21 APRIL 1900, page 2

A Rather Formidable Strike Has Disturbed The Equanimity...

York. Italian labourers now do most of the rough labour of the city, and a thousand of them have recently been employed to construct a reservoir dam a few miles distant. They......

The Nov Lo, K Ileeald In Its Paris Edition P

ublishes a tele- gram announcing that the American House of Representatives has resolved that a proposal be submitted to the States of the Union for revising the system of......

The Czar Has Made An Extraordinary Gift, Ostensibly To...

Loubet, really to the French nation. It is a map of France, 3 ft. square, formed of delicate varieties of polished Siberian jasper, each department being shown in a different......

A Sharp Dispute Has Broken Out Between The American...

and the Sultan. That Government demanded compensation for injuries suffered by American missionaries during the anti-Armenian riots, and the Sultan promieei to pay some modest......

The Russian Emperor And Empress Are Visiting Moscow, In...

it is said, to pray at the oldest Russian shrines that the next child born to them may be a boy, and the succession thus continued to their own descendants. The people, how-......

On Wednesday The War Office Published The Official Report Of

the operations at Spion Kop, with which we have dealt at length elsewhere. Even making allowance for the terrible difficulty of the art of war, Spion Kop was a muddled business......

The Queen Has Decided Not To Visit Belfast. In Intimating

her decision she expresses her great regret that she is compelled to abandon the idea of making any journeys during her stay in Ireland, and in view of her age and the efforts......