The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-14
T RANCE SANSNER
T0J.APANESE NOTE:
Mikado's Fleet Would !
Been Treated Just the Sam
Had 1t Been First.
ALLIANCE WEIGHT
Attached to Visits Of
King Edward and the Medi-
cal Profession.
Special Cable to The Times Dispatch and
Nav, vnrk IJera1d .7,f'4lt

Especial Cable to Ths Times Dispatch and
New York Herald.)
5 Copyright, by the New York Herald Coz
PARIS, May 13.-We aretpassing through
a real little crisis in strikes. Tho work
ingmen masons Of Abb are ON strike
tho miners Of st. Blel are on strike. the I
BARRIERS OF Marseilles are on strike, de-
manding living wage as a minimum,
the Limitation of the days labor and g
weekly holiday. Tho baker boys of Nan-
tes have organized strike, which took
an unlucky turn when they wished to
hinder the delivery Of bread and to break
into the shops OF the masters. These
have come to terms by agreeing to one
day Of leave monthly. III
But the most original and the most
dangerous strikers are always those OF
Limoges. They have had the singular
idea OF laying siege to the factory OF an
named Beaulein and Of pre-
venting the inhabitants OF the factory
house from going In or coming out Tor
getting supplies of food It has been nec-
essary to call In gendarmes and sol "a
'dicrs, for one cannot really allow such &
acts OF actual civil war, and the repub!i 10 1
is manifestly concerned in.not letting the 4
F,rench public believe that 1t Is Incapable
OF assuring order. Although 1t is i conl-E \
PEELED to deal ,tactfully with the Social. (
lists, whose deputies vote with the govern
mont, il this idea should take root IN
French brains the government would be /
indeed in n bad way, and one sWould nave I
to take stock in such incidents as that
which happened the other day to Al.
Dubig, the Minister Of Commerce, VIM
was accompanying NJ. AIascurand. tne ! 3
new senator of the Seine, to Lille, TO pre-
side at a banquet given by the Commit
tee Of Commerce and Industry. The So
cialists OF Lille hissed and insulted thd
VITO orators and gang the .'InternationaH
waving tho rcd flag.
Frances Reply TO Japan.
b Apart from these occurrences and some ON.
ministerial speeches on the separation OF
Church and State in the ceremonies Of
the Domi MICA rs, we have had a sensa 4
5tional exchange Of notes between apans
and France on the question OF sho wing
OF neutrality 81 not with regard ~ heS
Russian fleets. f ts y u 5si t
Japan declares that in the tef.risGrsstis
waters OF Madagascar and those OF ~ dt{l3.
China the Russians have been able TO So
fill their coal bunkers and prepare thstl.s.-83
selves for tho war; France freptleS ltttt ltttS
she has not transgressed her tradi ions
Of neutrality; that the coal bong hts by
tho Russians was, as a matter OF 10 g,
English or German coal, and that, mo re-
over IL the Japanese had anticipated s the
Russians. instead of awaiting them, We
should have treated their fleet Ike the
Russian feet. II, .,jti
Lastly, the government Insists !: . ! on n an an
argument which has great I'M ortance ~.
the moment It Is that Eng gland. the ally
OF Japan. has found our conduct correct
The Entente Cordiale' With
England.
Tho English argument will have much
weight, as tho entente cordiale" Of Eng.
land and France is esteemed an event
OF the first magnitude in actual clrcum-
stances. There Is reason on all occasions
for accentuating these evidences OF FRIEND,
ship, such as the visit Of King Edward t
to Algeria and France, and IN another
class of Ideas the hearty reception given
by our medical profession and our author-g ,L
tiles to the English medical men who are
at this moment stopping N Paris % !
make a return visit to the French doc
tors for that which they received iTo1u 'l
ouf p''s s40'i 80 ]. coRNELY.