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OTHER LANDS THAN ours.


high prices and the diminished supply Of
butchers meat, due TO the closing OF the
frontiers against Importation. IL assuming
national proportions. and Is winning the
support OF great municipalities. such as
Berlin and Cologne. At a recent meeting
OF the Berlin Municipal Council. the sec
ond burgomaster. DR.. Reicke, disputed the
statements OF the Prusslan minister OF
agriculture General Won Podbielski. and
showed from statistics that serious
scarcity OF meat prevailed, and that prices
had risen to an amount which. so far
as the masses are concerned, lie almost
prohibitlve. He had received dozens OF
petitions from petty ofHcials and others,
who declared that heads OF households were
no longer in a position to buy meat for
their families. The government, he said,
would ultimately be compelled TO listen
to the representations OF the capital of
the empire. Various other speakers, In
Guiding Herr Singer, the socialist leader,
expressed the opinion that the present meat
rates would vastly increase the numbers
Of the social democracy. 1t was reckoned
that the average meat consumption Of a
family of four persons in Berlin had
hitherto been 600 kilogrammes per annum,
involving an expenditure of go marks In
view OF the rise in prSs this expenditure
luton was unanimously adopted appoint
ing a committee to consider and report
upon the situation, and upon the expedi-
ency OF petitlonins the government in favor
OF opening the frontiers.
A Russian colonel Of artillery stationed
In Tashkent declared recently that the an
nouncement OF Lord Cursons retirement
xicnr0xynify have
been welcome news to the Russian politi-
cal and military stats in central Asia,
and no less gratifying, he was convinced,
TO the Asiatic department OF the Foreign
ONCE at ST. Petersburg; but all, he added
would be infinitely more pleased IL Lord
Kitchener were also returning to Europe.
AT Tashkent," said the colonel, Lord
Kitchener has latterly been regarded as
the British military proconsul, who, with
an extension of his chief command, is
destined to cut the Gordian Knot Of the
Afghan question by supervising the buffer
state and making the British, Indian and
Russian frontiers In central Asia con-
terminous." The removal OF the buffer"
he proceeded to argue, was a certain
| eventuality Of the near future. Its con-
tinued existence imperlls the good rela-
lions between the two empires, and that
peril is not unlikely to become acute within
the next few years Englands attempt to
remove the buffer" he said, would prob
ably throw Afghanstan into Russian arms;
Russia's attempt to accomplish the same
task would have Just the contrary effect.
1.-THE Hungarian Crisis and the Hohen-
zollerns'' is the title OF an extreme Pan
cermanist tract that has just been pub
/ u author
| argues that Hungary can never be a really
hourshing and independent state until 1t
| has shaken of the Hapsburgs and installed
| a Hohenzollerp prince as king of Hun
| gary in their place To the German en-
! peror, he says, would fall the task of saw
ing the German-Austrians from being over
| whelmed by the Slav races The latter, he
adds would not be Influenced by senti-
mental consideration of the Emperor Joseph
| but would extend the Hohenzollern domain
from Hamburg to Trieste and Istria. Hun
| gary, like Rumania, under the indepen-
! dent Hohenzollern prince, would also stand
as a bulwark against Slav encroachment
in southeastern Europe, ana would have
the noble mission Of annexing Macedonia
as far as Salonika. The pamphlet, the cir
| culation of which has been forbidden In
Austria ana in Hungary, ends with an APP
the work he began by his philo-Magyar
toast at Buda on September 20, 1897 On
the other hand, a Hungarian journal, pub
lished for the Independents, declares ON
| the authority of AN Austrian ex-minister,
that the Emperor Francis Joseph's resist
ance to the Hungarian national demands is
chiefly due to the German emperor, who
! exerts decisive influence in all questions
likely to affect the efficiency Of the mill
| tary forces of the Triple Alliance. Far
! from being a friend OF Hungary, says the
writer, the Emperor william is a sworn
foe to Magyar national aspirations.
|
| Germany declares a European paper,
needs larger battleshIps. 1t says the Russo
Japanese war has shown that, with the
help of telescope sights, 1t is possible to
fire with success at a distance of 5000
| yards 5000 metres) or more. This is on
the assumption that you have the right
guns. Guns OF the largest calibre are es-
sential. To carry these, and to give them
a stable platform, large battleships are
necessary. This 10 why the English are
building the Dreadnaught, OF 1900 tons,
with an armament of twelve 12-inch guns,
the middle artillery being entirely dis
pensed with. The newest Japanese battle
| ship, N, is to have q displacement of 49,,
600 tons, and carry fouI 12-inch, twelve 10
inch and twelve 47-inch guns. With such
vessels the new German battleships Of the
o class, with their 1890 tons displacement
and their armament OF four 1l-inch four
teen 67-inch, and twenty 3.46-inch guns,
can bear no comparison. Beyond all doubt
Germany must increase the displacement
and armament OF her battleships.
|
The Russian newspapers, enjoying the
temporary relaxation of the censorship,
are full OF stories Of the maladministration
\ which is directly responsible for the recent
anarchy in the neighborhood Of Baku.
They say that the Tartars have been OPP
pressed In every way but chiefly by arbi-
trary dispossession. Finding no means OF
redress, the mounthineers have for years
resorted to brigandage as justihable
means Of livelihood. and have been encour-
aged in this belief by the neglect or ina
bllity Of the Russian authorities to punish
crime. The oil region has been systemati-
cally parcelled out among the original
owners OF the soil for purposes of black
mail, which every one had to pay unless
he wished his property TO be destroyed or
himself to be murdered or held 20 ransom.
| The recent labor strikes IL is explainad