, 1908-02-19
TELEGRAM
ST.. CROIX

Lond.u, Feby I6th.-Mr7. Pankhurst
publishes a letter protesting against the ar
re IL of s1ffragettes when not disorderly, the
offence being merely political should be
treatea politically, and che demands that the
G ,verament facilitate MI. Stanzer's Woman
Sutftage B Ii il the House of Commons on
Feb. twenty eighth as the sole means of
stopping the agitation. About o dozen of
the i'm prisonad suffragette8 having accepted
the alternative Of giving recognizances have
been released. much to the disgust of their
sterner sisters.
The strike in the shipbuilding trade in the
Tyne district will shortly be greatly extend
ei by a lockout at the end of the present
week and by a strike of the allied trade en-
giuaeys, an Overwhelming majority being OPP
posed to any reduction Of wages. Many
thoa4An Is will be idle unless q compromise
is effected.
The D.ily chronicle denies the report, that
Sir Henry Campbell Zimmerman will ac-
cept q peerage, but asserts that his
health will necessitate his resigning the
Premiership; he will, however, ret in his seat
in the House of Commons, Ike AIr. Gladstone.
He is unable, it says, to direct the Cabinets
policy, explaining it to be duo to lack of
lomo5eueity through the Ministers being
left too much to themselves.
A despatch from ST. Petersburg says the
Ambassadors of the five powers assert that
hostilities are almost impossible, nevertheless
q war scare is general. The Turkish re-
serves have been summoned 10 the colours
t ON Ill the ~vilayets in Asia Minor, lnsplr-
ing protests against q war which would be
as disastrous as the famine has already been.
The leader of the majority in the D)una
declares the surest protection against a rup-
l =: -- Z sar o3r onEi1 n N 70 oo1
the Douma would not allow Russia to be again
em5roil9a unprepared. Siberian troops are
reported to be moving towards o point of
concentration on the Turkish frontier both
these movements are perhaps merely q 81
pantie bluff. The Russian press unanimously.
@eupport q complete entente with England
for comDe. ling Austria to abandon her pro-
iec7 Of u railway from Vienna to Athens via
Novi Bazar, thus compelling Russia to
build from RaduieVatz to Antlvarl.
The German Ambassador at Washington.
formally denies that Germany is party to a
secret treaty supporting Austria, and asserts
that Germany is loyal to the Macedonian re-
forQs according to the Muerzsteg programme.
Germany, le ADDS, is striving hopefully to re-
lieve the Austro- Russian tension regarding
lAo 1ailw Us, aud her Intentions are equally
pacific regarding Belgium Holland and
the North Sea.
Ii is stated the Admiralty will introduce
increased naval estimates regardless of the
rnu;ost opposition, but even the enlarged
programme viii be an incomplete answer
to Germany. Germany's refusal at the
tIaguo Conference regarding the abolition
OF floating mines has specifically caused
Ror,1 upon FIVE mine-laylng vessels.
The Iangier correspondent OF the Pars
newsp per Gaulois reports that ten persons
have been killed and thirty injured by the
explosion ,of a steam pipe on the French
cruiser Dascartes.
A Lisbon telegram states that King Man
re! aad Oleen Amalia have received the
n5laar II d man who was killed as a regl-
c!44, ana informed her thy would care for