ENGLAND NO MORE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 140, 3 May 1900, Page 3

ENGLAND NO MORE.

The popularity of the idea of breaking up the Bxitish Empire hi Parisian circles, has been amply illustrated this week by the fate of the special > umber of tho Monde IlliHtre, entiilad the •' Auglo-l'Yaneo-riuss.ian War. ' £lus bochure went oh hke hot cakes, and in a conple of dava, it is said, over half a million copies were disposed ot m Pans 'and envuon^ alone. The story, which is sthringly illustrated, may be summarised thus : — Ilio&fcilities break out owing to an Afghan outrage ot the Koushk Bail way Station. The Butish bombard iVlarsoilies. The franco-Russian Fleets U'lHu at Bizerta. A British descent at Granville is repulsed. Menelik invades the Souda.i. Lord Oromer is inmderpd at Cairo, Malra is take<i, and the Mediteruinean i^leet destroyed. An insuuection breaks out in India. I The Frauco-lluswan Fleets appear in j the Channel, and partly owing to the submarine vessels. Sir Harry Kawson's Fieot is annihilated. Th« Fronch land .it Brighton, :iud General Maichand is killed at the vicloiy of LewebMarshal Jaino it coteis London at the head of his tioons, while the FrancoKussian Fleets are received with frantic enuhubiasm in oppressed Ireland. Meanwhile frightful disasters overtake the Butish in India, and Loid Robeits is killed at Khaudahar. Finally Sir 11. Campbell B,inne;man and Lord Eosoberrv, for GreaD JJii'tain, the Giard Duke Sergms and Count Mouraviffi for Russia, and Admiral Cdilltud and M. Deschanel, for France, are appointed to arrange the Treaty of London. The treaty provides for the annexation to 'some other Power of every Biitish possession and the independence of Australia. Great .Britain is no more.