The Times published a letter by Sir Frank A. Swettenham, the Governor of the Straits Settlements, in defence of the Chinese. He states that the Australians, having got rid of ...
Article : 87 wordsThe estimates of expenditure on the British army for the ensuing year were laid before the House of Commons last evening by Mr Arnold-Forster, Secretary of State ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Standard yesterday mentioned that a story was current in St. Petersburg that a dozen Japanese soldiers disguised aa Tartars had been arrested at the point where the ...
Article : 203 wordsSir Frank A. Swettenham has returned to the subject in the same journal. In another letter to The Times, replying to Mr. Henry Copeland, he writes as follows:—"My ...
Article : 97 wordsA speech delivered in the Reichstag yesterday, by Herr Bebel, the leader of the Social Democratic party, has created quite a sensation. ...
Article : 113 wordsRussia is pushing on her naval construction programme with all speed. The St. Petersburg and Baltic shipyards are now rapidly finishing six battleships and two ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has assured Mr Henry Copeland, Acting-General for New South Wales, that the Government views the ...
Article : 111 wordsThe death is announced, in his 72nd year, of Field Marshal Count von Waldersee, the distinguished German soldier who commanded the allied forces in China in 1901. ...
Article : 234 wordsAdmiral Alexieff has telegraphed to St. Petersburg that the Russian cruisers and torpedo-boat destroyers have conducted reconnaissances within a radius of 60 miles of Port ...
Article : 97 wordsA dreadful accident occurred in New York yesterday in connection with a 20-story building in course of erection. The boiler of the steam crane exploded ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Nonconformist Churches at Johannesburg have adopted a resolution strongly de precating the agitation in England against the importation of Chinese labour for the ...
Article : 80 wordsAmongst military men, even in Russia, Admiral Alexieff's conduct of operations in the Far East has been sharply criticised. General Dragomiroff, a former military ...
Article : 562 wordsThe workers in the bituminous coal mines in the United States, who have refused to assent to a reduction of 5½ per cent. in their wages, and threaten to go on strike, are ...
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Advertising : 160 wordsViscount Milner, His Majesty's High Commissions for South Africa, has explained how the Transvaal development loan of £30,000,000 has been spent. He states that ...
Article : 101 wordsA remarkable case is reported from Lemberg, in Galicia. A widow named Josephine Dittick shot dead her younger sister, who was suffering from an incurable complaint. Her ...
Article : 75 wordsA force of 300 troops was recently despatched from Asaba, on the Niger, in Southern Nigeria, to suppress a rising organised by a secret society called the ...
Article : 97 wordsIn reopening the Dreyfus case before the Criminal Chamber of Cassation, M. Vandain, the French public prosecutor, addressing the Court, strongly affirmed that Captain Dreyfus ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Combes Ministry in France is rigorously pursuing its policy of suppressing the different religious orders. The Chamber of Deputies on 5th inst., at the instance of the ...
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