Berlin, July 8.
The Tsar is still cruising with his family in the Gulf of Finland. He may take trip from there to Stockholm to visit King Gustaf of Sweden.
Admiral Thomson, the French Minister of the Navy, has declared in the Senate, that the fleet in the Far East is necessary for the defence of the French Colonies.
The Russian Council of National Defence has discussed the question of establishing dockyards and building men-of-war in the Far East.
The superiority of the Zeppelin airship, which has visited, from the Lake] of Constance, Bale, Lucerne, and Bern, is acknowledged in Paris.
The Brazilian Legation in Ps denies the rumours that English doc!
conveyed to Japan men-of-war ordered by Brazil and in the course of construction, July 4.
General d'Amade has been censured by his Government on account of his advance upon Azemur; the troops are'
ing back.
The Eulenburg trial will be finished by the end of July. The pleadings ill be public.
The King and the Queen of Wurtemberg have made an accent in Count Zeppelin's air-ship.
July 5.
Prince Otto von Salm-Horstmar has declined re-election as President of the Deutscher Flottenverein (German Navy Consequently Admiral yon assume the presidency.
situation on the West coast of Sumatra has improved.
The Swedish Government has taken steps to investigate the whereabouts of Sven Hedin, of whom nothin has been heard for half a year.
Eight hundred Japanese immigrants have arrived in Brazil, where they have bean received in a friendly manner.
By an explosion in a mine at Insowska (2), Russia, 228 workmen have been killed. duly 6.
An immense fire has broken out in the petroleum mines of Galicia (Austria).
The Tsar insists, in spite of the rejection of the 1 bill by the Dunra, that the building of four battleships shall be began at once.
The Rome Press states that Count Monts de Mazin, the German Ambassador, who has been accredited to Rome since January, 1908, is about to resign office, since he desires to retire into Preparations are being made in San Francisco for the sailing of the Atlantic Fleet for the Philippines, Admiral Sperry will leave a permanent Pacific squadron at Manila and will return with the rest of the ships to America.
The Liberal Members of Parliament are apprehensive that-the Government will come, next year, with very large new demands for the fleet.
It is announced thet Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, the Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet, will retire' from active service after the naval mano-ayres and will enter Parliament. which left Shanghai on June 18 vid Siberia, was delivered in Berlin during the forenoon of July 6.
July 7.
Baron Wangenheim, the German Minister to Mexico, will take charge of the German Legation in Tangier.
With reference to a remark of Herr}
Maximilian Harden, which has already been repudiated otherwise, the Nord-deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" states that the German Emperor has never been present at spiritualistic néances.
The Duma has granted four and quarter million Ronbles, which are needed at once forthe Baltic Sea Fleet.
The Tear will go on the 26th instant! to Reval, where President Falliéres will arrive the next day.
The revolutionist chiefs on the West Const of Sumatra have surrendered.
The country is now quieter.
Fieldmarshal Baron Lee is dead, aged eighty years.
July 8. The discussion about the Azemmur incident has been opened in the French Chamber by the deputy, M. Brisson, before the incident itself has been closed.
M. Pichon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, stated that no French troops had taken part in the advance.
It is rumoured that the Russi Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Iswolski will mest King Edward and President Falliéres of France in Carlsbad in September next, 'A German Mercedes automobile has won the Grand Prix in the Dieppe Automobile Race. Amongst the seven first autos passing ping post there were six of German make, coming from the Mercedes, Benz and Opel works, Count Zeppelin celebrated yesterday his seventy-seventh birthday. Chancellor Prince Bilow has sent congratulatory telegram to the famous inventor.
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