Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-04-03

OF marine, has impaired 10 new..
correspondent his settled connis. per
that the Dogger Bank torpedo ION
were fctions of a lively RUSSIAN , osts
nation. That any such boats Isl
nave been sunk without leavjn, 'o
trace behind. them is, he saw. Any
absurd proposition. II not %, al
whittier did they go? What wa. ..'
nationality? Had they telonraa '"eir
England: France. Germany, DenmarS
Vi any european power their absence
would have been observed immedIsta'''e
me only possible remaining tbeor,, =.
'hat they belonged to Japan Dr..
that case they could Only have 49,. ~
bought in Europe, and he canno, ~
lieve that any Of the great firms ~.
alone construct such vessels uo,.,,
have Kept silent, and incurred the r,s...
involved in case England or pns.,a
should discover the truth. Moreova.
II the alleged vessels had been a.
nese the Toxic government would no..
gladly avo"ed the fact. They womb
never by their silence have allowed
;helr ally 20 run the risk of war wi,h
Russia Therefore he is convinced ths,
the torpedo boats We're not exis,on,.
but he thinks, nevertheless, that IN,
Russians, acting under genuine m,son
prehension, were justified upon The
whole in firing as they did.
Egypt continues experiments with
motors. assisted by British enthusiast.
on the Cairo staff, and is irving n
conquer the desert with them. When
the sand is reasonably firm good nro.
gress is made, but the wilderness 10 No,
all that way. nor anything like u
When the sand is loose and Shifting
oiricultles are experienced and the
occupants of the machines have to get
out and push till they come to firmer
ground. A particular type of motor ia
made for these experiments. having
broad tires and being Otherwise ad-
justed to kind of service not existing
elsewhere. On the whole, the results
SO far obtained are satisfactory. with a
good prospect of others to follow. Hill
climbing experiments near Cairo re.
Gently turned out prosperously,
wagon carrying a load Ct several tons
teen minutes without a stop. The
principal aim so far is to adjust the
vehicles to army service. and the mill.
tary authorities seem to think they are
succeeding very well.
A correspondent of Brussels newspa-
Per. writing from Athens, sends informa-
ton Of new revolutionary movement in
Crete by which the party in favor of an.
nexation to Greece hopes to achieve its
object. He says that the various commit
tees are about to issue an appeal to the
at the forthcoming elections to
withdraw in body and another to the
voters asking them to abstain from going
to the polls. AS the majority OF the
electoral strike would p3ralyze the gov
ernment, while a chamber constituted
under such conditions would have no le-
gal standing. The strike, if partial in the
towns. would, it is believed, be pretty
nearly complete in most Of the country
and would in any case help to
develop the revolutionary spirit. 1t is re-
marked that many of those who hitherto
have approved Prince George, because of
his professed sympathy with their aspi-
rations, have now declared open war
against him. Pending the hOped-for union
with Greece. the committees have formu-
lated the following demands: Complete
liberty of the press; the election, as Op-
posed to the nomination of mayors the
right of meeting on the public highway;
by reducing public salaries
the reversal of the sentence passed on
soldiers in the late struggle, and the
of Cretan and not foreign
officers to the gendarmerie.
Hachettes Almanach du Crapeau gives
he statistics of the smallest armies in the
world. The smallest of them all is that Of
Monaco, with IS guards. rs carbineers and
70 tiremen. Next comes that Of Luxem
burg. with 35 gendarmes, 10 volunteers
and 80 musicians. In case OF war, say
he laws, 1.-The number of volunteers may
De temporarily raised to go" In the Re-
public of San Marine they have universal
service, with the result that
they can put in the field nine companies.
comprising go men and IS officers. COM
handed by marshal. This, however. Is
he war strength of the forces. On
peace footing the republic can only put
)ne company of 60 men on the parade
ground In the case OF the republic Of L.
oeria the most striking feature is the pro-
portion of officers to privates. There are
100 of the former and only 700 of the lat
Ter None the less the republic issues
of neutrality when wars
break out between the great powers OF