New-York tribune., 1906-07-29
WORLD AFFAIRS VIEWED BY OBSERVERS ABROAD |
PUBLIC DISAPPROVES OF
BERNHARDT AFFAIR.
Especial by French Gable TO The Tribunal
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council Of the order OF the Legion of Honor 70
approve the conferment of decoration on Nine
Sarah Bernhardt is meeting with strong public
disapproval. Hagues Destrem touches on It
In "Happei" He declares that the 'affaira
Dreyfus' is not at an end. but has simply be-
come the 'affaire Sarah Bernhardt" He points
out that the council OF the order has given no
reason for its refusal. but has contented itself
with throwing out hints which might very wen
come within the law of slander What" ex
claims NJ. Destrem, more secret evidence. an
o'her sentence passed on the strength OF mys-
terious and suspicious documentsl Nothing IS
iiiOrS lesitlhate than TO remain silent, but when
speaking begins everything should be said"
AN AVERAGE WHEAT CROP.
The wheat crop is now being reaped. and thu
reports collated by the authorized technical pub-
Ncarion' Bulletin des Halles,' and also the esti-
mates OF the Ministry of Agriculture agree in
indicating that this years crop will be, as re-
CARDS quantity. an average one. that is 20 saw.
one hundred and sixteen million hectolitres. or
little over three hundred and nineteen million
bushels. while in quality the present crop
promises TO be exceptionally good. kilograms
received at the Corn Exchange from Odessa and
from Moscow show that the Russian wheat crop
will be very short in quantity and of inferior
quality. In the opinion of the leading wheat
dealers in Paris this Russian shortage will
greatly enhance the value Of the French crop
which IL the weather continues dry and warm
for the next few days during the harvesting,
will. so far as quality goes, be the best on record
HAGUE PROGRAMME APPROVED.
The resolutions passed by the conference Of
the Interparliamentary Union just brought to
close in London, are cordially approved by the
French Liberal papers. and the programme of
the next peace conference at The Hague is ac-
cepted as the best that could have been devised
but the Petite Republique' gives the keynote
TO the popular feeling in these words: mo mat
ter how pacific France may be, we must keep our
powder dry as long as we are surrounded by
powerfully armed nations" The French public,
while in full sympathy with the Douma. is now
convinced that the struggle for representative
government in Russia will be a long one, cover
ing probably half q dozen years. during which,
owing TO the want of education on the part Of
the masses and the lack of experience on the
part of the Liberal leaders, innumerable bIunders
will be committed and the reactionary advisers
Of the Car will profit by them. The feeling
here is on the whole that the Car is honestly
trying TO establish a parliamentary regime, and
st is only a question Of time when this will be
established. It is only few extreme Socialist
organs that attack Nicholas II personally. All
others express the hope Of seeing the Russian
revolution accomplished without the fall Of the
dynasty.
THE VAN WYCKS AT VICHY.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A Van wyck. with
a party OF friends. arrived vichy yester-
day in an automobile on their way to Lyons. All
are IN good health and enjoying their motor trip
through France Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Drexel
left Paris to-day for Carlsbad in a motor car.
are in Paris intending to start in a few days in
automobile for Carlsbad. where are more
Americans this season than ever before. Mr..
and Mrs Longworth, with Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Carroll, left Carlsbad on Wednesday in an auto
car for Bayreuth. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Inter
myer left Carlsbad the same day in an auto
/ car for Ostend. Mr.. and Mrs. Speyer, OF New
/ York, make daily excursions in the neighbor-
hood of Carlsbad in their autocar. Indeed,