The Admiral'y minute also regrets that Admiral Sir William May selected an unsafe berth for H. M.S Assistance.
The newspapers, while regretting the punishment of meritorious officers, wnanimously commend the decisions of the Admiralty in view of the supreme necessity of ripbolding the discipline and efficiency of the: Navy.—Reuter, 5th December, Sixteen thousand Cossacks are occupy: ing St. Peterburg. Informat: received only by courier though Eydtkubnen, 6th December.
The stoppage of communications can stupendous financial I The population of Kieff Count Witto's prestige is decline is being received from the frontier only.
Washington, 6th December.
The fifth.
Congress has Mr.
Cannon has boon re-elected Speakor of the Hous of Roprosontatives.
As a result of the resumption of the massacre of Jows at Odessa, thousands of corpses uro decomposing by the rond-if Hochi."
London, 7th December, An electrical spinying mill hes beea opened at Pendlebury, Lane shire,—
'The following Washington telegram hi been received by the Tokio Foreign D partment:—Mr. Samuel Gomps sident of the Labourers' Uni has troduesd into Congress a Bill for he exclusion of Japanese labourers.. [tis believed that it may pass the House of ives, but. will be thrown out H. M. S. Tran and Cadmus were Hankow on the 11th instant, and H. Snipe wes at Wuhu on thi The Rev. H. B. Hulbert, ex-Editor of the Corea Review,". claiming to hold credentials as an envoy of the Emperor of Corea, presented to President Roosevelt an alleged Cablegram from the Emperor, declaring that the Japanese Agreement should not: be recognised as valid, because it. was "signed under stress, and he called attention to the fact that the President had heard only from the Japanese before approving their protectorate; and he asked for American intervention. The President, Fowever, will not modify his policy.—Our own correspondent.
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