The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-11
News Of The World
Happenings of Interest In
 Foreign Countries
Husband Punished and Wife Vindicated By Kings De cree - Statistics Worth Knowing.

Knowing.
 Paris, Jan. 10.-The Society Of Sta Hstics has just made public these facts concerning the worlds business:
 In negotiable paper there is in all the world. in round numbers $16S,- GOO, 900, 900 divided among the countr. .es as follows: England. 2s billion dollars; United states 2e billion; France 21 bil- lon' Germany IS bil ion; Russia, 6 billion; Austria, billion; Italy be- tween and billion; Japan, billion other countries to billion.
 There are in the world 614, ,924 miles of railway. Of these, 315.147 nGlss are in North and South America; POS, ,246 in Europe the remainder, about 95,000 miles, in Asia, Africa and Oceanfca- The average value in Europe, per kilo- metre dve-eights of a mile) Is about $8o, 900. In the other countries the av- craze is but $4S, 900.
 Internatr oual commerce at the end of 1910 is valued at from 26 to 27 billion dollars; pubic debts (European0 con tracted in war preparations are over is over a billion. In conclusion M AL fred Neynarch. who compiled the fig ures says:
 Never were there more negotiable pa pers- Never was the international commerce figures higher. Never was there a greater number of mLleS of railways in exploitation Never were the commercial relations of the peo- ples of the world more active. Never were the public debts bigger; the war budgets larger, or taxes so high. New CT was the taxpayer more heavily burdened.
 London, n1o-"Who's who" for 1912 which has just been issued shows an alarming increase in greatness. Time was. quarter of a century ago. when the great men and women of England could be counted on ones fingers. There are this year in the country 24,00O persons who were born great. achieved greatness, or had greatness thrust upon them by, the among the greater great. who sad it is getting to be. something less than a distinction to get into Who's Who.''
 Bangkok. Jan. 1o-The queen-mother of Siam. it Is announced, will leave next next April for a visit to Europe The European courts in September and will return by way of the United States.
 Luang Rahsanart has been deprived of his title and otherwise punished by order of his majesty the king"
 The king of Siam has been on the rampage recently, and. though most of the newspapers maintain a discreet silence concerning his activities, one at least IFG2EGQ QlG l8LGSL aCulGWGmGnL LII the guarded manner above quoted.
 Luang RahsnaFt, a Sta mese noble,' has a beautiful wife. He objected to her taking part In a gala performance tiyities. On one occasion he made her leave the Royal theatre during a re- hearsal
 not only deprived him of his title, but ordered thar he receive thirty blows with raftau and sent to pri-
 N~-a pelled to go on attending rehearsa' &.
 The European residents showed their 7fsapprovaI of the kings acts by stay ing away from the performance in
 London. January. 1O-In the game of tit for tat between England and Ger many, in which Germany made the latest move by sentencing Max Schulz an alleged British spy. to seven years of hard labor in a 'zuchthaus' Eng will have her opportunity in the case of Heinrich Crosse, a captain of the for trial at Portsmouth on a charge identical with that on which Schulz WIS punished.
 forciblv illustrated in these frequent ly recurring espionage trials. As re- centlv as two years ago spying was regarded as a trivial offense The se- crSt service departments of both coun- tries knew who the spies were and arrested them only when their activi- ties became rnischievous. The pun- isilrnents were light.
 About a year ago, however. CaUt. Trench and It. Brandon. of the Bri- tfEh army, were found guilty of spy to four years each. Tt would be hurr- ful to Germany if the military secrets discovered by the two officers were wears from the date of their arrest Then it came Eng1andss turn. A Ger man ober-lieutena nt, going under the name of Max Schulz but unrelated to the Britisher of the same name now imprisoned In Germany. was sentenc- ed to 14 months solitary confinement for spying out naval secrets at Ports mouth Public opinion in Germany denounced the punishment as unduly severe.
 ing the British Max Schulz. who is a shin hroker of Hull and Southampton, has caused even a greater uproar in this country. The zuchthaus sentence is---ent known in the German code. Ordinarily, only the most depraved criminals are imprisoned there.
 London. Jan. 1o-Winston Churchill first lord of the admiralty. has issued p-i-'ete instructions to heads of de- partments in the navy henceforth to employ commonsense in special eases, resa rdless of redtape regulations
 When the liner Delhi was on the FOCkG orr the 1IOLONGdH COa6L- WlNu the kings sister and other royalties on board the admiralty wireless sta- lion at Gibraltar received a messaee narrating the shipwreck which 1t re- fused to transmit on the ground that I've do not take commercial Does- ss~ess' The result was that no Bri- fish ships were dispatched to the res- cue until long after the arrival of the French cruiser Friant whose captain had no scruples about helping 'conn- mercial snips."
 When Gibraltar beard that royalties were aboard the Delhi, there was something like a panic
 Vienna. Jan. 10-Still another mem Der of the house of Hapshurg has given up court life. The announce ment that Emperor Franz Josef has granted the Archduke Henry indefi- mite leave of absence and has stop- ped his pay means that the archdulke has kicked over the royal traces. Henry has made a name for himself as a pafnter and etcher. More than a wear ago he left the garrison at