The Springdale news., 1908-01-03
How Foreign Lands
 Have Net Their Crises.

How the patliS tfcti by tllfs NdFpN, nations ot tac civilized world tend t6 converge toward I common ground o4 experieaee.n understanding aud sym pathy may be observed i'll the span of a single year.
 ENGLAND In the hands of the Liberal crew. with Premier Campbell BaHaernan Ut the wheel. kfHg i. E
 wards ship of state has gropcd ITS wa4 forward through gathering e5oa 5. of social unrest and industrial deRE" sion getting some pretty hard bumps Fear Of the ysine tide ef Seeiali sla
 brought Conservatives and Liberals virtually into the same camp. De eisisc moves made by the Banne= man government were the passage os church diseStablishment i'll principle by the eonlnonS III lebrnM,4 tue al lance with Spain in March. the ap= prapriation of S1.a0n.neo for old az pensions next year the proposal ef HI Irish home rule bill providing an eleez tive national council subject ta vetn az lord lieutenant. but which was with drawn after being rcieeted by the tFi@h party. i'll May. the pfopasa to dt'"5 ish the veto power If the house 9= lords passed by the commons tt Nf. .g, by vote of 432 to 131 and the refer enee of the Newfoundland fishery dis pute with America 10 The lIaguc tri= bunal The government resisted with much difficulty the growing movement for womau suffrage
 J ., N tIfss The afffonl 10 the Unit ed States in the eJt,t.tiop of Admiral Davis from Kingston wien his tte1 had volunteered help to the earthquake sufferers was appeased hy the retire ment Q. Governor SWettenham
 CANADA The influx of orientll9 culminated in serious riots at Naucna yer SEPT j. for which due ap"lo@ .'S were made tp Japan. The new I.eld' day law went into effect making line Canadian sunday as blue aS T whe' stone
 RUSSIA. A.- The revolution of force has taken yea off. campafatis'5t spe;ll,f". While the organization 0t terrnrist~ haS made itself felt iu tae assas~ieatien of q number of army and proYilfei3l o"jeflls beginning in Jai: mr1 with General PaeloH. known .ts the. ..ElAuguan." and including sever plots agai fst fse life ef the ear him self tffs forward movement in RuSs.t has caatentct dsctt with hc pfogfc-z= i've P,t szals4ada ef tte press and educa@ ton 43le 9c@4Hd douRu. which MS opeae8 MARCH j. efashed with the government from fhc start over tn. question ot martial law throughout tde country After the donna had repc.lt. ed | portion of the court martial code and the premier had demanded the expulsion of members suspected If treason. suddenly the douma was dis soINed by virtual military coup d.etat JUNis It. Under new electoral pro gramme intended to exclude the So- ciaif>t and radical elements, third donna was chosen and began it's ses= sioas N0N. '. combination of Con. stitutional Democrats and 0ctobrisf> in control
 GERMANY The government 0f EaI- peror William had the satisfaction of decreasing the numerical streugtH IF The Seialists in the reichstag as tAe result of tbe February elections Ghaaeeiter von RHioW took this f, a vote of confidence n0fNttsta
 thdt tho Socialists were abie to F to thc f5ct that their popHlar vote @ grea> ' increased. the reduction their representation being due ta t. anomalous electoral laws. Tho g9E ernment WAS greatly embarrassed oyer the exposHre of immoral life alaO4. high court and army officials bf l.. iter Harden of zHkunft. who wds IL quilted III October If the charge of defamation preferred by Count voA Moltke.
 FRNNCE.-T elenenceau ministry steerea tl,c republic through | pcriel of internal disturbances closely resc39 bling civil war. past the dange.oes waters of church and state separatioa and has begun a costly war Of disci