, 1908-10-07

BhOWl hin during MS COHr Ia VeneIuo"
strengthens the expectation that England
will ioiu Germany in supporting Venezuela's
pos ton.
jamaica, 3rd-German cruiser Freya ar
rived today.
London, Oct. 5th~-Despatches from Bonn.
bay report that seven thousand boiies have
been recovered at Hydetabad, and the larger
estimates of the loss of life are thus confirm
ed.
The General Committee of the Amateur
Athletic Association have permanently sus-
pended T. G. Carpenter for fouling w. Halls
welie, in the final of the four hundred metres
race, at the Olympic Games.
An explosion OF the turbine engines at
Chelsea blocsed practically the entire service
of the un ergronnd railway. Passengers were
greatly alarmed and walked to the exits, fol-
lowing porters with lanterns.
Very unreasonable heat, up to eighty de-
Trees in the shade, has prevailed for several
days, and shopkeepers, who are now display
ing there winter goods, are greatly perplexed.
The Daily Chronicle is initiating the Times
by publishing a cheap edition Of Mor.ey's lie
of Gladstone.
MrLloyd George,in the course of a speech,
asserted the distress among the unemployed
was a reproach TO British wealth. Engiands
natural resources, he declared, were not ere
at6u by caplIal ana Inc NoIhHleL NAu w
receive their share of Natures common gifts.
The burden of depression, he continued, was
not equally shared by all classes he knew q
dozen men whose income at The worst would
support fifty thousand workmen and their
families, yet they demand a protective tariff,
and proclaim the distress is Que to the fact
that the workmen's bread is still untaxed.
The first charge, he added, upon England's
natural resources should be the maintenance
above want OF those giving their labor, brain
and muscle to England's development. The
speech has created IA sensation.
The Post Office, since the reduction of
postage between England and the United
States, is overworked, the mails being dou-
bed, perhaps tripled; one firm alone has sent
ten thousand letters for advertising pur-
poses.
The Daily Hail, not expecting its prize of
ten thousand pounds for a fight from Lon
don to Manchester to be won this year, now
offers FIVE hundred pounds for the first
aeroplane crossing the Channel, it's intention
being to- stimulate competition between
Wright ,Farman and Delagrange, oil of whom
have covered greater distances.
A telegram from LIE Mans states that Mr..
Wilbur Wright has flown with q passenger
for over fifty five minu' es, q distance OF thir-
ty six niles. This record approximates to
the United States Army requirements, which
his brother Orv lie was attempting to fulfil
when his airship fell and Lieutenant Self
ridge was killed.
Paris advices state that the Austrian Am
bassador asked NJ. Pichon, the Minister for
Foreign Affairs, to arrange an interview with
President Fullieres for the presentation of
an autograph letter from theEmperorFrancis
Joseph, and was subsequently received by
the President, who later received the Prime
Minister.
The Matin, commenting on the foregoing,
says that Emperor Francis Joseph communi-
Gated to President Fallieres his views upon
the near Eastern question and the necessity
for the annexation of Bosnia and Herzego-
yina, if Bulgaria takes the initiative in an
nulling the treaty of Berlin, also declaring
that unless the signatories of the treaty Of
Berlin are unanimous it will be difficult to
check Bulgaria.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Times says that Bulgaria will proclaim her
independence today, and Austria will annex
Bosnia and Herzegovina tomorrow, Germany
and Italy supporting Austria, and that Rus
sia will shortly raise the question OF the
Dardaneiles.
The Paris Temps anticipates a Turco-
Bulorrian war. unless Prince Ferdinand