People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The czar is said to have teld Prince Von Radolin that he entirely concurred in the views and aims of Emperor William, who was taking the lead against England’s arrogance, and added that the German emperor could firmly rely on his support and the support of the states friendly to Russia —namely, France and the United States. Spain, It Is said, made a proposition to Great Britain to buy the island of Cuba. Lord Salisbury, it Is Intimated, acocrdlng to Cuban authority, sounded the United States on the subject, and the reply was President Cleveland’s vigorous enunciation of the Monroe doctrine. General Baratiori, In command of Italian forces in Abyssinia, telegraphs to the government that the Italians have repulsed several fresh attacks by the Shoans on Makeleh, the losses being slight. Gen. Gomez has re-entered Havana Province from Plnar del Rio. He encountered a Spanish force under Suarez Valdez Sunday three miles from Batabano, and a desperate fight followed. It is believed in London that there is some truth in the rumors that Great Britain has purchased Delagoa Bay from Portugal. A decree has been gazetted at Paris prohibiting the export from France or the French colonies of warlike munitions intended for the island of Cuba. Twenty-two members of the Reform committee, including Col. Rhodes, brother of Cecil Rhodes, Sir Drummond Dunbar, Mr. Lionel Phillips, and Dr. Sauer, were arrested at Johannesburg on the charge of high treason and conveyed under escort to Pretoria. It is semi-officially stated at London that no such movement of British forces toward the boundary in the disputed 1 territory in Venezuela, as indicated in the dispatches from Caracas, via New York, has Men contemplated by Great Britain, and that no addition has been made to the small force of police which has been stationed for some time past in the Uruan district.