12 OCTOBER 1895, page 17

One Wonders This Week Whether By Any Chance There Can

be any foundation for the strange rumour that the young Emperor of Russia is afflicted with melancholia. The story is most improbable, and rests upon nothing more solid than his......

It Is Said That The Sultan Has Two Motives For

his action. One, no doubt, is the belief that if all Armenians were dead or cowed, there would be no Armenian question ; the other is fear of the roused temper of the......

News Of The Week.

_N EWS that Antananarivo fell on September 27th, and that the Court had fled, was received in Paris on Tuesday from English sources, and created great excitement. It was......

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Colonel Shervinton, Who Formerly Commanded The Malagasy...

with an interviewer, strongly supports our contention that the Hovas are good fighting material. He himself has seen them attack and defeat French troops in the open, and in the......

The News Is Bad From Constantinople. It Is Difficult To

doubt that the savage repression which followed the ill- advised demonstration of the Armenians on September 30th was ordered by great men in the Palace, if not by the Sultan......

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