News and Miscellany

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 6, 1911

News and Miscellany

— The governor-general of Russia has instructed the governors of the Maritime Provinces to submit to him lists of all Jews lacking a right of residence in their jurisdiction. Those not possessing this right are to be expelled from the country.

— The seamen's strike leaders in the district of Liverpool issued a manifesto ordering all union workers employed by forty-six firms in the shipping federation to stop work on June 26. At the Firth of Forth ports, shipping is at a standstill. At Leith thirty-seven steamers can not find crews. The ship owners at Rotterdam, at a meeting held June 24, refused to make concessions to the strikers.

— Richard Parr, deputy surveyor of the customs at the port of New York, who has obtained the evidence upon which the government will try certain wealthy and influential smugglers, claims that his investigations concerning the operations of these men are but the entering wedge to a much larger case involving a conspiracy to cheat the government of millions of dollars. He claims to have evidence of smuggling operations involving at least $2,000,000 worth of goods which have been brought into that port.