5 JANUARY 1895, page 9

News Of The Week.

T HERE is hope—as yet it is only hope—of much better days in Russia. The new Emperor, Nicholas II., has appointed Count Shouvaloff, an experienced diplomatist with Western......

There Is No News From The Far East This Week,

except that the Japanese armies have many sick from the cold.......

France Has Been Amazed By The Sudden And Peremptory Recall

of M. de Lanessan, Governor-General of French Indo- China, and the petted representative of the forward Colonial party. He is a man of remarkable energy, and has openly stated......

The Charges Of Blackmailing Daily Brought Against The...

said to include half the newspapers of Paris, and a new scandal has just been opened up, the drift of which is that one railway, and therefore probably more, has been buying......

We Do Not Quite Like The News From Wuzeeristan. Things

are too smooth. Sir W. Lockhart has penetrated to the seats of the Mahsud clans, who have refused to fight him, but have in no way submitted. Though they were defeated, as a......

The Heavy Hand Of M. Stambouloff Has Been Lifted From

Bulgaria, and almost everybody is wriggling and swearing aloud. His enemies have persuaded Prince Ferdinand to allow of his arrest on a charge of murder, for which, as yet,......

*** The Editors Cannot Undertake To Return Manuscript, In...

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