Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1901-12-13
FROM ACROSS THE WATER.
A BRIEF RESUME OF OLD WORLD NEWS

A BRIEF RESUME OF OLD WORLD NEWS
What Englands King and Queen Will Weal
at the Coronation The Chinese Viceroy
Wants Control of Tien-Tsin-The Roya
Scandal in Holland The Prince of Walei
an Orator.
The British captured three laagers
and $50 prisoners in the Transvaal Fri
day, the largest capture in many
months.
King Edward has definitely fixed
June 26 as the date of the coronation.
The festivities will include an immense
naval demonstration to which each
power will be asked to send ship fly
ing an admiral's flag.
Halju, one of the principal agents OF
the ex-president of the Macedonian
committees has been arrested at Sofia
for connection with the kidnapping of
Miss Stone. Further reports of the
death of Miss Stone and Nine Tsilka
have been circulated and denied.
The Prince of Wales made speech
at Guildhall last week that raised him
higher in the people esteem than any
previous action. He declared that the
old country must wake up if it wanted
to hold its own. and he spoke earnest
ly and simply, without the usual plat
itudes of royal utterances,
NJ Edmond Rostand has Christmas
carol in the Paris newspapers which
appeals to the children Of all countries
to give some of their Christmas gifts
to the Boer children in the concentra-
/ tion camps of South Africa The poem
SAYS: Their Father Christmas is not
an old man with kind eyes, but a spec
tire. He brings not in his transparent
hands toys and sweetmeats, but little
collins of different sizes -
/ The members of the Chamber at The
Hague, Holland, denounce the action
of the British in confscating the
/ Dutch Red Cross outfit outside of Pre-
toria and imprisoning the staff on the
island of Ceylon. They say it is con-
trary to the Geneva convention. The
government has frequently demanded
that the Netherlanders be released on
parole, but Great Britain is not
obliged to release them until after the
close of the war.
The principal object of the visit to
Pekin of Yuan Shi kai, the new vice
roy of China, who reached there last
week, is to induce the foreign powers
to relinquish their control of the gov
eminent of Tien Tsin. Yuan Shi kai
has assured all the ministers of the
foreign powers at Pekin that he is per-
sonally able and willing to maintain
order at Tien Tsin and in the prov
ince The majority of the foreign rep
rescntatives insist that the powers
should retain control of Tien-Tsin
until the establishment of the Chi
nesc court at Pekin.
August Bebel, the socialist leader
made a great sensation in the German
Reichstag last week, during the tariff
debate He declared that the bill TO
ments instruction, and said there
were Two nations in the German state
the plunderers and the plundered and
he was speaking for the latter As the
representative of $500, 600 voters, he
lodged the socialist protest against
the "hungcr duties, - as he called the
tariffs on grain and assured his oppon-
ents that I'VE shall do ouI utmost to
send this bill to hadeS, and we only
regret We cannot send its authors and
abettors there also.
At the coronation, King Edward will
wear cloth-of-gold under jacket, EN-
broidered with palm branches and the
shamrock, rose and thistle. On the
kings stole, the cross of St George,
the royal crown and the rose, sham
rock and thistle will be woven in gold
thread. His cape will be a magnifi
cent garment, decorated with silver
eagles and tleur de lyS and the national
floral emblems. Over three thousand
precious stones, diamonds. pearls.
rubies, sapphires and emeralds, will
be included in his crown. There will
be 1860 pure white diamonds and 1910
rose diamonds. The historic ruby
which the King of CASTLE gave to the
Black Prince in 1867, and which was
subsequently worn by Henry V at
Agincourt, is in the centre of the
crown, placed in the heart of maltese
cross. The queen will wear robes al
most exactly similar to those worn by
Queen Adelaide, of black velvet, man
ufactured on hand looms, deliberately
embroidered and laced. having gold
trimmings with huge hanging sleeves.
The coronation rites will last four
hours.
There have been many contradictory
stories in connection with the domes-
tic troubles of Queen Wilhelmina of
Holland this week. 1t is said that
she reproved the prince at dinner for
some breach of manners, he had been
and responded insultingly and /.
struck her, wheieupon her aide de camp
with the result that a duel /
with swords was fought in which the !
prince wounded Maj. Van Tets, the /
aid de camp. so seriously that he has .
since died. The prince has also wound /
ed another gentleman in a duel. The /
queen is said to have deeply regretted /
these duels, to have insisted upon her \
husband s begging Van Tets pardon as
well as her own before she would for /
give him. Van Tets was one of the ten |
noble youths who formed the body /
guard of the young queen when she |
was married in February, and who
pride themselves on their servitude.
The story, and all others connected
with any difficulties between the
queen and her consort, are vigorously
denied by Dutch officials for political
but the queens subjects
know she is unhappy and are indignant
at the prince whom they blame un-
qualifiedly as brutal, neglectful and