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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 156, 31 December 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

♦. THE CURSE OF MILITARISM. A DISGRACED GOVERNOR. LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL. MR GLADSTONE AND THE ARMENIAN ATROCITIES. (PEB PBESS AHSOCIATIONI St. John's, December 28. The commission set up to enquire into tbe depression recommends the Government to endorse 30 per cent of the Commercial Bank's notes and 85 per cent of those of tbe Union Bank. London. December 29 Mr Gladstone considers it is the duty of tho Powers to await tbe results of the enquiries as to the outrages by the Turkish soldiery in Armenia, and if the alleged atrocities are proved, outraged humanity should execrate the Sultan of Turkey, and make him sensible of the madness of his policy. The latest bulletin regarding the condition of Lord Raudolph Churchill states that he is less comatose, and that the immediate danger has diminished, though his condition is otherwise unchanged. At the request of the Marquis of Salisbury, tbe Marquis of Lome has consented to act as one of tbe judges to decide the best scheme for an Imperial Customs Union, for wbich the Statist offers a prize of 1000 guineas. St Petersburg, Dpcember29. Next year the Russian Volunteer fleet will carry ten thousand troops to Vladivostock. Beblin. December 28. Taking a lesson from tbe naval fight off Yalu River between the Chinese and Japanese warships, the German Government have decided to exclude all wood from tbeir new warships, even to -the furniture. c ingapoke. December 30 Governor Lauesban, of ludo-China, has been dismissed from office, on the ground of having divulged the contents of official documents. ammrnwrmmt — — —