The herald., 1898-10-30

foreign riots at Canton, the situation has
caused great uneaslness among the foreign
! ers. who number about 100. In response 10
1.-THE demand OF the diplomats, the tsuns IL
yamen has promised to remove the solulers,
who are mostly Mohammedans. and VINO
openly declare their intention OF driving OUT
the foreign devils. But the 1uiliiiiheht ol
! the promise OF the tsung Ii yamen offers con
siderable difficulty as the only force capable
of overawng the Chinese troops at Pelln Is
the toreign-drllled force Ill the nelghbornood
! of lien Ism. commanded by General \ uan
Shek Han, who, however, Is dreaded by t4e
palace, and may be regarded as piactlcaIly
holding the destlnles OF CHINA IL MS hahu
! The dOWager empress ot' China seems to
thoroughly recognize the Importance OF nav
ing modern organized army and navy, and
| is said to have informed the tsung II yalnell.
that urgent reforms are needed. and that
progressive measures in other departments
are impracticable until the government Is
backed up by powerful army and navy
The convention providing Tor the lease OF
Wei Hal Wei to Great Britain is published
today 1t provides that hinese troops and
'warships may use the leased territory. Some
of the British newspapers imagine this I'M
plies an arrangement 10y which Great Britain
will recognize the Chinese military forces.
1t is announced from st. Petersburg that
all lne powers nave NOW dtttpltti tHS tAoi !.
Invitation to send delegates to the proposed
disarmament conference. Each power WI
be represented by three delegates. and 1t
Twill be a record diplomatic assembly IN
lpont of numbers. Count Muravieti. Rus
sian minister of foreign affairs, is going to
Livadia. where he will confer with the ear
lon the outlines OF the program which will
he submitted to the delegates OF the powers.
The Russian minister is very optimistic as
| n tba rpsult of he conference
THE RACING SEASON
! The racing at Newmarket was again the
occasion for big society gatherings. There
was record attendance at the Cambridge
shire where lot OF money was dropped on
left at the post with Tod Sloan in the saddle.
The racing fever OF the last few weeks called
forth protests from various quarters. Mr..
Henry Labouchere, in Truth, referring to
Tob Sloan, denounces ''the nauseuus jockey
worship which was such discredltable and
idiotic feature of the turf twenty years ago.
Lord Russell of killowen, the Lord Chief
Justice of England, IL speech, has also de-
cried this mania, saying:
They worship this god to such an eX-
tent that if Tod Sloan, supposine his nation
| ality did not stand in the way, were to be
come a candidate for Epson, il is doubtful
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KINGS AND PRINCES
! According to advces received from the
| court OF Copenhagen, where King George OF
! Greece is staying, after attending the tune
| fal OF the Queen OF Denmark, it is believed
| there that he will abdicate next spring in
| favor of the Crown Prince Constantine
| Duke OF Sparta, and will return to Denmark
and settle there permanently.
The blrt IA n a son q Prince I,ma n ed DIN l<p
Of Aosta, oldest nephew OF the King OF
| Italy, was very important event Tor the
| house OF Savoy, as, unless a change OF cir
cumstances occurs, he WI sit on the throne
OF Italy.
| 1t has been asserted that the Crown
| Prince Nittoria Emanuel, Prince OF Ma
| pies, who was married October 2f, 1896, tC
! Princess Helena of Montenegro, may never
have issue, and. as thfr5' tEeand Duchess OF
without having children, the enemies of the
| house of Savoy, especially the clericals, dill
gently spread the idea that the absence OF
a direct heir after the Prince of Naples was
| the result OF the curse of God for the u>urp
alton OF the Papal States. Anxiety was be
| ginning to be felt in the royal family of Italy
and the Count of Turin, the second nephew
| OF the King, was given to understand tina,
he would have to marry. The project, how
ever, has been stitied by the birth OF a sor
to the Duke and Duchess of Aosta.
PApAL FINANCES
| An interesting announcement in connec
| tion with Papal finance has been made by
Well-iniormed newspapers of Rome, which
says that the Vatican has decided to invest
the Peters Pence fund in large sugar man
uiactory, and, it is added there are some
ml-elVlngs IN Catholic circles as to the wis
of As,tT, l,,.
, speculative undertaking, seeing that the last
venture resulted in the loss Of several million
lire.
MILITARY MATTERS
General Lord Kitchener has been over
whelmed with social invitations since hi'
return to England, but he Is disposed to take
a rest. lie hls been asked by two Engli.I
publishing firms to write book and an
American agent has been trying to get hin
to consent to lecturing tour in the Unitec
States. l}ut the commander OF the Anglo
Egyptian forces has declined all these prop
ositlous.
The statement that General Kitchene
served in the French army during the wa
OF 1901 was confirmed this week bv an
| interview with his stepmother at Dinan
She said he had Just received his commits
sion in the British army and went to Frame
on a holiday visit to his father, who ha,
settled at oman. Young Kitchener. IN spit
of the opposition of his father, who fcare,
he would lose hi93 British commission, ioine,
the Dinan Mobiles and set out against th
Germans. At Laval he assembled in ballooI
to rcconnoltre the cnemy's position an,
caught a severe attack OF plc,risy. whc
compelled him to return to Dinan and c,,
short his career in the French army.
Lady Henry Somerset, who is living ouie,
Ily at East Newcastle, is occupied in model
.tn of tj,a Intg No.. "a
lard.
The talk of military circles, next to di.
cussing the prospects of war with France
has been an extraordinary affair at the FL VT b