The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-13
TIE TALK OF EUROPE.


In Foreign Lands.
Quietly and without attracting any
attention, the German artillery has now
been entirely equipped with new quick
firing guns A battery Of these new can
non can fire so shots a minute, and they
have a range of over five miles. The
new gun is provided with an appliance
to prevent the recoil. After the first
shot Il sort of spur attached to the end
of the gun carriage bores into the
ground, so that the gunners may remain
quietly standing by the piece and re-
load without the loss Of time. The i'm
perial parliament has shown itself far
more patriotic i'll the matter than one
might be tempted to believe from the
recent utterances of Emperor William,
for the $50, coo, 900 needed for the trans
formation was voted almost unanimous
ly by the reichstag, even the socialists
giving their consent thereto, and, what
is more, keeping thu whole affair secret.
Inasmuch as Germany's victory in the
war of 1870 was admittedly due princi-
pally to her artillery, the Importance of
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cite an immense amount of attention
abroad
Russia has method all it's own for
dealing with professional labor agita-
tors and walking delegates. Sixty of
them, who had assembled at Moscow
for the purpose OF organizing huge
strike, have just been arrested, all on
the same day, and exiled to Siberia "ad-
Enthusiastically that is to say, with
out trial. The majority of them are
said to have been men of university ed
ucation, who had, however, worked for
a short time as common mill hands,
with the object of winning the conf
dence of the laboring classes.
In Austria law has just been passed
making it punishable offense for par
ents to take young children into bed
with them. This arbitrary interference
with "the liberty of the subject has
been rendered necessary by the large
number Of deaths of infants through
being overlaid, the annual average huv-
ing been for some time past as much as
1000. In England, where no such law
as yet prevails, the average is'even still
larger, possibly in consequence of the
extensive insurance of one kind and
another on infant life.
There is no longer any question about
the future of the African policy of the
Italian government. Prime Minister
Rudini has expressed his determination
to diminish Italy's military occupation
of Abyssinia gradually until it extends
no farther than Massaua. With regard
to Kassala, he declares that it would be
necessary for Italy to consult England
as to its restitution to Egypt, retro
cession which is quite likely to be op-
posed by Abyssinia. Under no circum-
stances, however, will Italy hold Kas-
sala beyond the time needed for its sur.
render to the Anglo Egyptian authori-
ties.
1t is pity that no advantage is taken
by people i'll America of the opening up
of Russia, with all its undeveloped re-
sources, to foreign capital and enter
prise. Within the last II months alone
little Belgium has invested no less than
$50, 900, 600 of its money in the coal
and iron industries of the Muscovite
empire, England as we'll as France fol-
lowing rapidly in the wake of King
LeOpold's enterprising subjects. Yet
American capitalists would find far
more cordial welcome i'll Russia than
those of most European nations and
would certainly receive from the impe-
rial authorities every possible advan-
tage over the Germans and the English,
neither of whom are popular.
Public opinion i'll London, especially
in official circles, is much exercised by
a report current to the effect that EN-
peror William has just concluded ar
rangements with the king of the Bel
gians for the grant by the latter of large
and important territorial concessions i'll
the Kongo Free State to a syndicate of
German financiers and merchants. In
deed, it is asserted that the scheme pro-
vides for the formation of a German
chartered company subsidiary to the
Kongo Free State, but taking over most
of the powers and the responsibilities of
the latter. 1t remains to be seen wheth-
er the scheme does not constitute an in
fringement of the international treaty
which called into life and created the
Kongo Free State convention, under the
terms of which alone King Leopold
holds possession of the Kongo valley.
Belgium's government, which owns
all the railroads in the kingdom, has
put forward a curious defense for resist
ing the claim for damages brought by
the widow and orphan children of a
merchant of the name of Lesaffre, who
was killed i'll an accident caused by a
train running off the line near Bruges
The state argues that if the suit is based
on the transport contract constituted by
the railroad ticket, the heirs of the de-
ceased have no right to any other in
demnity than that arising from "the