, 1908-06-24

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minimum schedules, as they infer that Eng
land should have a higher revenue tariff
as a basis for bargaining with the United
States to obtain fair trade.
The Kings garden party at Windsor OBJ
scures Mr.. Asquith's speech at Birmingham
and the proceedings of Parliament. Nine
thousand invitations were issued, most of
those invited being present, including sew
eral Labourites in unconventional costumes.
This liz a measure compensates for the dis
appointing Ascot week, which included but
a single fine day, and the weather on Satur-
day was beautiful. No formal presentations
were made, their M~ajesties sending equer-
ries for those they wished specially to see.
The delegates to the Pan Anglican Confer
ence and numerous colonial guests were
conspicuous among the local celebrities.
The King and Queen will attend the
Prince and Princess of Wales entertainment
in honour of the Pan-Anglican delegates at
Marlborough House.
1t is asserted that there were half q mill
lion spectators of the suffragette demon
s%tration yesterday, and for several hours
the centre of London was agitated by
the rassage of seven professions, each
a mile long. The provincial stuff "a gettes
arrived at various railway stations and
marched from there with local escorts and
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twenty SPEAKERS. The Suffragettes were
mostly dressed in white, with sashes of vari-
Gus colours, bearing appropriate legends,sug g.
g%estive of % garden party. The demon
strants appeared to be intensely interestod;
there was some s%cuff1tng and roWdyism around
Mrs. Pankhurst's platform, but this was quiz
eted 10y the police;thirty minor injuries were
treated by surgeons. The onlookers were
mostly curious and tolerant.
A Paris despatch reports that the Cham
Der Of Deputies has debated the situation in
Morocco. In the severest of the six inter
pellations the government we're accused of
laundering in having backed the wrong horse
and of incompetency in refusing to recognize
Mulai Hafd. The Chamber applauded VI.
Pichon's declaration that there had been no
protest of France exceeding her man late, and
the Cabinet were incapable of inviting q
limitation or submitting to it. NJ. Deschan-
ell declared that Algeria and Tunis would
have long since been occupied by others
if Frances policy. had resembled that sug-
gested for Morocco. In the result the gov
eminent were sustained by a vote Of 348
against 1875. The German ambassador was
pres Mt.
The feeling in Germany has not been so
nervous since the crucial days of the Morocco
crisis in 1905. A denial that the Kaiser spoke
as recently telegraphed ELECTS declarations
that the words. if unspoken, nevertheless express
German sentiments. A miniature war scare
on the German exchanges is stated to be
due to the appreciation that King Edward
has succeeded where M. Delcasse failed In
isolating Germany by a new triplice. Eng
land remains calm during the sabre rafting
process which facilitated the German Gov
ernment's legislative pro gtamme.~
The Brussels correspondent of the Daily
Chronicle reports that Germany will inter-
vene to cause an international conference on
the CONGO question, and that king Leopold
has been informed that the Kaiser and
Prince Won Bulow agree upon this point.
Advices from Amsterdam state that Ba-
bel followed o proposal that the Women's
Suffrage Congress should adopt universal,
instead of limited, women suffrage. It was
finally resolved that each country should
adopt it's own policy. A proposal to form
an alliance with the socialists was indignant
ly rejected, and the meeting adjourned after
a proposal for a great international cam
paign in England had been made.
England and Russia haze represented to
Persia their intention to support the dyn-
asty, including the Shah's SOD, and that the
pretensions of the Shah's uncle are mad
missible.