Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jun 9, 1904

— The British expedition into Tibet is having an experience of almost continuous fighting with hostile natives, and the British government has decided to give it ample support, at a cost of $1,500,000 a month.

— A British military commission appointed to consider changes advisable in the militia and volunteer forces has made a report recommending a period of enforced military training for all able-bodied males in Great Britain.

— Interest in the war in the far East centers around the siege of Port Arthur, which is now closely invested by the Japanese forces. The fall of this stronghold is generally expected in European military circles, though not without the lapse of considerable time and much loss of life. A large Russian force is reported to have been sent by General Kuropatkin to the relief of Port Arthur. A large quantity of war material was captured by the Japanese at Dalny.

— In some places evidences are being seen of a desire on the part of labor unions to unionize the State militia. A Geneva, N. Y., press dispatch of recent date says: “The enlistment of two non-union stove employees threatened to disrupt the ranks of the Thirty-fourth Separate Company. Several applied for their discharges, but later withdrew the requests. Capt. J. G. Stacey is not at all worried over the situation, and says the members of the company must understand that there is absolutely no distinction in the National Guard between union and non-union men.”

— The fifth great dock fire at Jersey City in four years, occurred Sunday afternoon, May 29, starting in the freight yards of the Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railway.

— Diplomatic negotiations of an interesting character between the United States, England, France, and Morocco, have grown out of the seizure of an American named Pericardis, and his nephew, an Englishman, in Morocco, by a brigand chief, who demands a large sum for the ransom of his prisoners. An American squadron is now at Tangier, and the United States has asked the French government, which claims a protectorate over the country, to take measures for the release of the captives.