Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

It is officially announced at Paris that Greece, yielding to the advice of France to refrain from.war, will at once disarm. The statement; is confirmed by London advices. The Greek Chamber of Deputies has been convoked. The combined fleet of the Powers which had assembled to coerce Greece has departed. Emperor William has sent the Pope a costly gold cross, mounted with jewels, as la souvenir of German gratitude for the friendly offices rendered by his Holiness in arbitrating the dispute between Germany and Spain over the Caroline Islands. ■ i Tax Treasury Department has decided

that Chinese seamen do not fall within the prohibitory provisions of ihe restriction act, and therefore may be allowed to land temporarily in the ordinary pursuit of their calling, for the purpose of shinping on a return voyage as soon us possible. The Porte has thanked the powers for their efforts to cause Greece, to disarm. Prompt and unconditional disarming alone, says the note, could induce -the Porte to dispense with a demand for.compensation for the sacrifices Turkey has been compelled to make in the maintenance of a war footing to* meet the threatened attack of Greece. ,