Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 11 December 1894, Page 3

Foreign.

French marines are occupying Majunga, a town on the north-west coast of Madagascar, and the Hovas are withdrawing to the interior. A icene took place in the Reichstag owing to the fact that members belonging W the Socialist P arty refused to cheer the Emperor as he en< the Chamber to deliver his speech at the opening. Tha ground of their refusal wai that he recently informed the recruits in the: army that it wai their duty to fire on their fellow-citizens if they were ordered to do so. Other members roundly denounced the Socialist Party. Prince Hehenlohe, the Chancellor, has at the instigation of the Emperor introduced in the Reichstag an Ariti-Socialist Bill providing for severe penalties on those proved to be connected with any revolutionary plot, or attack upon religion, the monarchy, marriage or property. Special provision is made to prevent the military joining any such movement. The British embassy ii detained at Fez, and the position iff regarded as critical, as the insurgente have oomraand of the roads to the coast. Twenty citizens who ventured out* side the walli which surround Fez were murdered. Mdme. Sara fiernhardt is to be decorated as a Chevalier of the Order of the Legion of Honour, In the Chamber of Deputies Baron Blanc, Foreign Minister, said the Italian troops had occupied Kassala on a similar footing to that held by the British troops in Suakiro, and the course adopted had solidified Italian relations with Great Britain regarding Egypt. He added that it wag not intended to attack Khartoum. The Commissioners from the United States will act with those chosen by Turkey and Great Britain in enquiring into the Armenian outrages. The Austrian press is alarmed at the English feeling against Turkey, that England will assist the Russian designs, M. Ferdinand de Lesseps is dead.