Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-09
WHAT INTERESTS OTHER NATIONS

1 to that end are expected when the lords
 receive the bills the second time. The 1 younger peers realize that the obstruc- | tive tactics of the irreconcilagles mere l ly delay, but will not defeat enactment. | Other vital national questions press for consideration, but are Sidetracked and 1 valuable time wasted in partisan tac- 1 tics. These considerations are gaining l supporters and are likely to result in
 an adjustment satisfactory to the ma jority of the tory opposition before the ] year ends. Three years ago tenta- 1 tive adjustment of the home rule is- mittee. of the two leading parties, but was overtnrown by the tory last ditchers,'' prompted by the hope of win ming at the general election. The l chasm between the two houses is ne1th- CT wide nor deep and may be quickly bridged, especially when delay avails nothing.
 Famous Land Grabbers.
 The largest and most unserupulous dynastic trust in the world today is celebrating the three hundredth anni- verSaTy of its start in the ruling buSi- ness. When young Michael Romanoff. founder of the present dynasty, was elected czar back in 1613- the Russia of that day was a mighty small speck on the map. But Michael and his nine teen successors developed an unsuitable appetite for land, steadily increasing their real estate holdings until now the ROmanoff household controls 3,666, 900 square miles of territory, or one sixth Ilof the globe, with a population of ap- prOximately 160, ,000 900. Yet the Ro- manoff appetite is not satisfied. North ern Persia is as good as assimilated, Finland is On-the times of the fork, and northern Mongolia is being pre- pared for a feast. For centuries the dynastic steam roller moved with re- sistless force over rebellious tribes, op- posing peoples, and weaker nations, ,1-lvs r@F- ', crushed human lives from the Baltic to Bearing sea Checkmated in some df- rectfons the RomanoffS bided their tima and eventually won. Japan drove back and checked the Slav advance to the China sea- ten years ago, but who will say the halt is permanent? If bulk continues greatness, Russia is the won der of the world. Yet the Romanoffs are not joyously happy. Great Peters dream of land fronting on an 1celess sea is unrealized and Czar Nicholas waking and sleeping hours are haunt ed by revolutionists and hounds.
 A Palace Of Craft
 The modern Palace of Justice in Rome, just completed at acost of $12;- 0O0,000 and worth about $4,000,000 is developing an orgy of graft rivalling the Pennsylvania state capitol scandal A discarded mistress of one of the con tractors, in a spirit of revenge, placed in the hands of the authorities, bundles of receipts for money paid sto the of hcials who had control of the job and those in position. to know and exacted as the price of silence. A parliament ary commission is digging into the pu- trid mess. Several arrests of promf- inent government officials have been made, and not a. few have fled to cooler clima tes. A clamorous trial of the grafters is likely to be efsffret con- spicuous public event in Rome's Pal ace of Graft.
 
 The Fall of Janins.
 Ancient historic associations revived. national ambitions checked for centu- ries realized and recompense for the military disasters of 1897 are the cove ted prizes Greece secured through the fall of Janina. The capture of the city was special cause for rejoicing, more so than the capture of Saloniki Though not q poDulous city, it is an important trading and distributing center for all the mountainous terri tory in southern Albania. Control of the city restores an acient province to its racial founders and gives to Greece all the territory south of Alban- ia fronting on the Ionian> sea.