Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-09
Other Lands than Ours.

Other Lands than Ours.
II seems probable that at The next
gen. raj election III The l'nilcd King
d"n the neW labor party will pay Il
NOR" prominent part in Scotland than
they have D"r.l able to take before.
The leaders N" boaS.inE that they will
rum candidates &c their own in at least
oTc-elNth Of til" constituencies. 1t is
not generally believed that they will
@hccetd in carrying out this intention,
Pat it is certain that ihty will have
more candidates IN the feed than they
ever had before, and me knowledge OF
li!ii fact is causing some anxiety to
10th liberals and torres. The former,
who are likely 10 b" most seriously
.tT ted appoia,"d nearly a year ago,
Il 'r"lriiiatipn committee, whose duty
l. is To ,rcV' i L thrcc-cnrnercd con-
test Whenever il is possible to do So
Thus far this cnmmiitc has not been
particularly successful, except in Gia*-
Cow. The i,bo. lCadt r. declare that
they Will cOnt3S; every constituency i'll
which they c:tn control any consider
sJi" number of votes, and as their
rcrccs are recruited largely from tn
liberals, the later are uneasy, as any
considerable detection from them
you'd greatly diminish their chance OF
capturing UNI. mist seats held by mar
rev nlajoriti.S.
The reported agreement between
England Russia. France. Italy AMI
Austria. in r'G:;'d to the maintenance
IT the existing status OF Crete. will
make the position % Prince George,
The governor. very dlficrlt. He has
for some time past earnestly adro-
Gated Annexation to C!etcc. or an adj
m!Estra ion by thai kingdom similar
20 the r9le Of Austria in herzegovina.
IN behalf Of ;hi> PLAZA, Prince Georg.
visited various cou"ls without the
slightest success, as EoW appears. UNI
lcSs' we except 4 provision that the in
tcrnatioral states Of The inhabitants
may be changed 10y Il llebiscite. i'll tn
far distant futlre. Prince Georg" is
perhaps himself to blame Tor the desire
of the nations 10 continue the present
joint control, bis administration having
rot cnlr uuict"d u distressed and
turbulent r"tpi.. but having pr;i"-
f,r3lly taken crete out OF activ" iii"r-
nIIioual politics. thirn with Greece
would. however. apparently h" the best
solution Of he Questions involved.
King .tlph"nso Of Spain says that
rather than rot he wUl.iG wait two
years before no is married. The
youngst, + is in a matrimonial snarl
that is not OF his own making. His
people believe H. should be married
and he expressed 4 preference for
Princess Victoria Louise. the only
daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm. That
Young iady'.' father. however. vchc-
mtntly protests that he will not COZ
sen, to have his daughter ahjure til"
Lutheran 10 accept the Roman
catholic faith. 50 tn II marriage is off
Princess Patritia. daughter of the
Duke Of ''olnaught OF the british
royal family>. nigh: be willing to
adopt i;onIau Catholicism. but
All,hunso'S Ihoth II cX-Quccn Christina.
prefers Arcn~ Duchess Gabrielle of
Austria who is already "i tn" Is"nish
faith. Meantime there are cliuurs in
h.. Madrid court. rs III all courts ana
the matrimonial question is making
cn.n,ics of forhl-r fri nus and Il lot of
trouble for tIe ncopl" most Interested
Another great engineering achieve
ment is to be recorded in the final
piercing of the tunnel under the SIM
nlun pass opening a new thorouShiare
between the north Of Europe and the
tcrrancan. With its length of
twelve miles from Brieg to Isellc it be-
comes the longest of all tunnels but it
has been preceded as Il cutting through
the Alps by three others. the Mount
Cents, tie st. Gothard and the Arlberg
tunnels. 1t will help to turn trad"
again into the Mediterranean and will
increase the Importance of the port of
Genoa. Even more notable than the
cinecril2 difficulties that have been
met and surmounted in the heart
of the mountain. conveying les
sons second in Importance only
to the commercial value of the
undertaking. The popularity of
the Sinplon tunnel is that it is pierced
through at a low level. the Swiss and
italian entrances being only about ZOO
feet above the sea. The gradient is
therefore easier than that of any of its
competitors. The successful piercing
of the Simplon may lead to further
construction at Il low level. regardless
of the length Of tunneling required.
Although King Oscar III of Sweden
and Norway has just passed into his
seventy-seventh year and is POLITICALLY"
declared far from we'll man. it
should not be supposed that his retire
ment from active participation in state
affairs in favor of Crown Prince GuStaf
is Il permanent matter. Twice before
he has rrlinquished the reins of gov
crnment in similar circumstances and
these periods of partial royal eclipse
have always been marked. as is the
present case. by an acute stage i'm the
negotiations between the Swedish and
Norwegian Cabinets for independent
consular services. 1t is an open ques-
ton whether the aged monarch actual
~ wears himself out over the notorious
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