, 1912-01-17

OF the entante, compelled TO support her.
Sir Edward is being hotly attacked and
defended A national, rather than q parts IN,
view of this is a speech delivered at Glas-
gov University by Lord Rosebery. eve
are he said 'now embraced in a continental
system, which may at any moment bring us
into contact with armies numbering millions.
Our own forces are hardly to be counted in
such a war, but the nation approves the
policy, and, therefore, must prepare to sup
port it suitably by greater sacrifices. We
have entered into obligations, the liabilities
of which we are ignorant, but which are no
less binding because they may possibly lead
into the greatest Armageddon since Napo-
leon"
The fact that the Standard and the Daily
Telegraph approve Lord Rosebery's decla-
ration is sufficiently indicative of the critics
bitter demand for reorganization of the Fo-
reign Office.
Upon the eve of the German elections on
Friday, the Kaiser said he hoped the result
would be such a Reichstag, as a birthday
y esent for him, that would be able to
strengthen the army and navy, so that his
efforts would not have been in vain.
Incomplete results otherwise show an ag-
gregate Socialist vote of four million four
hundred thousand, a gain of twenty-four
seats at the expense of the Radicals and
Liberals. One hundred AND seventy nine re-
ballots are necessary, preventing an exact
statement; but the Conservative and Clerical
Bloc is shaken, and would be overthrow
except for the Socialist gains being from other
opposition factions, rather than from the
Government supporters. Although the So
ciHlists are stronger than before the disso-
luton, they lemain below the previous max
imum of 1903.
FFohnr0o oluSnoo o&oEo A1nk $1,000 M.
Shuster's departure. NJ. Maynard summary
took possession, declining to give u receipt
to Mr.. CIRns, who is responsible under his
quittance to Mr.. Shuster, the latter's four
teen American assistants are unwilling to
serve under Nj. Maynard, whom the Persians
would r. iect it the Russians allowed. NJ Mpy-
nard's identification of Russia damages British
prestige. The London Times hopes for a
suitable successor, and deprecates a British
expedition to Southern Persia, as encourage
ing a Russian advance in the Northern
sphere.
A Peking despatch states that the Manchu
Princes have resolved that it is Heavens
viii the Emperor should abdicate and re-
move to Jehol. Yuan has declared he must
resign the Premiership.
The Governor of Bahia, having refused to
execute a writ of Habeas Corpus of the Bra
lillian Federal Court in a case of Opposition
deputies, the Federal warships shelled Gov
ernment House and other buildings, killing
twenty persons, injuring one hundred and
causing damages estimated at five thousand
cantos, or three hundred thousand sterling.
The Governor and local Ministers have re-
signed, the police have been disarmed, and
citizens are preserving order.
London, Jan. 16 h--The Campaign in u
ster against Home Rule is proceeding vigor-
ously to it's climax in April, when Mr.. Bonar
Law will address IL Unionist meeting at Bel
fast. Mr.. John Redmond will address a
meeting on February eighth with Mr..
Churchill. There are rumours that Mr.. Red
mond aud Mr.. A~quith disagree regarding
the control by the irish Parliament of Gus
TOMS and excise, but all details are being
closely guarded until the bills introduction
IN March. The Ga binet will not meet until
just before Parliament opens. Ministers ale
no. widely scattered, recuperatiug for a con-
troversial session, in which all measures
must be sent to the Lords a month before
the adjournment in order to come within the
Veto Bill.
The cotton employers are considering adj
V0nCInQ wages five Dor cent uDOn the am