Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-22

American shippers in Mukden hav,
made formal complaint to their consul Of
the fact that the japanese railroad in
Manchuria is discriminating against them.
This discrimination is carried ON By
means Of rebate system in which for
eign shippers are excluded from using the
lines under the minimum cargo regulation,
and that they are not allowed to combine
their cargoes as are the japanese.
In London the business session of the
seventeenth universal peace conference
was inaugurated with a speech by Lord
Courtney, who emphasized the close con-
nection between justice and peace. He
declared that there would be no more
wars if injustice were driven out of the
world, and that the first step in this d.
rection was to develop the strength, scope
and purity of international law.
The conviction of Tilak, leader of the
anti British forces in India, by the high
court at Bombay, on the charge of sedi-
ton, and his sentence to six years BAN
ishment and a heavy fine, has brought on
a fresh crisis. AS a demonstration of
sympathy, 10000 mill hands in Bombay
went on a strike. Rioting ensued, and
Europeans were stoned and jeered. a mag
istrate's house attacked and a mail train
held up The troops were called out and
had to fire solid shots into the crowd,
with fatal effect, before order was re-
stored.
The heirs of Antoine Siger, the Mayor
of Fort de France Martinique, who was
assassinated April 20 during a political
encounter, have entered a civil suit for
damages in Paris against the government
of Martinique, NJ. Lepreux.
The new patent law, which allows any
foreign patents to be revoked unless the
article so protected is manufactured or
the process operated in England, went
into effect the other day, and in conse-
quence the government estimates a rush
of industrial establishments from foreign
concerns to the amount Of $125,000,OOD
capital the first of the year.
Vice President Fairbanks and Ameri-
can army and naval officers were guests
at a state dinner given by the Prince OF
Wales on board the warship Exmouth the
evening the prince sailed from Quebec for
home.
The German government has taken an
other step ahead of its rivals by securing
rights to the aerial torpedo invented by
Col Unge of the Swedish army. The
purchase is made nominally by the Krupp
gun works. 1t is said that this torpedo
can be fred with great accuracy and
without noise, 50 as to be dropped inside
a fort or on the deck Of a ship with ex-
plosive power enough to destroy either.
A company is in process Of organiza-
ton at Berlin with a preliminary capital
of S125.O0O to establish a line of passen-
ger airships between the capitals Of Eu-
rope, based upon the recent success OF
Count ZeppeIin's airship. Prof. Schie-
man. in an article for the Kreuz Zeitung,
halls the event as one of political as well
Is scientific importance. Other papers
now are demanding the creation Of su-
preme aerial war feet
Reports from Tabriz continue 10 tell Of
victories won by the revolutionary forces
erer those of the Persian Shah, a strong
BODY of the latter having been ambuscaded
near Tabriz. The Shah still rules Te-
heran without regard to the constitution.