Berlin, 9th August.
The prospect of peace is becoming more and more favourable. The negotiations will be carried on from the start with great thoroughness; all details will be ro-corded. Mr. von Witte is endeavouring to find a way out on the question, the indemnity, by a financial operation.
ing Alfonso of Spain intends to visit Berlin during the first part of November.
A number of German banks have grante' the Sultan of Morocco a private Youn of ten millions, the paying back of which will be fixed, with the knowledge of France, by the Morocco Conference.
Major Johannes has suppressed, wi out suffering any losses, the troubles in the Mutumbi Mountains, German East-Afcies. The chief leaders have been and French newspapers deny; peremp!
British naval meeting has any ant ian intentions.
The Russian Government has countermanded the mobilising of the reserves for the autumn Tnanceuvres.
There is a revolt of the natives in Portuguese West-Africa.
The well-known author Julius Stinde has died at Bei The following telegrams are from the "Kobe Herald Telegrams from Seoul say that the rains in north-eastern Cores exceed in violence anything recorded during the past thirty years. Floods are reported everywhere. The bridges which the Russians had thrown over the Tumen have been swept away, and military operations' must be suspended.
The Tokio Foreign Department has received the following telegram On July 25, General Linievitch sent the following telegram' to the Czar:—On receiving Russian papers we found that they produced false reports from foreign journals' to the effect that the Russian troops had been surrounded by the Japanese. We thus discovered that unfounded statements as to our position were in circulation even in our own country, I therefore now emphatically state that our troops have not been surrounded nor in any way placed in a critical situation. The enemy hias several times attempted to make a turning movement round our flanks, but on each occasion he has failed, Our forces and those of the enemy are face to face, but they are a considerable distance apart. 'The Japanese frequently attempt to approach nearer to us, but are always repulsed by our troops. 'The spirits of the latter are' so high that I can safely rely upon them. They are making preparations to meet every contingency.
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