2 MAY 1903, page 1

Friday's News As To The Situation In The Balkans Is

most serious. On Wednesday night the Imperial Ottoman Bank and the Bank of Mytilene, in Salonica, were blown up with dynamite, and an attempt was also made to blow up a train......

If Lord Lansdowne Has Not Been Misinformed, Which, Con....

the wording of his answer, does not seem likely, a very considerable " mist of error " must have settled over Pekin. The next few days will, we suppose, show what has really......

News Of The Week.

T HE King left Rome on Thursday on his way to Paris. His reception in Rome has not only been magnificent, but marked by a quite unusual cordiality, the different public bodies......

The King Paid His Promised Visit To The Pope At

the Vatican on the afternoon of Wednesday. He was received, of course, with all possible ceremony, and is said to have expressed himself as greatly struck with the magnificence......

During The Past Week The Air Has Been Full Of

rumours as to Russian action in Manchuria, it being alleged that the Russians were pressing the Chinese to agree to terms which would have turned Manchuria into a Russian......

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