Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1907 — FROM FOREIGN LANDS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGN LANDS

The Roumanian delegate to The Hague peace conference spoke in favor of allowing the Czar to summon the next convention. Vancouver, in its efforts to have Orientals barred, circulated a petition praying the Dominion government to take drastic steps. Protests against Judge Wilfley by the Chinese were silenced by United States authorities, who upheld the Judge in his course. It was announced that the maneuvers of the British fleet, to take place in the North Sea, will be secret to all but the Japanese. The Dowager Empress of China issued a decree inaugurating political reforms in her empire, and paving the way for a constitution. r Political unrest and diasatisfaetioa among the laboring element spread through Cuba. Western Europe was swept by a severe storm; rivers in southern France leaving their customary confines and drowning many peasants. . Countess Modtignoeo's brother, who has renounced his Imperial ''privileges, an-, nounced hia intention of marrying as h enable Silesian girl. Unusual honors ware paid by the high eat officials of the Republic of Mosdco U Secretary Root, who is soaking a trij through the land od the Mooteaußias.