Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1897 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Greece is facing a cabinet crisis. Marshal Blanco has ordered the release of four more alleged Cuban agents in prison at Havana. Five thousand Albanians in the district of Ipek and Diakova arc in open revoll against the Turkish Government. Spanish soldiers in Cuba are said to have received no pay for months, and in many cases are reported ill and starving. The Spanish Government has authorized Captain General Blanco to spend SIOO,000 for the relief of starving peasants in Cuba. The Conntees of -jathom, while returning from a shooting party, was thrown out of a trap and killed near Wigan, Lancaster. Valuable data is said to have been discovered at Georgetown, British Guiana, fully confirming Great Britain’s claim to territory in dispute with Venezuela. Hiram S. Maxim’s new quick-firing gun was tried at Portsmouth, England, with remarkable results. With twenty-five

pounds of cordite it showed an effective range of 16,000 yards. Col. Horomoso has planted the Paraguayan flag in Bahia Negro territory, which is in dispute with Bolivia. Two forts, armed by 200 men and two batteries, hare been erected to hold the territory. As a result of the decision of the Turkish Government to grant the demands of Austria, the flag of Austria was duly saluted at Mersina by Turkish guns, with all the ceremonial demanded by the Government of Austria. The Russian newspapers urge that Russia, France and Great Britain should occupy points in China to counterbalance th*' German occupation of Kiachou Bay, Shan-Tun Peninsula. The appointments of Admiral von Diedrich to command the combined squadrons in Chinese waters and of Prince Henry of Prussia to assume command of the second German squadron on the coast of China, consisting of the Kaiserin Augusta, the Deutschland and the Gefion, which three vessels will probably start for Kiaochou Bay about Dee. 10 next, are officially confirmed Advices recently received from a correspondent now with the insurgent* in the Camaguey district give details of the Cuban assembly recently held. This dispatch, which has been en route since Nov. 1, says the assembly convened Sept. 2, but owing to the absence of several delegates from western provinces it was continued from day to day until all the members were present. Senor Mendez Capote presided over the deliberations. Twenty-two of the twenty-four delegates presented credentials from the various districts throughout the island. After reviewing and amending the constitution and approving the acts of the retiring government, these officers were elected: President, General Bartolome Masso; vice-president, Mendez Capote; secretary of war. Brigadier Aleman; secretary of state, Fonte Sterling; secretary of foreign affairs, Moreno Delatorre; secretary of the interior. Dr. Manuel R. Silva; com-mander-in-chief of the army, Maximo Gomez; inspector general, Carlos Roloff. The dispatch states that the election of Gen. Masso was due to the personal influence of Gen. Gomez. Gen. Masso is known to have been unalterably opposed to any settlement of the Cuban question not based on absolute independence.