, 1908-02-22

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The Grown Prince has returned from
st. Moritz.
The deaths are announced of General
Henrik Cast enskjold, Otto Zinek, the actor,
and the wife of Mr.. Fischer, former police
master of st. Thomas.
The st. Jan arrived at Copenhagen on the
sixteenth.
Communication with Demerara restored.
London, Feb. 21st-Three hundred men
of the Royal garrison artillery have been
drafted to Sunderland to assist the police a.
gainst demonstrations of the unemployed,
the result of the strike in the shipbuilding
trade, which is assuming larger proportions.
The House of Commons has passed the
fist reading of Mr.. Gladstone's bill for an
eight hour working day for golfers.
Yesterday Sir Edward Grey announced
that England and the United States were
Negotiating a general arbitration treaty, but
that any further statement would be pre-
mature.
The Argentine Republic protests against
the inclusion of the Falkland Islands IN the
Rome Postal Convention as a British colony.
Argentina regards the islands as her pos
session:
Their Majesties court at Buckingham
Palace; the formal official opening of the
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account Of the assassinations at Lisbon, was
held yesterday. A narrow strip of Grape
worn on the left arm was the only sign of
mourning. which did not blemish the
accustomed brilliancy of the costumes. An
excep, ional number OF d butantes were pre-
scented.
A Paris telegram announces that the
French foreign otic in a communicate states
that Frances sole motive in rendering pro-
lection to the Haytian refugees in the Go
naiyes c., nsulate is to ensure lawful and hui
name treatment for them when they leave
the prot ection of the French flag. France
recognize. the Flrminists to be revolution
lists.
The French Senate has voted conf
dence in the Governments Morocco po-
licy, disre garding the newspaper reports
of the difficult situation of the French
troops. During the debate it was de-
clared that France faces the necessity of
evacuation or sending ali u: my OF one hum
drel thousand men, and while he5ltatlng,
Spain is taking all she wishes upon the coast,
and England will soon take Tangler. Gene
raj Picquart, the Minister of War, denounced
such sensational reports. Frances action, he
declared, was limited by the Algeciras Con-
9%ention.
Berlin dispatches report it is understood
that the Kaiser and Prince Won BuloW agree
against the annexation Of the Farsan Islands
in the Red Sea, as Germany does not desire
new territory anywhere, and must coneen-
trate every energy upon the development of
her
Herr Sydow, under Secretary Of Posts and
Telegraphs, has been appointed Imperial
Treasurer, vice Baron Won Stengel, resigned.
st. Petersburg advices state that
the Court Martial trying Generals Stoes-
sci, Fock, Reiss, and Smirnof for the
surrender of Port Arthur, after DELHI
Grating for two days and repeatedly ad-
iourning, indicating the difficulty Of an
agreement, has ordered General Fock to be
reprimanded for a disciplinary offense un-
connected with the surrender, Generals
Reiss and Smifnof to be acquitted for
deficiency of proof, and General Stoessel to
be shot. When General Vodar read the
last sentence, a suppressed gasp ran through
the courtroom; General Stoessel stood will
soldierly rigidity, betraying merely a NOM
entary uneasiness. A petition will be sent,
to the Gar to commute General Stoessel's
sentence to ten Years Imprisonment in a
fortress, with exclusion from the service,
in consideration of the fact that under his