Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Aug 11, 1904

— The United States is sending a fleet to Turkey to impress upon the mind of the sultan the advisability of yielding to the demand of the United States government that American citizens in Turkey be granted the same rights and privileges accorded citizens of more favored nations. The sultan is inclined to procrastinate over the matter.

— The Japanese forces operating north of Port Arthur have continued their victorious march northward, while the Russian army has contested almost every mile of the ground, but has been forced to a steady retreat. On August 6 it was reported that General Kouropatkin was concentrating the Russian army for a final decisive battle at Liao Yang, which was to take place by the following Monday at the latest. Not much news has been received for some days from Port Arthur, but the Japanese besiegers seem to be making steady progress in their investment of the place.

— Bishop Potter, of New York, who recently gave his blessing to a saloon in that city which was designed to be conducted on “model” principles and serve as a sort of poor man’s club, has been censured for his act by his brother bishops and others prominent in religious and educational circles, at a meeting called at Ocean Grove, N. J., August 7. It was reported that plans were to be laid at this meeting for securing and presenting to Congress a monster petition asking the government to take charge of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquids, and restrict the same to medicinal uses.