HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.
THE FRENCH IN AFRICA. ENGLAND CHECKMATED. (Per Press Association). Beklin, August 15. Cholera is increasing in Eastern Germany. London. August 14. The Franco- Congolese Convention has been signed. It covers the points raised in the Anglo-Congolese treaty. The Queen has given the Kaiser a tentative promise to visit Prussia next spring. Sir James Whitehead (Liberal), M.P. for Leicester, has resigned owing to sickness. Despite the strenuous opposition of Messrs Weddel, the frozen meat importers have sold the whole of the shipTurakioa's cargo to Germany and Austria August 15. The Congo state, under treaty "with Franco, has renounced (?) the territory leased to Great Britain, and makes a complete surrender to France. The geographical section of the British Association for the advaccemeut of ecience ha 9 moved in the direction of urging the Imperial Government to explore the Antartic regions. The House of Lords has rejected the Evicted Tenants Bill by 249 to 30.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 43, 16 August 1894, Page 2
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