London, 1st November.
The Balgarians threaten to shoot any Servians crossing the frontier, The Servians have been ordered to retaliate.
GRWECE CONCILIATORY, London, 2ud November, 10 Greek Government has sent conciliatory note to Great. Powers, dowanding an extension of frontier in Epirus, as adjudged by the Treaty of Beni We have much pleasure in stating that another step hws been advanced by the native authorities towards supplying the Shanghai city with clean water. The Tao Nai has granted perm to Iny the water pipes in the city, and has appointed Mr. 0. Fock to negotiate with the Shanghai Waterworks? Company to this end, We yuen went Purpone of he Waterw gratulated on thy induce the Chin Company niccexs of th 0 the city, and this atop of real prove We have only now to hope that th natives in the city will be pure water offered to the of the Gordon Boyr' Home have notified the public that the ly poor and un. has never boon
and is not likely to, rine, and that 7 an would disqualfty him for ho Army or Navy, or for a career in the colonies or elsewhere, which would require active bodily exertion. Major OH, h pressing the object of th clearly understood it wi al_mpport, not only from jo at home, but from all those who in various parts of the world have learnt to regard the general Gurdon as one of the nol been a stepping stone to the Corean mainland; and even had Rassia gone no farther, her holding it would have been a menace to China and Japan. Pheso considerations are fully present to the minds of the Chinese Government, who avo at least as much interested in the ownership of Port Hamilton as the Japanese Cabinet are, and no doubt went far to induce them to acquiesce in the British occupation. We cannot doubt that the Japanese Government saw the matter in the same light, and that the presence of the English in Port Hamilton is felt by it to be some security for the independence of Corea. Nothing is more improbable than that England will seek to acquire any influence over the Corean Government.
Her representative st Seoul will no The Government intends to inorense Navy within two years by nine ire Inde.
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