General Cable News.

Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 17, 6 December 1904, Page 2

General Cable News.

LONDON, Monday. A wave of religious revivalism is spreading over Wales. Some remarkable scenes are described, and in a number of districts football and other amusements aie entirely foresworn. The Paris Committee of the Chamber of Deputies has adopted a bill for the disestablishment of the Roman Catholic Church in France. Kaio McLean, who recently escaped from Moroccan tribesmen, attributes the unrest in Morrocco, besides the revolt against the Sultan, to bitterness arising out of French Protectorate persecution. The Russian Minister of the Interior, Prince Stviatopolk Mii-ski, has assured a deputation, of Russian Zionists that they need not fear persecution. The Russian press is beginning to criticise severely the policy of sending the fleet to the Far East, the ‘‘ Moscow Gazette ” contending that it is being sent to almost certain destruction. The military critic of “Novoe Vremya” points out that as the Russian warships at Port Arthur and Yladivostock are not able to render the Baltic fleet any assistance, the fleet will have’ to rely on its own resources/ The Russian newspaper “Novoe Vremya ” publishes ail article on the Dardanelles question, which has attracted a good deal of attention. It argues that it is no longer necessary to consult Great Britain with regard to the Treaty of Paris, which does not bind Japan and hampers Russia, and suggests that the Porte might for a consideration bo induced to waive its advantages. The writer (believed to be Captain Clado, of the Baltic fleet) goes on to say that probably Great Britain would make a great outcry as in former years, and more recently in the case of the Dogger Bajik affair, but it would come to nothing, while Russia n any case would aide to offer something in exchange for Great' Britain’s consent. The principal portion of the Baltic fleet under Roslidestveusld has reached Dakar Bay, on the west-coast of Africa. It is being coaled by nine Gennan and two English colliers. The second division of the fleet, under Foelkersham, which recently passed through the Suez Canal, paid £14,700 ii: canal .dues, Foelkersham’s auxiliary squadron arrived at Jibuti!, oh tliV>Sornali Coast, and near the southern entrance of the Red Sea. i