Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-09-17
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cess.
Referring to a Halifax dispatch re-
garding the strengthening of the Esqui-
malt garrison, the Globe says it is graf
flying that it is beginning to receive
appreciation as a s~trategical position,
which it entities zone of those imperial
coigns of vantage which have suffered
from systematic neglect" The paper
also says that a couple of years ago a
British engineer officer was
SENT TO ESQUIMALT
to investigate the place, and adding that
it was evident he saw the futility OF
Strengthening the Notifications unless
manned by thoroughly efficient troops.
The Canadian militia" says the
Globe, lis as useful as such a force is
for local purposes, but only unless they
receive sufficient training in gunnery
to be trusted with the custody of such
a valuable strategical position
Correspondents of leading London papers
start for South Africa to-day. including
Messrs. Melton Prior. Stevens, and other
well known newspaper men. Gen. Sir
George Stewart White. V. c., former
quartermaster general, whost appointment
to the Natal command was gazetted last
night, also sails to-day with his staff.
At the Manchester peace meeting last
night the Right Hon. Leonard Henry
Courtney, Liberal, formerly deputy speaker
of the House of Commons, read a letter
received from Herbert Spencer protesting
against the idea that the Natal honor
would be enhanced by attacking a weak
nation. lamenting that age and Ill health
prevent him from aiding the peace move
ment, declaring it is undeniable that the
Jameson raid was an attempt
TO USURP THE TRANSVAAL
and asserting that what the O~utlanders'
bullets failed to do then they now hope to
do by votes.
Continuing the letter. reads: 1T is sad
TO see our government backing those whose
avowed policy is expansion, which, less
politely expressed, means aggression, and
for which there is a still less polite word
which is readily guessed"
While many individual decisions to boy
colt the Paris exhibition continue to be an
nounced there is no sign of any official
action upon the part of any country. AS
the Spectator forcibly says:
THE trading classes implore the govern
ment to Withdraw from the exhibition,
which is impossible, because it implies in
reference in the internal affairs of an in
dependent state, and they also threaten to
withdraw their own exhibits, which is
futile, as their competitors will immedi-
ately accept the vacant places"
NJ. Meline, the former premier, continues
his agitation for the convocation of the
French chambers. He has not yet OBJ
tanned sufficient adhesions to effect his
object, but the support obtained seems to
point him out as likely to head the next
government.
The reason trial now proceeding in Ser
via, in which nearly thirty members of the
Radical party are accused of conspiring to
assist Knezevich to kill former King Milan,
is disclosing a terrible picture of govern
mental corruption. No tenable evidence
has yet been given against the radicals,
and, evidently the trial is a mere pretext
to destroy the radical party by imprison-
ing it's chiefs. There is no doubt that but
for the interference of Russia and Austria
several of them would have been executed.