Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1906 — FROM FOREINGN LAND. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREINGN LAND.

R jssia has agreed that her consul general in Korea shall derive his exchequer from the Japanese government, thus acknowledging the Japanese supremacy in the hermit kingdom At Alexandria, Egypt. 100 natives were tried for the recent attack on British officers, in which Copt. Bull was killed. Four of the accused were condemned to death, two to life imprisonment and twelve to briefer terms of imprisonment. The prophecy of a social revolution without bloodshed in 1010 in France has beeu made by M. Guesde, the new lea del o i the Socialists in the Chamber of Deputies. At that time, he says, the attitude of the Socialists will be so menacing that the capitalist government will call out the army, but, as the army will refuse to fire, “the revolution will be bloodless."

The Russian admiral. Rojestvensky, addressing the court-martial at Kronsstadt, took all tho blame for the surrender of the gunboat Itedovi to the Japanese, and invited the full punishment of the law. which would be death. He did th.s in the hoj»e of saving the officers who surrendered the gunboat in order to save the life of their wounded coronander. It was said i>>. sailors of the Bedovi that Rojostvenskv's party had boarded the gunboat with the intention Of surrendering instead of trying to escape, and that their first act was tot hoist the white Hag. The French budget, which was introduced in the chamber Tuesday, shows that the military preparation during the Mojuccair cririv cost "fsTOXKMIfIO. and that internal reforms have cost $30,000,000, and that, in consequence, a loan would be necessary to meet the defioit. The British House of Commons, adopted th«' most contested clause of the education W 4» by a mffJmfrT"of''277. This danse prorides that special religious instruction may be given in any voluntary school on the vote of four-fifths of the parents of the children attending. This is the fourth clauae of the bill.