12 OCTOBER 1907, page 1

News Of The Week.

T HE First Committee of the Hague Conference discussed the project of obligatory arbitration in a full-dress debate on Saturday last. After a great oratorical display, the......

M. Clemenceau Delivered An Extremely Strong Speech...

unveiling a statue of M. Rene Goblet at Amiens on Monday. In praising M. Goblet, who did so much both as Minister and journalist for the consolida- tion of the existing regime,......

Further Important Changes In The German Foreign Office...

Service were announced at Berlin on Monday evening. Herr von Tschirschky, Foreign Secretary since January, 1906, becomes Ambassador at Vienna, and is replaced by Herr von Sabi],......

The Crisis In The Dual Empire Has Been Happily Tided

over, and the Austrian and Hungarian Prime Ministers signed the Customs and Commercial Treaty at Budapest on Tuesday. The precise terms on which Austria and Hungary have agreed......

At The Plenary Sitting On Wednesday The Mines Conven- Tion

was adopted, but in a form which—largely owing to German opposition—abandons the attempt to diminish the dangers to neutral commerce arising out of the indiscriminate use of......

The Times Correspondent At Vienna Reports That An...

communication as to the nature of the recent conferences between M. Isvolsky and Baron von Aehrenthal was published in the Politische Correspondenz on Monday. The instructions......

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