Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-02

| the French army, with numbers increased
/ and with training unquestionaby equal 10
modern demands, would fight with advant-
age against the German army. He does not
| know, he says. which side would be vic
torious but there would be a hard struggle
between two armies worthy of each others
steel While admitting the high qualities
OF the German infantry. he points out that,
inspired by the spirit Of tradition, It still
holds to the methods which secured its sue
cess in 1870. There was a great deal of
talk in Germany about Boer tactics recon-
mended by the emperor himself. but 1t has
now been proved that the German infantry
has returned to its former system. A COM
parison Of the tactics of the two armies in
delivering an attack upon artillery shows.
IN the generals opinion, that in some re-
spects the German infantry is inferior to
the French. The French cavalry, he holds, is
| not inferior to the German. while the
French artillery is unquestionably superior.
| At the present moment Germany, he says,
only possesses a quick-fring gun capable
OF discharging four to five rounds a minute
at the outside. 1t cannot therefore, be
compared with the French gun, which has
been in use for eight years, and has the
| unquestionable advantage Of firing ten to
fifteen rounds a minute.
|
| The Australian federal premier has in
troduced the amended immigration bills into
the commonwealth House of Representa-
tives. The first bill empowers the common
, wealth, by means of treaties with other
governments, to arrange that merchants
and tourists shall travel in the country
under passports. The second provides that
workmen under contract may be admitted,
If the contract is in writing and approved
! by the minister concerned. The conditions
Of such approval are that the workman
must not be imported 20 interfere in an
industrial dispute, that the employer is un-
able to obtain within the country a work
man Of his kind equally skilled, and that
the contract wages are the same as those
current in Australia among workers of a
similar class. The bill does not apply to
domestic servants Mr.. Deakin I'm his in
troductory speech, explained that while
carrying out the white Australian" poll
icy. he did not wish to cast a slur on any
other people, and in particular wished to
avoid hurting the susceptbilities Of British
Indians and Japanese, in one case subjects,
in the other allies, of the British empire.
London has 267S9 persons on its lists of
lunatics. OF these A,2S2 are supported by
the rates. The County Council Is at its
wits end trying to devise accommodations
for the rapidly increasing numbers of the
city's insane. January l. 1904, England and
| Wales, with about 80 100000 inhabitants, had
ll1l99 insane persons-an increase of 1924
over 1903. The ratio of insane 10 every
10000 of the population went up from 341l
| to An in twelve months. This almost in
credible and dangerous increase is far be-
yond the recorded increase in the king
doms population. Indeed, the decade 1884
1904 shows that the number of the insane
was as one to 327 in 1894, and as one to 2SS
in 1904 At this rate of increase the end
of England s. supremacy in many lines is in
sight. Luckily, before it is too late, legis-
lation may devise methods of meeting the
matter and securing a remedy.
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The Paris correspondent Of a London
journal enumerates the names of the pol
iticians who are mentioned most frequently
as possible successors of President Lou
bet. The chance of NJ. Fallieres, president
of the Senate. is thought to be good, though
it is remarked that-this may be among the
long-expected epeRts that do not bappen.
M. Leon Bourgeois is still spoken of as
likely candidate and in some respects
If not in all, a suitable one. NJ Doumer
the president of the Chamber of Deputies
is another favorite, though not with the
advanced republicans. whose opposition
helps to make him popular with the Centre
and Right parties. Some think that M
Rtbot would be good president though
he lacks the support of the advanced ele.
ment. 1t is believed that the prime min.
ister NJ. Rouvier, would not refuse the
presidency II 1t should be offered to him
somewhat vague article that appeared
in leading Partisan journal recently. Is
believed to have been in the interest OF
! his candidature although 1t did not men.
ton his name. There are those who be.
lieve that NJ. Loubet himself may at the
last moment be prevailed upon to stand TO,
a second term, in spite of repeated dccIara.
lions by himself and his friends that n,
is bent upon retirement. Among/the darl
horses is NJ. Sarrien, who for many year,
has been noted secret power in politics.
The general Postoffice department of IN,
: German Imperial government is now build
ing wireless telegraph station of mon
strous height at Norddeich, which rroba
bly, Will be for the time being the mos
ef1cient in the world. 1t is expected 4
J cover circuit OF not less than 9ss miles
AAAo StdNiOu Will convey not only MESA gel
to and from Germany, Switzerland, France
Great Britain and Denmark, but also tn,
? larger part of Italy, Sweden and Norway
. and even portions of Spain. the Balkan
: peninsula, and Russia; TO the southeast 4
will operate as far as Saragossa, I'm tn,
south II will almost reach Naples an,
CetinJe, in the east get close to St Peters
burg and in the north it will talk to tn,
: people at Drontheim and about half wa,
D up to Narvik. German vessels homewar,
> bound from America will be able to com
municate with the German station a
= Norddeich when they are still on the At
S lantic far beyond Lands End, twelve de
? grees west OF Greenwich. The installation
at the station will be set up by a Berlil
firm supplying machinery, apparatus an
accessories for wireless telegraphy, &C
j cording to the system called "telefunken
a Marvellous Progress of the JRps.
New York Tribune.
An ambassador from Japan viii be pc
i | cuiiarly welcome at Washington and Their