Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1908 — FROM FOREIGN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGN

A severe earthquake razed bouses on the island of Hayti. Canada was officially assured that Japanese immigration would be restricted. Japan and Canada came to a final agreement on the immigration question. Mounted police had serious work to quell socialist riots in the streets of Berlin. The peace terms submitted by the Shah of. Persia were accepted, aud peace again reigns in Teheran. M. Bleriot, the noted aeronaut, fell from his machine, in Paris, aud barely escaped with his life. The Russiun War Department ordered the formation of a war automobile corps, based on tbe German idea. Henry Farnam, French aeronaut, won ft SIO,OOO prize for piloting an aeroplune successfully four-fifths of a mile. Berlin was brought face to face with the problem of feeding 12,000 starving school children during the winter. European students of affnirs declared the only hope for Portugal’s salvation was*YHe establishing of a republic. A sensation waa caused in the German court scandal by tbe revelation that a sister of the Kaiser supplied the information upon which the accused Harden based his editorial attacks. Prince Bernard of Snxewelmnr. who renounced bis rank to wed the widowed Countess Luccheslnl. died In Berlin. Russia was reported to be considering tbe construction «f fire squadrons of battleships at an estimated cost of $2,000,000,000. Japanese authorities professed great concern over reports from the United States indicating the adoption of a strict exclusion measure. Thq pretender wss proclaimed Saltan <tf Morocco, under condition thnt he would oxpol tbs French troops and reject the AUrercilas convaoHon.