INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1455, 16 May 1905, Page 2

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

RUSSIA’S CHAGRIN AT MR BALFODR’B SPEECH.

A ROUMANIAN ULTIMATUM. PACIFIC FRANCE.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 10.35 p.m., May 15. .. London, May 15. Mr Balfour’s speech has drawn a bitter anger. Russian newspapers confess they are helpless at present. -Some declare that Russia must enter into commercial relations with Afghanistan. .Others Bay that the Ameer is no longer independent.

Advices from Roumania state that a Note uemands recognition of Roumanians living in Turkey as subjects of a distinct nationality, and requests an answer by the 23rd. If unsatisfactory, it breaks ■ diplomatic relations with the Porte.

Received 10.40 p.m., May 15. Roumania’s demands arose through the arrest of two Roumanian officials at Yanina. *■

Paris, May 15. The Newfoundland Arbitration Tribunal meets in Paris in June. The claims of 600 sailors for lobb of wages, and owners deprived of establishments on the French shore, aggregate 20,000,000 francs.

A National Interests and International Conqiliation Society has been formed in Paris. Scientists, writers, artists, politicians, and lawyers of all countries in Europe and America are eligible for membership. The objects are to promote internal prosperity of all nations and international amity. ’ The presidents are MM. Berthelot, Bourgeois, and Etournelles for France, Lord Marlborough for Great Britain, and Mr Andrew Carnegie for the United States.