24 AUGUST 1912, page 1

News Of The Week.

C HINA, rather than Turkey, has been the centre of atten- tion in foreign affairs during the week. A sharp controversy has broken out between the President of the Republic, Yuan......

On Friday Week, When K Poincare's Visit To Russia Came

to an end, an announcement was published which had been drawn up jointly by M. Poincare and M. Sazonoff, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs. They remarked that their......

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All The Academic Elements Of The South Are Behind This

party, whose inspiration is Sun Yat-sen, the chief spirit of the revolution which overthrew the Manchu dynasty and founded the Republic. The party has not been satisfied with......

Meanwhile What The Situation Gains In One Respect It Loses

in another. The fighting on the Montenegrin frontier con- tinues, and is much too confused for a summary. There are stories of atrocities by the Turkish regular troops in......

The Crisis In Turkey Remains Much As It Has Been

for two weeks, and so long as any poignant culmination is delayed we may hope that Turkey will add another to her extraordinarily long list of difficulties which have been......

But There Is Another Side To The Picture. The Times

of Friday published a letter from Dr. Morrison, its famous Peking correspondent, which makes one hesitate to accept any of the more catastrophic rumours. He says that China is......