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THE TIMES, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1910. IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. MR. ROOSEVELt. RECEPTION IN PARIS.

FBOM OCR OWN CORBESPONPENT. PARIS, Ami: THE KING AT PAU. THE FLIGHT OF THE DALAI LAMA. NARRATIVE OF A CHINESE SOLDIER. (FBOM OUB SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

I CALCUTTA, March 31. I have had the unique opportunity of meeting Mr. Roosevelt arrived at the Gare de l'Est by Sir James Reid and Dr. Veillon, who had rw; i in come specially from Paris, visited the various friends who had joined the train at Munich, On the return joiumeyhis Majesty stopped uuring tne journey mt. iiooseveit maae a at iourdes, wmcn ne naa visited Jrei statement to the snecial correspondent of the ago, and went over the Grotto of the Baili Matin, who telegraphed it from Strasburg, Church of the Rosary.

A great pro King Edward loft Pay at half past 10 this I morning and drove in a motor, attended by Colonel Ponsonby, the Hon. John Ward, and Sir James Reid, to Cauterets by the beautiful here a Chinese soldier who accompanied the road which affords a splendid view of the Dalai Lama from Si.ngan.fu to Lhasa one Luncheon was served at Cauterets at 1.30. the Chinese Governor of Shansi, and then and afterwards King Edward, accompanied followed him in his flight to India, having to the effect that he would grant and that anything purporting to represent interview with him would be false. The sa would apply in particular to any statement ciaimine to convcv bis v.cv European or American polities. Mr.

Roosevelt added that in any case he would not dream of expressing an opinion upon any question current politics, as his prolonged absence Africa had prevented him from studying such questions. He pave expression, however, to his lovo of France, and to his admiration for French literature. Among the books which were his constant companions on his recent expedition were the works of Moliere, Pascal's Fcnsees," La Chanson de Roland," Le Chevalier Dost and also Tartarin de Tarascon but, he remarked, he had killed his first lion. Mr. Roosevelt was met at the station by Mrs.

Roosevelt and Miss Roosevelt, who have been in Paris for some days. There were also present Mr. Bacon, the American Ambassador, M. Jusserand, the French Ambassador to Washington, Major Hellot, representing President M. Caron, president of the Paris Municipal Council, M.

MollarA Director of the Protocol, Baron Takalura, Hie Japanese Am bassador at Washington, M. Lepine, the Prefect of Police, and the president and members of the American Chamber of Coi Paris. There was a detachment of the Republi can Ouard on toot on the piation mounted detachment outside tho Mr. Roosevelt, who seemed in excellent health and spirits, was welcomed bv the Ai Ambassador, who presented the official per bonaces present at tho station, and then pro ceeded in a motor car with his distinguished t. i Francois Premier, where the ex President anc the members of his family will reside during their visit to Paris.

At 1 o'clock there were several French guests at luncheon, among them M. Jusserand, M. Anatole Leroy Beaulieu, M. Boutroux, General Brugere, the Marquis Las tevrie. Count de Rochambeau, Count Jacques de Pourtales, M.

Andre Michel, Baron de Coubertin, M. Andre Tardieu, and Baron d'Estournelles de Constant. Mr. Roosevelt is understood to have expressed his peculiar pleasure at tne prospect ot addressing an audience in the home of the ancient Vmversity of France at the Sorbonne on Saturday, and he was botli interested and sur prised to hear that he was to have an audience of 900 students who can speak English. wish I could have addressed them in French, he said, but I have too great a regard for my audience to try it.

Visit to M. Pichon At 5 o'clock Mr. Roosevelt paid the Foreign Minister, M. Pichon, at the Quai d'Orsay. There were a considerable number of spectators in the streets, and a large number of photographers tried to get snapshots of the ex fresident.

ine visit is distinctly popular in Paris, and in the leadinc boulevards manv of the buildings exhibit French and American flags. WL Pichon has given an interviewer his impressions of Mr. Roosevelt's character, and mentions amonc other owes to the ex President the modern develop ment ot its JVavy. At the same tune Mr. Roosevelt, he sax's, is a great friend of peace, as Frenchmen have good reason to remember an obvious reference to Algeciras.

He is trusty friend of France, and is convinced tin he two Republics ought to support one another and stand bv each other in all diflicultii It is a friend that we are receiving," concluded M. Pichon, "a sincere, upright, firm friend. Let us honour him." It expected that M. Clemenceaa will be was passinc and the Kinjr watched it go by with uncovered head. His Majesty received Bishop Schopfer, of Tarbes, on the principal square and chatted dirigible balloon Ule de Pau was carrying outevolutions on the Place Royale in front of the King's apartments.

The Kmc will return to Biarritz It is authoritatively stated that his Majesty for London, where he will arrive on Wednesday, maKing no stops on the way. THE QUEEN AT CORFU. CORFU. April 21. King George to day entertained Queen Alex andra and Princess Victoria at lunch, and ir the afternoon the Royal party visited the Achilleion.

In the evening Queen Alexandra gave a dinner on board the Royal vacht ir honour of the members of the Roval Family THE PRUSSIAN FRANCHISE BILL. COMMITTEE DECISIONS. ol President Fallitres's guests at the dinner which will be (riven at the Ely night in honour of Mr. Roosevelt. He left Carlsbad at noon to dav for France.

Temps announces that the ex Premier has been hard at work of late with his secretary, and mat ne nas aouotiess Deen composing the lectures on democracy which he is to deliver in South America. He is to start on his lecturing tour in June, and will not return to Paris until October. PARIS. April 21 Mr. and Mrs.

Roosevelt were received this afternoon by President Falberes. The President and Mme, Fallieres later on returned the visit. Mr. Roosevelt afterwards called on ex President THE AUSTRO HUXGARIAX ARMY. AN OFFICERS' RELIEF FUND.

rT.V OWN CORRESPOND VIENNA. April 21. with the Emperor Francis Joseph's 80th birthday on August 18 next it has been decided to create a fund of some 2,000,000. the interest of which will bo used to relieve officers of the Austro Hungarau Army from pecuniary embarrassment. The purpose.

fund will be drawn partly from the accumulated reserves of the Maria Theresa Order, partly acre1! Irom other military funds, and partly borrowed stone laid to dav will be th BERLIN, The Special Committee of the Upper House oi me uiet revised its previous proposals today and made most of the alterations which were recommended with such a show of firmness by Herr von Bethmann Hollweg on Tuesday. The resolution demanding that future durations of the franchise should require a two thirds majority in botfi Houses of the 1 hot was this time "iecied bv 14 votes atrainst six. The clause embodying the combination of secret and indirect voting was carried by a similar majority. A new scheme of privileges which would raise persons with educational qualifications, especially University training or administrative or business experience, from the third into the second, or the second into the first class of voters wa put into the Bill. Finally, the Committee adopted a rearrangement of votinc areas on a broader base than before.

though not, indeed, on so broad a bae as Herr von Bothmaim Hollweg recommended. This question of the normal size of the area within men voters shall be classified according to toiai amount oi income tax is important. Thd Govern lormal area to comprise 10,000 only 5,000 voters. Probably for bargaining if bargaining share of the paid within the are and the th. still The whole Bill was adopted bv 11 votes against eicht, with one abstention.

It is evi dent that the Free Conservatives and National Liberals recorded their votes against the Bill iaikns, especially with regard to the point just mentioned. Tn Sm ite i has The Bill less the Upper House of the Diet until next Thursday, but in the meantime' its fate will probably been settled by present evervbodv is engaged in declarinc dis satisfaction, but not everybody need be taken Iv. as most of the nronhets have been proved to be wrong by the decisions taken to day. It is however," not at all certe.in that the Bill will become law. Assuming thai the Upper House will take any such further steps as may be nece ary to meet the Govern or, a on: on Ins a and passed himself off i Chit Mahomedan.

In some of the most picturesque parts of his narrative, which was taken down from his own lips by a friend of mine, I have preserved as far as possible the original Chinese phraseology and idioms. The soldier a me fad of 19 is a simnle Chinese bumnkin. with bright face and a cheery manner, who tells his story in a straightforward and matter of fac wav. and does not orobablv at all realize th. importance of the events in wliich he played his small part.

The story bears the impress of veracity, and is moreover entirely in accord His name is Yen shen June, and he of Si ngan fu, where ho was serving as a soldier when the Dalai Lama passed through on his way to Tibet fj om Peking. The Dalai Lama, who was apparently already in some straits, asked the Governor of Shansi to give him a few Chinese soldiers to accompany him journey. The Governor acceded grudgingly to his request, and Yen shen Jung was one of the three who. were told off to join tho Tibetan party. When they finally reached Lhasa, the Dalai Lama was received outside the city by a large body of Tibetan dignitaries and monks, who were all drawn up on one whilst on the other side were drawn up the Chinese officials and soldiers.

The Dalai Lama exchanged friendly greetings with the former, but the Chinese he passed with his eyes looking another way and his head very high, and the Chinese said nothing, but their hearts were black with anger." Three days the Dalai Lama remained a temple caneu, the boy thought, Chang po, and there were creat rcioicintrs amoncst all the Tibetans. On the fourth day he went up to the Potala and took up his residence his palace on the hill. The. Escate i rom Lhasa. About what happened afterwards mv infor mant had little to tell until one night quite late the army of China appsgached Lhasa, beating show the great power of the army, as is the rule with the army of China, and also burning big fires and a great multitude of lights, so that the whole place was lighted up as in daylight.

Thereupon the Dalai Lama was (n a great fright and came out from his sleeping room and saw the brightness of the lights as of daylight. That tune he had no power of thought or will, nor could he think of anything that ho could do. For he was unable to get one thought or to take heart and dare to fight with the army of China, and of the Tibetan ofticers'and great dignitaries one ventured to go outside ior tear oi nav mg Lama had no thought or power but to fly to other place, and he bade his Ministers collect about 200 horsemen and make ready in that he should fly that night ot tlie of the army of China. And this was done as he had ordered, and tho Dalai Lama 1 his Ministers. the army of China had arrived with great speed and grown weak from fatigue on the road.

midnight to the palaco and catch tho Dalai Lama I Next morning the Ambans and military officers of the army of China went up ocvunv th palace, but when mey arrived rything was quiet, no one body being at home ide, and the officers of the army of China only made to look foolish, one face looldng another end nothing to be said or done. Presently, however, after they had thought a little, they ordered one young officer to take 40 horsemen and pursue the Dalai Lama, and they escape the Amban asked. And what things did he give you How much money did you have from him And what happened to that unlucky pursuing officer I cannot say, but the Dalai Lama himself was then safe in India. THE SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL POLICE. written to the Municipal Council protesting against the bringing into force of the Order in Council signed by King Edward and published in January enabling the British Minister to issue to the person in command of the Shanghai national settlement) a warrant empowering lum to inflict summary punishment with hard labour for a term not exceeding 15 day, on any police officer who, in the opinion of Ithe ouperintenoent, is guuty oi any of tho various acts of misdemeanour which enumerated in the order.

This power is intended as a substitute for the powers of immediate dismissal without appeal obtaining elsewhere. li is understood that the two Consuls took umbrage owing to their not having been consulted before the order was published. With of the foreign settlement are exclusively British. CANADA. THE COAL AND STEEL DISPUTE.

(from our own correspondent.) TORONTO, April 21. A compromise has been arranged between the factions warring for the control of the Novi Scotia Steel and Coal Company. The Nova Scotia Legislature not give the directors power to increase the capital stock withoul consultation with the shareholders. The head quarters of the company will be established at New Glasgow, and the present directors will remain in office until the expiration of the term Mr. J.

H. Plummer has announced the final terms of the settlement between the Dominion bteel and the Dominion Coal Companies. holding company is to be formed which will be called the Dominion Steel and Coal Corpora tion, and which will take the common stock of both companies, share for share, at addition $4 (16s.) in cash will be paid for each share in both Coal and Steel Companies. The proposal will be at once submitted bv circulation to every holder of common stock both companies. Englishmen in Ontario.

Two hundred Englishmen assembled to day Brantford (Ontario) to protest against state the Chief of Police. The charge was that Mr. Slemin had said that Englishmen gave more trouble to the police than any other class in On behalf of the Chief of Police it was explained that he referred only to a certain troublesome class of Englishmen, and not Englishmen in general. 1 lie meeting unanimously adopted a resolu the main cause of these eous declaration who are often entirely ignorant destination of their goods, as well as the way they record the port of disembarcation discrepancies is erron 3 part ot the exporters, ignorant of the real istead of the ultimate address of Evei THE FRENCH ACADEMY. RECEPTION OF M.

MARCEL PREVOST. (from oub own correspondent.) PARIS, April 21. An exceptionally interesting reception took ace to day at the French Academy. The dis tinguished novelist M. Marcel Prevost was Signor Luzzatti recommended his welcomed on behalf of that assembly to the seat sion to study carefully the question of intro of Victorien Sardou by a novelist and play ducing some system of declaration which would wright no less distinguished, M.

Paul Hervieu. i obviate the manifest disadvantages of the The prospect of hearing Sardou eulogized by Govt inty i lent a i the cry nd taken the Dalai Lama and other shore and there remained A Chinese Krs Seeing how small was the foolish Dalai Lama, whe 3 no boat on the, river, all Tibetans mid they a and his people to the th.mdit 200 ho real reform, and which is supported by all part excepting Socialists and Radicals. 10 an appearance it is the Cot who still control wreck the Bill if th amendments of the Upp a cheap fight and take tho. and behold all the 40 Ch down from their horses' backs and he f. ai Lcma again thought protesting with all the pc used by Chief Slemin." THE UNITED STATES.

THE NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY. (from our correspondent.) YO 21. Old Cuard" Fears are of the Congressional by at Rochester on Tuesday was significantly Albany to davvhen the Lower House of the Legislature ymaplmously and without debate adopted i for a drastic general investigation into legislative corruption. Scarcely a single voice is now raised by the ponsi tne thorough ig urgea Dy iiovernor nugnes. pressed, however, that such action to avert a Republican disaster at November unless Mr.

Roosevelt's es enthusiasm and confidence in the party. THE WOLTER MURDER TRIAL. NEW YORK, April 21. The most important witness at to day's proceedings in the trial of Albert Wolter for the murder of Ruth Wheeler was Kate Miiller, rho lived with Wolter. She described how the ireplaco where some of the remains of the nurdered girl were fotmd concealed twice fell own in the night, and how Wolter got up at nee on each occasion to put it right, refusing Ho, lid.

foo go through it Ifth. Hilii bv their fa of their influence with the Cc continue to say that "they ca about then ment in the matter is Their original proposals li proposals of which they other things." But the Chinese soldier not a nd, ana they had fallen from fieir horse backs only pretending i and by the cunning orders of their young officer. And when the Tibetan soldiers had come back their boats and were putting fate, and i the bet has been effect cd parties. Whate may now take they are hardly likely to la 1 lone. When the intentions of the Lower House have been discovered it will probably be considered meet and dignified to settle matters accordingly the Lpper House.

jumped up they killed and only a 1 whilst md, the Chinese soldiers fir 1 proposed removing tho before Ruth Wheeler counsel, outlined the THE ARGENTINE CENTENARY. 3 had attracted to the Mazarin a representative gathering of Parisian and the heavy balance against Italian corn society and men of letters. I merce. As an offset against the preponderance M. Marcel Prevost began his discourse with of imports over exports Signor Luxzf.tti ad an ingenious and delicately malicious allusion to the traditional Forty First seat of the 1 that the transmission of gold i Italy I you others have but one.

take his place by the novelists of hifl time, me that neither Balzac disc cision. Sardou and Paris. Modestly," however, M. Marcel Prevost made no effort to discover extraneous grounds for the Academy's choice of the successor of M. Sardou, and he proceeded immediately to consider the work of the great playwright.

Sardou was a Parisian born and bred, and he remained to' the end a passionate lover of the ransacked, and whose history he knew a have ever known it. M. Prevost. very naturally therefore, in describing the early years of Sardou, was tempted to insert in his discourse the following passage on Pans informed his earliest thought Paris, whi ed with history no less than Athens and with the successive ages of it's movci )f its streets, the accumulated documents ries, the bibelols that time has spared Paris, its popular risings which often shook Europe ng the mob, acclaimed Lamartine as he roc rseback through Xhp crowd, took part in the i 3 of the demagogues, and witnessed with ot nt the fright of the bourgeois Paris, where hu memories of the other, the great Kcvoh conversed with the wife of the member oi ticnal Convention Lebas, evoked the shad. The amount received from Italian emigrants abroad he estimated at the enormous sum of 40,000,000, basing his calculation on the American statement that 17,000,000 had been transmitted by Italians in the United States.

A strikinz passaze of M. Marcel Prevost' speech was that which had been suggested to plavs bv the famous niece Patric. which it perhaps, Sardou's greatest work. Up to the ar 180H naa written only comeay. Urie was played for the first time in 1869, 1 a year after the production of the admirable drama of patriotism La Fille de Roland, by Henri de Bornier, a circumstance which enaoled M.

Marcel Prevost, with the memory also of Merimee's foresight in his mind, to observe that the literature just preceding the war revealed tho approach of a catastrophe. He continued Patrie plus deademcnt patrie plus l'idee te de patrie ne telle date en tel ain ergotage Comme si l'idee de nait pas i'histoire du monde depuis suspendant lours luths aux saules ingdrc, jusqu'a Winkelried, jusqu'au as, jusqu'aux humbles he'ros do la de nos paysages, de notre paas, et nous ne voulons pas chercher quellcs es et mesurables tu symbolises au de co qu'il a de plus noble et de dans un groupe humain Divinite, de M. El M. Piul Hervieu is a singularly frank and flattering eulogy of the new Academician, almost entirely devoid of that irony which, even in its most academically diluted form, sometimes obliges immortal to pass a mauvais quart fl To day is celebrated as the birthday of Rome. and King Victor Emmanuel presided at a ceremony of no little importance to the city the laying of the foundation stone of a inew block of buildintrs to be constructed for the occupation of Government employes.

400,000 was voted by Parliament for tr, tract of land near tlie Porta the upper part of the city and not the walls, a little more than 12 has been ecquircd, and the it of these also were killed Dalai Lama was like the foolish man it content with having caught a bird take the nest also, and in trying to Dalai Lama had happily escaped from Lhasa I with 200 horsemen and much treasure, and because he was not contented with so much I good fortune, now he had barely anything left at all. and he had to ride away with only a few horses, just enough for himself and his Ministers, and all his boxes he had to leave behind, and there was one box with State i papers and much gold, and that box also was left for the Chinese to take, perhaps this also i was good fortune for the Dalai Lama. For when the Chinese soldiers had crossed the river, in the boats they had taken during the fight, they found the boxes, and what time they had finished quarrelling over the gold they forgot to pursue the Dalai Lama; and good iui tuner maae good ins es, ape. And so he the from financial institutes. The Mam Theresa booses which will be built there for the Order, which is conferred only for heroism in the modation of part of the great army of Gove; of officers.

Now these Chinese officers marvelled greatly when they saw the Dalai Lama coming in him with the 'usual smooth face, Yjr no news had come to them from the Amban that th although two foreign Princes, the Count of hoped, soon be begun in the Piazza d'Armi how matters really stood. And, again, at Caserta and the Duke of Cumberland, also for the Use of others whose employment lies Phari jong the Dalai Lama got safely "through, possess the distinction. These superabundant the lower part of the city. It is only by and so to Chuthyung Kampo, and then about resources will now be employed for the less measures of this kind that any relief can be i six miles further in the Chumbi to another brilliant but possibly more useful purpose of given to the existing overcrowding in Rome, i place where there is another Customs office saving the younger "officers of the army from since it would appear that little can be hoped of China with a Chinese general and some tbe pressure of debt by advancing to them sums for from private building enterprise. soldiers.

There, also, the Chinese general had proportionate to their rank and the obligations The housing problem, though il affects Rome no news and let the Dalai Lama go forth in they may have incurred. It is stated that the more seriously than other cities, is beginning peace. ihe ROME, ApniL 21. Tho appointment of Signor Ferdinando Argentina seems to be generally approved the toHosing veroiCTnnwe parcel prevost in tho Press, thuch di anpoi pressed in some quarters that the Italian repre sentative should be accompanied by so small a naval display as a single cruiser, the Pisa, which is to take him to Buenos Ayres. Italy's interests in Argentina are so large that it is thought that a special effort should have been will range from 125 for a second lieu to present itself in other parts of Italy also.

tenant to 320 for a captain, and so on. Re Only yesterday the mu stion of hieh reiits was payment will be gnade by small monthly the subject of demonstrations at Bari, which deductions from pay. interest being calculated 'd to rather serious disturbances. at an extremely low rate. Ihe circumstances that a large proportion of rT ormJ crr, vt Austro Hungarian officers are drawn from the I THE FLOODS IN SERMA.

middle and lower dale classes, and live, or try BELGRADE, April 2 to live, on their scanty pay the extraordinary hi i Reports from the inundated districts dt crease in the cost of living in Austria Hungary, the situation as verv critical, and so exter especially in the large towns, where it is cril is the damage done that the floods are regarded cuiatea to nave risen Dy nearly iw per cent, as a nauonai nanu within the hist ten years and the consequent munication between Belgrade and crowth of "the plague of usury among the entirely interrupted. hensibie with fixed Df an officers' relief fund expressed when even effort is being made flooded dist: enhance the efficiency and to stimulate the to remain ii rit of the armed forces. Unfortuoft'tely such have left for the measure can only be a palliative, not a remedy, Inch immediately to visit the cts, but the Cabinet induced him Belgrade. Some of the Ministers fionri. hing part of Scrvia.

tor the economic evils which afflict the army no I A national subscription in aid of the sufferers lam than the omchd classes generally. The has been opened, the King heading the list with causes of the discrepancy between income and la large contribution. ROBBERY FROM THE KREMLIN. MOSCOW. Aram St.

Ornaments valued at about 100,000 have been stolen from tho famous ikone of the Virgin and from pictures of saints in the Uspenski Cathedral in the Kremlin. THE CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS IN ITALY. (fkom our own correspondent. ROME, Aran, 19. Three elections to tho Chamber of Deputies which took place on Sunday, and of which the results are announced to day.

deserve some notico as illustrations of the difficulties which stand in the way of the orderly collection of votes in Italy. The Extreme parties are wont to complain of tho undue interference of the authorities in political elections, accusing them of wilfully promoting disorders for the benefit of official candidates. In these elections the Government' has scrupulously abstained from any interference which wa not absolutely necessary, and the results would show that tho disorders are almost entirely due to the partisans of the Extreme candidates. In Albano, where the previous election of a Radical had been annulled ov.ing to gross irregularities, there were three candidates. The poll was headed by the Moderate candidate with 3.108 votes, while the Extreme Left candidate only obtained 1,920, and the Clerical l.oJb.

the Jixtremo parties, there But when a large party of Chinese cavalry rived in that place just afterwards, the officer command said to that general Why did iu not stop the flying Dalai Lama according the Amban has ordered And tho rreneral nlicd No State naner with such orders fore, polled less than one third of the vi as reached me, and why should I have stopped a constituency in which they have been for But, you. instead of scolding, why do some time past clamorously protesting their iu not new quickly pursue him, for surely i preponderance. Furthermore, the abstention is not yet more than tour to hve miles oi unn. mi wurauun uio puii ieu they went off and pursued him, famous articlo with what priceless generosity, carries exceptional weight. M.

Hervieu dwelt on M. Prevost's independence from tho outset in holding equally aloof from the excessive naturalism and the mad symbolism which dominated French literature when he first began to write. M. Prevost remained in the trench tradition by insisting upon the duty of the novelist to tell a story instead of heaping up, after the fashion of the Goncourts and tho realists, "inorganic matter" and mere jottings of life. M.

Hervieu said With. AFFAIRS IN SOMALILAND. A Parliamentary paper Cd.5132 was issued by the Colonial Office last night containing further correspondence relating to affairs in Somaliland. and being a continuation of the correspondence noticed in The Times of In a telegram dated April 6 Sir William Manning gives the following account of tlie fight which was recently the subject of questions both Mouses ot Parliament On morning of March 22 Miijerlcin were commencing their retirement when it was reported by their scouts that party of enemy was in their front. Fricndlics attacked enemy and completely defeated them, killing many and capturing many rifles.

They found on their return that other parties had surrounded them from behind. Severe fighting ensued, ammunition failed, and as many as were able escaped, restvbeing killed or captured. Sfljjerteta had littto ammunition at the fight, owing to their carelessness in not bringing it up before. It is now stated that fricndlics' casualties were under 200, and that rifle lost numbered less than 150. The Dervishes' loss was undoubtedly severe, and included followur; Adam Maleh.

also Nur Hcdig, skot Morale of frieldlief ret feared. THcy Adam Maleh. also Shireh Ambaleh, killed. through both legs. so much shaken as was at low concentrated between nd Bohotloh with Aligheri.

They have received 80 ponies since tlie flsht, and have ample ammunition. The telegram from Aden is an exaggeration of this incident. The tribes are now gencrallv in a much better position to defend themselves than they were while we occupied the interior. At the present time it most be remembered that all sorts of exaggerated versions of the doings of the Dervishes and of our evacuation are a curiosity in Berbcra trad in Aden, and for the sake of sensation such news is eagerly accepted at Aden. Writing on March 3 the Commissioner expressed his views of future developments in the in 1 think that it is certain that there win be raids and some disorder in the interior at tin but that in course of time a similar condition of affairs will arise as that which now exists from Ras Hafoun to Obbia, where Osman Mahmoud, the Mullah, and Ali Yusuf are at continual enmity, and where raids and reprisals arc constantly occurring, and where tbe fortunes of war favour at some seasons the Mullah and at others his enemies.

I think tliat the weak and effeminate sections of the Ishaak tribes will ot necessity seek refuge with, and be absorbed in, those combinations which are able to and desire to under d. f. that o. i us. They have A little rough i mbination, and with good results and who, until ''in coast, again discussed the situation interior in'.

ri I it period of tvagc people lik Somalia will i til restraint of oar administration the control consequent on oar ic the fear of a the adjustment I be regarded. Your tiprognated with et.v:.. e. ciin l.mgiKis. pnn r.n.ilurnii5 lo th (seem to have a Un leney r.v of gravitation.

Boo selves by v. it n. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS IX ITALY. and very near did thev come to catch hii but only their eyes caught him just as he reached the Chumbi and entered an English station, and then they could not' catch him any more, for the Dalai Lama had both feet securely in English territory, and the English officers guarded him and sent him on to Darjeeling. But the pursuing officer, I have heard tell, when he returned looking very foolish to Lhasa, the Amban sent for him and was exceeding angry.

Why did you let that Dalai Lama ion at tho noils led to cross disorder in more than one district of the constituency, where the partisans of the Extreme candidate were admittedly in a minority, and this in spite of the fact that the three candidates wero in cordial and praiseworthy agreo tne pcaceiui ana iair conduct ora. At Luzo. where the Con ititutional and Socialist candidates will have to resort to a further ballot, which is likely to result in the election of the Socialist, polling has proceeded more peacefully. HOME, Anui. 19.

While Minister of Agriculture in the last jvernment Signor Luzzatti instituted a com ission of inquiry into the commercial relations of Italy with other countries, and more especially into tho extraordinary discrepancies lerco drawn up in Italv and "those published abroad. This commission held to day its first meeting, and the opening address delivered by oignor ihuh explained now necessary us nouirv was. The Premier zave some instances of the contradictory character of international statistics, wmcn were certainlj amazing. import of Italian goods, chiefly silk, in; frm inter tribal iealounirs and pr. s.

II. Ion this phase rill last it is not poa iible to predict, but it is reasonable to expect that I have distinctly informed the tribes that we shall no way interfere or attempt to control their actions the interior, that their disputes must be settled to their customs among themselves. THE MURDER OF BOUTROS PASHA. CAIRO, Aran, ft The trial of Wardani for the murder of Boutros Pasha, late Premier, began at clock this rriorninsr. The President of the Assize Court, M.

Dilberoglue, asked Wardani if he admitted tne muraer. ne prisoner repuea that he would answer after his counsels pleadings. After the evidence of those who witnessed the crime had been taken Dr. Milton declared that the death of Boutros Pasha was due to shock and haemorrhage, and that the operation which he, with tho assistance of other doctors, performed in no way caused death. Ho also stated that death would have been inevitable without an operation as the shots had perforated the liver twice.

Other doctors who assisted at or witnessed the operation stated that it was necessary and offered the only chance of saving the Premier's life. The examination of witnesses for the defence was then begun. Several doctors expressed' tho view that the operation was unnecessary. Some professors and schoolmasters said that Wardani was quiet, but was not a good scholar, and was of weak character, though his conduct wa3 good. The Court adjourned until THE WILHELM MEISTER MANUSCRIPT.

(from ocb own corbespoxdext.) BERLIN. April 21. According to a telegram from Weimar, the Wilhelm Meister manuscript which was recently discovered at Zurich lias been acquired for tho Goethe and Schiller archives at Weimar. Considerably higher prices than that for which it has finally been sold were offered, it seems, by various publishers and libraries, but the owner preferred that it should be placed with the other Goethe manuscripts. DAMAGES AGAINST A MOTORI8T.

PARIS, April 21. telegram received liere from Difmc (Basses Alpes) Tim fhied 200f. (8) and ordered to pay compensation to amount of 30.000f. (1,800) to the widow sad Switzerland in 1908 is estimated by Italian returns at about 12,000,000 the Swiss statis ELECTRIFICATION OF CHILIAN tics only register an import of less than 1 RAILWAYS 7 000 000. On the other hand the import of SANTIAGO DE CHILE, April J0.

silk into England, estimated by Italy at about 90.000. is recorded in English statistics at over tnJtJZaLZ 800,000. According to Italian statistics the Vnlparriso and its branches, the total length of traoe wun tne Argentine Kepubiic is enormous, 1 wag tov kilometres iioo and that with the inlying countries of South America almost nil. Jh2L South American I l7 statistics would prove the reverse. Obviously The electrification remainder of Through Reuter's Agency.