, 1912-02-07

The Commission resumes discussion of the
main questions to-day.
The German Delegates have not yet re-
ceiVed the Instructions requested from their
Government.
1t is announced hat Liverpool will build
docks of eleven hundred feet, costing three
million pounds.
The Foreign Office fenies the report of the
occupation and fortifc9tion of Fauning Is
land IN the Pacific as q naval base in antici-
patton of the opening Of the Panama Canal.
Ihe Y VI. &. A fund has reached seventy
thousand pounds. Mr. Pierpont Morgan has
agreed to give the final ten thousand to
complete one hundred thousand pounds, and
strenuous efforts are beiug made to secure
the lacking twenty thousand.
The French Commission has allowed twen-
ty seven Of the Manouba arrests to proceed
to Tunis. One is too sick to move and one
is unable to establish his membership of the
Red Crescent.
The proclamation of Martial Law has calm
ed lisbon, and those arrested will be tried in
patches of twenty five.
1t is reported that King Manuel will mar
ry a daughter of Dom Miguel. Duke of Bra
ganza, and his son Pom Miguel will advance
twenty million dollars from the fortune of
his wife, who was Miss Stewart Of New York,
for a supreme effort to reestqblish the mon
archy.
An effort is also to be made to establish
o republic, embracing Spain and Portugal in
a single nation. A Madrid despatch says
Spain is preparing to intervene, and the
cruiser Catalina has been ordered from
Gibraltar to Vigo.
Advices from Picking state that the abdi-
cation agreement includes thirteen articles,
and renounces all political power, other arti-
alas ,nlato n, ~, imf ,r,,n1 o,oro ni1ot ,oo ~ tlo
Imperial clan and treatment of Manchus.
The Cabinet believes the reyolutionaries will
accept
Yuan Shi Kai's soldiers circulate leaflets de-
claring that if Yuan is harmed the whole
generation Of those responsible will be eXter-
minated,
At Mukden imperalists have assassinnted
thirty seven revoIutionaries and looted
their property. Sun Vat Sen has raised a
loan Of ten million taels upon security of
the China Merchants Company's fleet The
Company assented upon the revolutionaries
promise Of special privileges.
Halifax, MS, Feb. Bird Til Acadia Su-
gar Refinery has been burned. The loss
exceeds one million dollars.
New York, Feb. 3rd-The temperature of
New York during January has averaged
twenty three and three tenths, the second
coolest january recorded, temperatures were
both lower and higher on single days than
in 1898.
The Hamburg American Liner Allegheny
for the West Indies, collided with the British
steamer PomNron off the Virginia Capes.
The Allegheny is returning to New York.
Copenhagen, Feb. 3rd-The death is an
nounced of Etatsraad Just.
London, Febry 5th-Tho Medina with
Their Maiesties on board arrived at Spithead
yesterday, fourteen hour, before expected,
amid one Of the worst snowstorms of the Sc
verest winter for seventeen years. The fleet
saluted, but the batteries ashore, being unp1e-
pared, were unable to do so. Their Males
ties remained on board until this morning,
and the Royal children slept at Admiralty
House, Portsmouth. There was no commu-
n~ication with tire shore except q message 'all
weIl'.
The sunken submarine A 3 was not fitted
with the latest appliances for raising in case
Of disaster, therefore the s~alvagers are embar-
rNssed, the wreck lying so that hawsers are
unadjustable, One htw5er broke, sweeping sew
Ell men from a lighter; they were stunned
and narrowly escaped. Divers report the