The Wording Of The Edict Is, We Are Told, Dignified

and con- ciliatory. It declares that the internal disturbance should not be quelled by military force, and makes reference, though without name, to England as "a friendly Power......

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anii case.......

The Case Of The Manouba ' Was More Serious. The

French Government stated that the twenty-nine Turks were members of the Red Crescent Society, who had received the express authority of the French Foreign Office to proceed to......

Yews Of The Week. .

T HE abdication of the throne of China by the Manchu dynasty, which, when we wrote last Friday, was hourly expected, has not taken place. At the last moment evil influences,......

The British Visit To Russia Is Evidently Proving A Great

success. The Times correspondent at St. Petersburg, tele- graphing in Friday's paper, states that from the moment of crossing the frontier the British deputation found itself in......

A Dangerous Tension Has Existed During The Week Between...

and Italy owing to the seizure by Italian destroyers of two French mail steamers. The 'Carthage' was seized on the 16th on the ground that she was transporting to Tunis an......

No. 4,361.) Week Ending Saturday. January 27, 1912,

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The Situation Is A Most Curious One, And Though The

issues are so tremendous and fraught with such dire importance to so large a portion of the human race, it is not without its comic side. Unfortunately, however, there is not......

We Sincerely Trust That This Hopeful View Of The Situation

will prove correct, but it remains to be seen whether the revolutionary party will agree to the postponement of the abdication and, again, whether Tieh-liang's influence may not......

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