Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Jun 22, 1905

— China is replying to the exclusion law rigorously maintained by the United States, by a boycott on American-made goods. A dispatch from Tientsin states that the Chinese guilds are behind the boycotting movement, and that the latter is daily assuming more serious proportions.

— A deficit of about $30,000,000 for the fiscal year is announced at the Treasury Department, and government officials express the opinion that legislation by Congress to increase the revenues of the government will be a necessity at the next session, as there is no prospect of a decrease in expenditures in the near future, if at all.

— The popular premier of Greece, Theodore Delyannis, was stabbed and mortally wounded by a professional gambler named Gherakaris at the entrance of the Chamber of Deputies in the afternoon of June 13. The premier died within three hours. The assassin, who was immediately arrested, said he committed the deed in revenge for the stringent measures taken by Premier Delyannis against the gambling houses, all of which recently were closed.

— The insurrection against Turkish rule in Macedonia is marked by frequent combats, in some of which a large number of those engaged are killed or wounded. One of the latest reports from that region, dated at Salonica, says: “A band of Macedonian insurgents, eighty strong, commanded by Tontcheff, was completely exterminated by Turkish troops near Palanka, June 13, after seven hours’ severe fighting. The Turks lost nine killed, including two officers, and had eleven men wounded.”

— The unions of workingmen in Norway and Sweden, together with the Socialists, are exerting a most important influence on the political situation growing out of the separation of Norway from the union. A dispatch from Stockholm states that Swedish labor unions are daily telegraphing the unions in Norway that they will refuse to bear arms in any effort by the Swedish government to coerce Norway into reunion with Sweden. The Social Democratic party has issued a proclamation saying that it is the firm decision of the workingmen not to respond to any call to arms.

— Russia and Japan have agreed to enter into negotiations to end the war, and Washington has been selected as the place where the negotiations will be conducted, Japan not being willing that any European city should be chosen. Meanwhile the opposing armies in Manchuria seem to be on the eve of another battle, and it is feared an armistice may not be established in time to prevent another conflict. The Japanese commander, Oyama, is reported to have with him an army of 600,000 men, and it is expected that the force under General Linevitch, which is said to be only about half as large, will be surrounded and captured if the battle is fought.

— Another war cloud is looming darkly over Europe. A Paris dispatch of recent date says: “Much uneasiness prevails in official quarters here concerning the Franco-German situation growing out of the Moroccan question, and the continued cabinet crisis resulting from M. Delcassé’s retirement from the foreign office. Although the conferences between Premier Rouvier and Prince Radolin, the German ambassador, continue, they have not yet brought the satisfactory results that the officials anticipated. The Bourse to-day showed marked sensitiveness concerning the ministerial uncertainty.”