12 JANUARY 1907, page 2

Constantinople Will Then Be Within Five Days' Journey Of...

The strategic advantages of this will be so great that the Turkish Government, in spite of its lose in the past, is eager to continue the work of construction. The difficulty is......

The Matin Has Published An Interview With Mr. Stead On

the subject of the Hague Conference to be held this spring. Before leaving London, so Mr. Stead informed the represen- tative of the Malin, he had held conversations with Sir H.......

The Times Of Wednesday Published A Summary Of The Japanese

Budget for the new fiscal year, which is to be presented to the Diet on January 21st. There is a consider- able increase in the figures, mainly owing to the closing of the......

The Times Of Friday Contains A Most Curious And Interesting

letter from its Cairo correspondent describing a tribal war recently waged in Syria between Arabs and the Druses. It appears that in the autumn of 1905 a body of Druse raiders......

Two Hundred And Fifty Bedouin Were Picked Up Dead On

the field, and others fell during the pursuit, though the Druses only lost two killed. As the Times correspondent remarks, ".we have thus a spectacle of a pitched battle between......

The Question Whether The French Bishops Were Overruled By...

Pope or not is still being vigorously discussed in the French and Italian Press. The Rome correspondent of the Times recently transmitted an official communiqmi clearing the......

The Correspondent Of The Times In Paris Telegraphs To...

paper some interesting comments upon the way in which the action of the Vatican is emphasising the difference between the Liberal French Catholics and the Ultramontanes,, the......