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fore, arranged with an independent result of great anaemia and probably pro- 

 financial house in London for a loan of longed difficulty in the use of his legs. 

 £10,000,000. Significant light is shed But there is httle doubt that the 

 upon the designs of the Six-Power Imperial youth was shot — why or by 

 group by the Pekin correspondent of whom remains a riddle unsolved. For- 

 the Daily Telegraph, who announces the tunately, though not without having 

 local publication of a confidential report to undergo dangerously high tempera- 

 fortheSix-Powergroup, the joint authors tures, the patient is steadily recovering, 

 of which are the Japanese financial Hairbreadth 'scapes in early life are 

 agent, M. Odagiri, and the Councillor of often taken to augur careers of eminent 

 Legation, Midzun. After burdening the service. Let us hope that both these 

 Salt Gabelle, for the sake of argument, heirs of Empire are spared to confer 

 with the total annual Boxer indemnities, signal blessings on the world. If the 

 the report states unequivocally that the besom of the Balkan Allies succeeds in 

 surplus available permits China to sweeping Turkey out of Europe, the 

 borrow immediately, without reorgani- democratic sentiment of the world will 

 sation, £26,000,000. Nothing better be apt to locate the two least progressive 

 illustrates the fact that the whole of the centres of modern government in the 

 Sextuple policy was to seize China and Russian Duma and in the unreformed 

 hold her indefinitely in mortmain. Prussian Landtag. Happy will these 



Princes be if they help to transform 



The Heirs - Apparent their respective Parliaments into the 



Heirs- to two of thc mightiest responsible organs of free democracies. 



in^angeJ. throucs iu tlic world 



had both of them a The prospects of Home 



narrow escape from death last month. The Progress Rule have distinctly 



The German Crown Prince, while hunt- HonTe Rule, improved during the 



ing near Dantzig, was flung from his month. September 



horse and fell head foremost to the ended with a wild menace of Orange 



ground, sustaining injuries that are, revolt that culminated in " Ulster Day " 



happily, declared not to be very serious, and the signing of " the Covenant." The 



A much more mysterious affair is the latter part of October finds Lord Dun- 



" accident " which befell the univer- raven busy with proposals for a confer- 



sally popular Tsarevitch. At first it was ence between parties, and with Sir 



given out as the result of the boy's Edward Carson openly admitting in 



frolic. But another version is suggested the House of Commons that there was 



.by the subsequent suicide of Admiral no fear of religious hberty being interfered 



Tchagin, who commanded the Imperial with by any Acts of an Irish Parliament, 



yacht Standart, and by the rumour that As Mr. Redmond points out elsewhere 



the " accident " occurred on board that in this issue. Sir Edward Carson has 



vessel. The official account states that practically surrendered the argument 



the Prince, in jumping into a boat, which chiefly weighed with Protestant 



sprang too far, with consequent internal and Nonconformist susceptibilities — 



effusion of blood, and with the further namely, that " Home Rule would mean 



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