17 FEBRUARY 1906, page 2

Throughout The Week The Conference At Algeciras Has Been...

with the discussion of the details of the new Customs tariff and the' regulations for the prevention of contraband trade. But meanwhile a growing excitement has been evident in......

The New German Financial Reforms Seem To Be Making Slow

progress. A little while ago the proposal to increase the Excise upon beer and tobacco was rejected, and last week the Budget Committee of the Reichstag rejected or amended......

The Times And Morning Post On Monday Published Im- Portant

articles from correspondents on the new nationalism which is growing up in China. The gist of their argument is that the zeal for reform which China is professing is purely a......

The Hepburn Railway Rates Bill Has Been Passed By The

American House of Representatives by 346 votes to 7, and nom; enters upon its stormy career in that old home of vested interests, the Senate. The purpose of the Bill, it will be......

- The Coalition In Hungary Seem To Be Divided In

opinion as to the nature of the reply to the King, for which Count Albert Apponyi was mainly responsible. In an article published on Friday week M. Kossuth declared that the......

In The Event, Which Is Far From Improbable, Of The

Confer- ence coming to no satisfactory decision, it is a little hard to tell what may ensue. Germany argues that the basis of the Madrid Convention of 1830 will be restored; but......

A Most Formidable Indictment Of The Administrative...

Congo Free State has just been published in the shape of a volume by M. Felicien Cattier, a Professor at the University of Brussels, and a well-known authority on Colonial......