Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 18 March 1899, Page 2

Foreign.

The North Germ-n Gazette, in commenting on the Samoan nffair, aayd Chief Justice Chambers was the i>nly one entitled to determine the r-gnlan'ty of Ma a fa's election. Dr R.fiM was not entitled to assume j ulical functions because Chi •• J.i-nice Chambers was terporari y ah^nt on board H.M 8. Porpoise. rh- jury has acquitted M Gohie . an anti Dreyfuiite journalist, who was prosecuted for the publication of a book entitled • Army against Na tion " The widict elicited enthusiastic cheers for " the Re^ubiio " and for " liberty." The B>.-iohstag ejected, by 200 to 141, thp GovM-nment proposals r or increasing ihe p^ace effec ivenesa of the military. The Beichstag aso "j^ctrd the rHCommtndation of the Budget Committee, which had ai- j ready made considerable reduotioa !

in the numbers proposed of additional forces. This action waj taken d j ppite hintfi by the Government that the Kaiser was strongly io favour of strengtheniug the army md wa« dominated by a strong sen^e •f the responsibility and of solicitude fir tb.fi safety nf rhe Empire. II 0 ci! R . t; ii.i* arrarj;^that the trans African railway flnr' f.flegraph lines will traverse German •rritory on the pns'fru sidi* i:f L»kTanganyika. Mr Rhod- s found in. German authorities in complete ac cord with him. Had Garmany been averse, Mr Rhodes had an alternative scheme for carrying the line* through the Congo State.