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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 17, 1907

— The Russian Admiralty is preparing to carry out its plan for the construction of a large fleet of naval vessels. Each squadron will consist of four battle-ships, eight cruisers, torpedo-boats, and auxiliary vessels. The battle-ships will be of the “Dreadnaught” type.

— The new turbine steamship “Lusitania,” of the Cunard line, on her second trip from Queenstown to New York, which ended October 10, eclipsed all previous records, as the voyage was completed in four days, nineteen hours, and forty minutes. She is 790 feet long, and carried 3,000 passengers.

— It is reported that the British government has accepted the bandit Raisuli’s revised terms for the release of his captive. Said Sir Harry Maclean, who has been held since July 3. If his present demands are granted, Raisuli will receive British protection for himself and his family, and $150,000 ransom, guaranteed by Abdul-Aziz, sultan of Morocco.

— Despite the precautionary measures taken by the governor to prevent an outbreak at the time of the funeral of a police officer who was killed at Odessa, Russia, in an attempt to break up an anarchistic meeting, the unionists renewed their anti-Semitic outrages. It was found necessary to send eighteen Jews to hospitals on account of the beatings they had received. The police dispersed the mobs, but no arrests were made.