26 AUGUST 1899, page 2

Russia And Germany Claim Most Things That Britain Does Not,

and they have now a dispute on hand as to the owner- ship of the North Pole. Herr Theodor Lerner, a German, has established a commercial settlement on Bear Island, near......

On Wednesday The Colonial Office Issued The...

the status of the South African Republic which has passed between our Government and the Transvaal. We have dealt elsewhere with the very striking statement of Sir Robert......

It Is Stated That "major" Ross, A Surgeon We Presume,

has discovered at Sierra Leone the mosquito whose bite conveys malaria to the human subject. He has forwarded parti- culars of his discovery to the Liverpool School of Tropical......

The " Fort" In The Rue Chabrol Is Still Held.

M. Guerin and his followers, now reduced to ten, still defy arrest, and the Ministry of the Interior for some inexplicable reason still refuse to employ force. The street is......

A Kind Of Ill-fortnne Pursues The Army Of France. An

ex- pedition, composed of five officers, twenty Spahis, and about a thousand followers, six hundred of them armed, was recently dispatched to explore the territory, chiefly......

One Result Of This Weakness Has Been Serious Rioting In

Paris. The Anarchists do not like to see active " demonstra- tions " by anybody but themselves, and on Sunday they broke out to put an end, they said, "to the monopoly of the......

William Ii., As Prussian King, Sustained On Wednesday A...

defeat. He is extremely desirous of constructing a canal between the Elbe and the Rhine, which will, he thinks, greatly develop trade, and as the Conservative majority in......

On Thursday Some Of The Moat Striking And Important Evidence

was concerned with the alleged confession by Dreyfus. The testimony with. regard to that confession having taken place shrank to nothing, and Captain Dreyfus in a short speech......