The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-08-30 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE FOREIGN ENLISTMENT ACT.  The proclamation of neutrality published a fortnight ago has been followed by the arrest of two vessels supposed to be intended as war vessels for the Chinese or Japanese Governments. Only one prosecution has (the Law Journal says) taken place under the Foreign Enlistment Act, 1870—Regina v. Sandoval—a ease which arose out of some operations by persons interested in fomenting a Venezuelan revolution. That case is of legal interest as deciding (1) that civil war abroad is included within the scope of the Act; (2) that an expedition is illegal within the Act, although munitions of war are not shipped in British waters; if the preparation of the vessel in England is clearly part of an intended enterprise of a warlike character. And it is well that the existence and efficacy of the statute should be demonstrated to enterprising English manufacturers and shipbuilders. The action of the Government has, of course, led to some indignation among the shipowners concerned in importing rice and ooa into China or in selling merchant vessels, and to some doubt as to the limits of executive power in such cases. This indignation is not lessened by the telegrams that the 'United States, whose sufferings • from the Alabama led to the Act, has apparently done nothing to stop the manufacture and sale of munitions of war both to China and Japan. A further question will probably arise—namely, whether Chinese or Japanese public vessels commissioned but not completed, and in British ports at the outbreak of the war, can be stopped.  A piece of news which has or should have, a Tim has just died Surgeon-Major J. F. McCrea, melancholy interest for Englishmen Timm ha comes from V.C., whose heroism was much talked of 14 years Vienna. It is said that Fridolin de Holbein, the last ago. After acting as civil Boron to her majesty's representative of the family of the great painter,has forces at the Cape, he joined the Cape Mounted been sent to prison in Austria as a beggar and a Yeomanry, and served through the Basuto war. It vagabond. Holbein is 811 years of age, and is by was at the battle of Tweefontein in 1881 that he profession a photographer's assistant. I specially distinguiehed, himself, and earned the I • young man named Hsyns, employed as a porter Victoria Cross. Thieburghers had been forced to at a business house in Oxford-street, was on Mon- retire with heavy losses, when McCrea,with Captain day morning cleaning some windows on the second Buxton, proceeded under heavy fire to the help of a atorey at the back of the house, when he lost his wounded burgher some distance away, and though balance and fell into the yard below, striking with shot in the chest, McCrea continued to render help great force on the stones. He was at once taken to the wounded. He bad subsequently to dress his to the Middlesex Hospital, but he died before own wound, as there was no other medical officer arriving there. I On the fiedd. Tbe Catholic onessraves an account of the cure a lemma mime is reported trom Bosonewm, 'at Lourdes of Miss Aster, of Edinburgh, a Austria. Among the more prominent inhabitants sufferer for 10 years from ulcer in the stomach, was a wealthy Jewish farmer named Salunui Dr. 01,160/ WM sonsecrated Boman Catholic Bishop Bibrovic, who appears to have excited the enmity of of Clogber at Monaghan on Sunday. The officiating a certain portion of the community. During Friday prelate was Cardinal Logue, assisted by the Bishop night his house was broken into, and M. Bibrovic, of Dromore and 180 priests. as well as all the members of his family, consisting As an outcome of the inquiries recently made by of eight persons, were murdered. The crime WU Lewd Femur's Comtism, tin order was received at discover at an early hour on Saturday morning. Chatham Dockyard directing that in future the On a search being made it was found that the whole seamen's allotments shall Int paid at local poet.. place had been ransacked and set on fire. The offices after October next. I murderers succeeded in getting away without leaving any trace of their identitl.