19 JANUARY 1907, page 6

The New Year In Russia.

,T AST Sunday saw the close of the most troubled and _LJ fate-frau g ht year in the history m ost Russia. It h a s been a year of poverty, of famine, of wild excesses of crime......

A German Missionary Of Empire.

W E confess to a considerable interest in Herr Dernburg, the German Colonial Director. A successful man of business, he has been suddenly set at the head of an enterprise which......