Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1906 — FROM FOREIGN LANDS [ARTICLE]

FROM FOREIGN LANDS

i' The finance department of the Japanese' ’government finds that the total cost of the war with Russia was 1,170,000,000 yen, of which was for the army and IWJXXLOOo for the navy. Field Marshal Lojd Roberts, in view of the Liberal triumph, has renewed his, campaign of warning to the British public concerning the inadequate defenses. He .urges the adoption of 1,000.000 men ns a military standard, one-half for the defense of India and the other half to maintain British prestige in Europe. The Venezuelan .charge d’affaires to Paris, now at London, has been authorized by President (bistro to answer the note of Premier Bouvier and to say that he holds the French government responsible for the assistance of its employes in the cable company given to revolutionists. He is willing to submit this point to arbitration. The semi-offii ial returns of. the British elections ..indicate the new status of patties in the House of Commons as follows: Liberals, 378; Unionists, 154; Nationalists, 84, and Laborites, 45. Out of the total 100 are lawyers, 70 are manufacturers; merchants, 60; ex-army officers, 45; solicitors, 34; journalists, 29; ship owners, 20; authors, 19; mine owners, 10; doctors, 10, and brewers, 10. Nearly all of the Laborites were wage earners. Bev. S. I’. Little. who has just returned from the Episcopal mission at Hankow, China, says that the revolutionary party, agitated by young men who have been nt the university of Japan, is seeking to drive China into a conflict with the powers in the hope of establishing a republican form of government. Their motto is "China sot the Chinese.” Dr. Little thinks that the Japanese ar.e as much alarmed over the situation as nre"The Americans. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the trow Libera rpremior, won ’his first victory in the commons Wednesday,- when the opposition amendment against the home rule policy for Ireland.„was_rejected_bj. the tremendous majority of 406 to 88. _ In answering the opposition. James Bryce, chief secretary for Ireland, said that home rule had no terrors for him, and that he had not departed from the principles of Gladstone. Self-government for Ireland was the mandate of the people. A provisional commercial agreement with the United States was approved by the Reichstag Thursday, by a large majority. Chancellor von Buelow said that the United States has no claim to the most favored’ treatment, - but that" Germany granted it in order to gain time for permanent treaty negotiations, and because it was desirable to avoid a tariff war. Thus America gets the same privileges that after March 1 go-into effect under the new German tariff law for Italy. Belgium, Roumania, Servia, Switzerland,- Austria-Hungary and Russia. The French proposition made through private channels direct to Berlin that the officers for policing Morocco should be French nad Spanish was definitely rejected by order of the German emperor, whose representatives said it was contrary to the principles of internationalization and equality of the powers in Morocco. At Paris it was stated that the French government would go no further, and all private negotiations were called off. The impression prevailed in European capials, however, that war would not be the outcome in any event unless the Kaiser willed it. Unofficial information from Pekin and other Chinese cities received by the State Department at Washington indicate that the present agitation is likely to be more formidable than the Boxer uprising of 1900. The attitude of the Chinese government is something of a mystery, although it has kept within the letter of its obligations. The viceroy of Foochow has been ordered to execute the leader of the Uhangpu mob, and to punish severely the others concerned at that point. The British government has demanded full compensation for the property of the Presbyterian mission so destroyed. President Roosevelt is said to be in favor of Sending another regiment to the Philippines. and the War Department is actively engaged in rushing supplies to Manila to be used in the event of a Chinese campaign. The program of constitutional reform for Russia has reached its final stage of discussion by the cabinet. It places legislative power in the hands of the douma,. the council of the empire and the emperor, all of which must give assent to make any law valid. The emperor may dissolve the douma at any time, but elections must be held within four months. The word “unlimited” is tb be left out of the clause defining the ‘emperor's power. Gradually the government appears to be getting control of affairs in the Baltic provinces, but unofficial reports say that a fresh revolt begins as soon as a body of soldiers leaves any one point. There appears to have been a respmption of the mutiny the Russian troops at Vladivostok. All engines and cars on tbe railroad had been seized, and many stations plundered. The native population is known to tie on the verge of starvation from repeated maraudings of the soldiery, and a general uprising is feared.