Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-09-02
LONDON, Sept. 2.-Turkey has al

LONDON, Sept. 2.-Turkey has al
last definitely awarded the contract
fer battleship of the so-called
"Dreadnought" type to w. G. Arm.
strong, Whitworth and company Of
| Tyne and to Vickers
Limited, the latter to furnish the arma
! ment The government reserves the
| right of ordering another vessel 1T the
! same price.
The new battleship, it is said, will
be the largest warship in the world.
Tic price to be paid is considerably
higher than that at which the i'cth.
!eEem Steel company of America IN
conjunction with another English tirm
offered to build the ships. However,
| as the Grand Vizier candidly told
diplomat who was supporting the ten
der of the American company, FUR
, key. by placing the contract with the
successful tenderers will obtain COM
, pensation in other directions which
, will more than make up for the IN
creased cost of the ship.
t It has not yet been disclosed or
what these congregations will consist,
but it -, is generally understood that
| the British minister at Constantinop1e
| was able to inform the porte that the
acceptance of the Armstrong tender
might induce the British government
to look with a kindlier eye on the
Turkish proposals for the settlement
of certain questions Outstandlsg be-
| tween the two countries. Among these
were questions arising out OF the
steamboat monopoly held by a British
company to operate steamers on Turk
ish rivers; nOn-interference with Tur'
KEYS plans in Albania; and the long.
standing dispute over the building Ct
the :Bagdad railway. On the latter
subject active negotiations are now
proceeding in the Turkish capital,
with good prospects of success and
the ultimate completion of the line.
Besides the support of the govern
ment the British shipbuilders have
good press agents and frequent para
graphs appear in the London papers in
which it is intimated that among 9TH
er contracts that for the building of
the Chilean warships is to be given to
contracts have not been let and it may
be months before they are. American,
British and continental firms all have
agents in the Chilean capital and even
before the fall of the late government
very little progress had been made
towards the signing of the contracts.
An cfJor: is at Last to be male TO
relieve the newspapers of England
from SONG of the evils th*v suffer
rn0er the present law of libel. Be.
sides having to pay manv claims Of a
/ "a ck!rai]inE character, invariably
when a newspaper defenus IN action
for i5el the jury gives The claimant
!.cl.. dam ges, very often against tho
advice Of the judge. To avoid this
Sir George Toulmin has introduced a
bill in the House of Comnlc'lS, which
provides that if Judge is satisfied
that he alleged libel is trivial. and
t;:at The "crds complained Of have
beer published in good faith, he may
stay all f. oceedings, unless the plain
Tin gives security for the defendants
costs.
Other provisions of the hill are that
fair AM accurate reports Of :utEc
meetings, proceedings in court and
the finding of the courts, although
the finding be subsequently varied,
and any fair and bona fide comment
thereon, shall be privileged. At pres
ent a paper cannot comment on any
verdict until it has reached the final
court, by which time in many cases.
all public interest in the matter has
been lost.
The House of Commons has lost one
of it's Oldest and most popular figures,
in the sudden death of Collins, the
headwaiter of the smoking-room He
had charge of what is known as the
Upper Smoking-room, one of the ex-
elusive rooms into which the men,
beers cannot introduce a stranger.
Collins, an Irish cockney, was one OF
those quiet, unobtrusive servants OF
the old school, who knew the wants
of all his clients and took them their
accustomed drink as soon as they en-
tered the room. He, too, was tull
of information and Chancellor Lloyd
George once said that when he wished
to know what the House of Commons
was going to do he went to the best
informed man-Collins.
One of the interesting features of
the procession of the G0rsedd Bards
to the Mystic Circle at the Eistedd
fod, the national assembly of Welsh
bards at Carmarthen, Wales, was the
presentation of a daughter of the
poet, Henry w. Longfellow to the
venerable Archdruid.
In company with party of 100
Welsh-Americans, the poets daughter
made the pilgrimage from Boston and
the Welsh-Americans expect to make
an annual pilgrimage to the gather.
ing. Before the presentation a repre-
sentative of the Breton Gorsedd
mounted the Logan-stone and made
address in excellet Welsh. Tie same ,
day also saw the investiture and in
itiation of the successful candidate
for bardic degrees.