Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1904 — FOREIGN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOREIGN

Ashes from Vesuvius fell over southern Italy. A Greek minister has been appointed at Mexico City. A massacre by Kurds is reported at Ramsa, Armenia. Russia claims to have traced the Von Plehve plot to Geneva. Emperor William’s suite say he is not suffering from his throat. Mount Vesuvius is more calm and people are allowed to ascend. Alderman John Pound has been elected Lord Mayor of London. An uprising in China against foreigners is threatened in October. The Irish Reform Association Suggests a council to consider Irish finances. The British steamer Loyalist was wrecked off Cape Race. The crew was saved. Russian newspapers -say that there will not be room for Russia, England and Japan in Asia. European countries consider the present inopportune for a meeting of The Hague conference. Russia notified China through M. Lessar that she protested against the AngloThibetan treaty. China therefore said she was unwilling to lose suzerainty over Thibet. The Chinese apologized and offered full reparation for the attack upon Captain Laribe at the French legation In Pekin. Russian papers are greatly disturbed over the Buddhist pilgrimage to Thibet, where Great Britain has just achieved a diplomatic triumph in a treaty which is virtually a protectorate. When King Edward met the Emperor Francis Joseph at Marienbad recently, be wore the uniform of an Austro-Hun-garian field marshal, which includes green plumes on the headpiece, a turquoise blue tunic and crimson trousers.