Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The French customs receipts for the first three months of 1896 show increases over 1595 of imports,to the amount of 145,000,000 francs and exports 49,000,000 francs. An imperial irade has been issued commanding all Turkish students now abroad to return to Turkey. The object of this order is to prevent these students from joining the young Turk movement. Advices received at Buluwayo, Matabeleland, from Gwelo say that a terrible explosion of dynamite occurred at the Eagle Reef store, near that place, and that 200 Matabeles were killed. Further advices received at Massowah show that the dervishes’ retreat after the recent fighting was in the nature of a complete rout. Col. Stevani burned the intrenchment works of Tucruf and Gulusit. The retreating dervishes inflicted considerable loss on the Shoans. The Hamburg Boersenhalle has a dispatch from Caracas, Venezuela, saying* that a settlement of the railway claims made by Germany on behalf of German subjects has been signed by the representatives of the Disconto Gesselslmft, North German Bank and the Government of Venezuela, the latter agreeing to pay 36,000,000 bolivars in settlement of past liabilities, future claims and the guaranteed interest due. * A dispatch to the Paris Matin from VfMCS aay« that Emperor William afid King Humbert, at their conference Saturday, decided to prolong the Dreibund until 1902, the present agreement including an offensive as well as a defensive clause. The correspondent of the Matin also aays that the African situation was disenssed. It was tesolved to proceed, with the peace negotiations, and. in event

of their failure, a fresh expedition, com* manded by the Duke of Aosta, brother of King -Humbert, is to be ’dispatched against the Abyssinians in September. A despatch from Madrid to the Pall Mall Gazette says: “Senor Canovas del Castillo (the Spanish premier! is 41 and cannot be Interviewed. liis relatives, however, coafirmthe -esiste&ee^ef'-a^g'np“ munique from President Cleveland. But, in the present state of public feeling, it will be Impossible for the Government to accept his offer. Matters are very comand, while the Government will do everything in i(s power to avoid a quarrel with the United States, it will prefer to fight rather than lose Cuba through foreign pressure. The coming Cortes will grant Cuba every reasonable franchise to be enjoyed under the Spanish flag." The thorough ventilation which the action of the Sultan toward the missionaries in Asia Minor has received has had decidedly beneficial effect. The United Strftes charge d’affaires, John W. Riddle, has received a written assurance from the Turkish' Government that Rev.' Georgo P. Knapp, the American missionary recehtly expelled from Bitlis, will be delivered to the United States consul at Alexandria. It is further stated that the Sultan’s irade providing fbr the ‘expulsion of other missionaries from Asia Minor has been repealed, and, for the present at least, the missionaries need not anticipate any further trouble. It is understood that in both of these cases the Sultan has acted upon the advice of the Russian ambassador.