The Archive · 1906

Order of the Red Eagle

Tu consequence of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius Boscotrecise, on the south slope of the volcano, has been destroyed, 9th April, On the occasion of the closing of the Algeciras Conference the brilliants to the Order of the Red Eagle wore conferred upon the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, von Tachirschky and the Real Privy Councillor von Holstein.

The whole of the now Russian loan amounts to 2} milliards of Fraocs, for xbieb it la reported 54 per cent' in-torest_ must be paid. Two milliards will be offered for subscrip Pari and London on other 750 millions are to be reserve: to be exchanged for treasury bonds alrendy iaszed.

The emption of Vesuvius is growing more and more terrible. The observ: tory, the Vesuvius railway. and many illagoa have already boon destroyed. The lava stroam is advancing towans Pompeii, Torre-Annunziata and Torre del Greco at the sea const and Terzigno the eastern slope of the volcano.

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