons have been driven into the streets, many of them losing their all. Details of a treaty said to have been arranged between Japan and Russia are published in Paris, though Tokio is still clamoring for the negotiations to be concluded. According to the French report Japan is secured in her claims on Korea and Russia gains assurances of rights in Manchuria. Britain and France are said to hare aided in tlie settlement.