Review of Reviews, 1/3/06. 



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afifect the relations between Japan and Korea, have 

 been brought to light ... Fifty German editor.*; are 

 visiting England in response to the invitation of the 

 Anglo-Geiinan Friendship Committee in London ... 

 Good progress is made in the British House of Com- 

 mons with the consideration in committee of the Edu- 

 cation Bill. 



June '23. — At a conference of the managers and 

 editors of tiie leading London newspapers, it is agreed 

 that, if England should be involved in war, they will 

 control, and, if necessary, restrict the dissemination 

 of war news ... An outrage by Russians against Jap- 

 anese sailors has occurred at the town of Tigil, in 

 Eastern Siberia ... It is repoi-ted that the Onent Steam 

 Navigation Company has failed to secure the new 

 contract for the carriage of mails between Australia 

 and England ... The Premier of France declares that 

 the Government intends to make financial, economic 

 and social reforms, with the object of paving tlie way 

 for the union of capital and labour, and the develop- 

 ment of education. 



June 2-5. — The principals of the American Beef Trust 

 are heavily fined ... Steps are being taken to form a 

 new Labour Party in the United States Legislature ... 

 A big fire takes place at Nicolet, in Canada, and 

 causes damage to the extent of £80.000. 



June 26. — A strike of foreign workers in a tailoring 

 establishment in tl-.e East End of London is termin- 

 ated ... An appeal is made by the Cobden Club in 

 London, to Australians, not to urge preference ... 

 Count Witte is distressed at the effect the Russian 

 massacres are having on foreign countries. 



June 27. — A discovery has been made of another plot 

 to assassinate the King and Queen of Italy ... It fs 

 stated by an expert that owing to the rapid improve- 

 ments in .shipbuilding, the bulk of the British fleet in 

 five years will be obsolete ... Tlie suppression of the 

 native rising in Natal is proceeding steadily ... An 

 angry scene takes place in the Russian Douma ... An- 

 other attempt has been made to as.sassinate General 

 Trepqff (Dictator of St. Petersburg) ... Through an 

 oversight on the part of postal officials in Bengal, a 

 reprieve for a man condemned to death arrives too 

 late. 



June 28. — The visit of .50 leading German editors to 

 England is a pronounced .success ... General Rennen- 

 kampf is stated to have declared that a war of revenge 

 between Russia and Japan is imminent ... A million- 

 aire named Thaw shoots another millionaire named 

 White, and kills him ... The Public Prcsecutor of 

 France declares Captain Dreyfus to be innocent, and 

 .states that another trial is therefore useles.s ... The 

 Germans have inflicted a .severe defeat upon a band 

 of Hereroes ... The TTnited States House of Represen- 

 tatives accepts amendments providing for the free 

 entry to the States of all religious or political fugi- 

 tives ... An extension of the cable line from San Fran- 

 cisco to Yokohama is completed ... The Mikado of 

 Japan and President Roosevelt exchange greetings ... 

 The Deutsche Asiatische Bank obtains from the Chinese 

 Grovernment a concession of the right to issue bank 

 note« at Tsingtau, and from other trading centres, 

 from 1907. 



June 29. — A serious disaffection is stated to have 

 been discovered in the crack regiment of the T.sar ... 

 Uneasiness is felt in Sweden at Russia's occupation of 

 the island of Presto, in order, it is .stated, to prevent 

 the smuggling of arms into Finland ... Four of the 



natives concerned in the murder of Captain Bull, in 

 Egypt, are sentenced to be hanged ... A medical staff 

 and escort in German East Africa are stated to have 

 been massacred because of the imposition of a hut tax. 



June 30.— The Imperial family in Russia remove 

 from Peterhof to Tsarskoe-selo on account of the dis- 

 covei-y of a plot to destroy them. ... The natives con- 

 cerned in the Egyptian affray are executed ... A dele-- 

 gate from the Progressive Party on the Rand, de- 

 cides to visit England ... A tribute is paid to the late 

 Mr. Seddon in the British House of Lords ... The Bri- 

 tish Government decides to appoint a royal commis- 

 sion to make inquiries into the condition in the con- 

 gested districts of Ireland . . A panic takes place in 

 Jewish quarters in New York, on account of a mis- 

 understanding as to the medical inspection of children 

 in .schools. 



July 2. — A proposal is made by a syndicate to make a 

 railway to Port Darwin ... Two carpenters in Paris are 

 sentenced to five years' imprisonment on charges of 

 manufacturing bombs ... Sen.siitional .statements are 

 made about the sale of naval plans to foreign powers 

 in French new.spapers ... An earthquake shock is felt 

 in England ... The late M. Georges Montefiore has 

 bequeatlied £100,000 for the prevention of the spread 

 of consumption ... The locked-out bricklayers in Aus- 

 tria liave been given an immediate 15 per cent, rise in 

 wages, and promised a further increase in May, 1907. 



July 3. — An English express train is derailed be- 

 tween Devonnoii: and London. Twenty-eight lives are 

 lost ... A Meat Inspection Bill passes the American 

 Senate. President Roosevelt congratulates the Sen- 

 ate ... A new in.stitution has been formed under the 

 name of the BritLsh Empire Club as a memorial to the 

 late Sir R. Herbert, formerly Premier of Queensland ... 

 The death is announced in his 77th year of Sir Wilfrid 

 Lawson. 



July 4. — Six hundred Zulus are killed in a fight 

 near Noode.sberg ... A stormy scene is enacted in the 

 Russian Duma. General Pavaloff is attacked, and 

 compelled to leave the Chamber ... The Duma adopts 

 a Bill abolishing capital puni.shment. 



July o. — It is stated that tlie Russian Government 

 will facilitate the granting of land to peasants ... 

 Italy is stated to have taken definite steps towards re- 

 ducing armaments ... It is .stated that Japan intends 

 to .seize the Manchurian railway as far north as Har- 

 bin ... The amalgamation of the United Kingdom 

 Temperance Institution and the Star Life Assurance 

 Society is announced. 



July 6. — MLss Kenney, the Suffragist, is sent to gaol 

 a second time ... The commi.s.>*ion appointed to iiuaiire 

 into the Jewish massacres in Russia, presents a v.iiite- 

 washed report ... Eleven per.sons are killed on a tram 

 track in Penn. (U.S.A.): someone released the car at 

 the top of the mountain line, which was used also as a 

 footwa.y. 



July 7. — The Tsar is reported to have dismissed 

 .some of his highest officers ... Sir Edward Grey speaks 

 warrungly in the House of Commons agairLst any false 

 sentiment regarding the .Egyptian trouble ... A new 

 Cabinet is formed in Spain. 



July 9. — The Premier of Natal declares that the 

 ti^oops in the field will be able to cope with the Zulu 

 rising ... Mr. Justice Grantham is charged with Jewish 

 bias ... Three hundred members of the British House 

 of Commons send a message to the Duma, expre.ssing 

 cordial goodwill. 



