Review of Reviews, 1/10/13. 



PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 



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CONSCRIPTION IN FRANCE. 



The strong feeling against the intro- 

 duction of the three-year service for 

 conscripts in France has resulted in 

 serious disturbances. This measure has 

 been forced on the country despite a 

 very active opposition in Parliament. 

 The whole thing is an instructive 

 object-lesson of the helplessness of 

 even a large minority when policy dic- 

 tates increased military activity. Riots 

 have occurred in Paris and other large 

 cities on the occasion of military 

 tattoos which the anti-militarists have 

 decided to make impossible. Spain 

 continues to have trouble in her sphere 

 of influence in Morocco. The ubiquit- 

 ous Raisuli is again in the field, and 

 has been defeated the usual number of 

 times. Still the Spanish forces are in 

 constant difficulties, and convoys are 

 often cut up. The Moors fighting in 

 their hills are almost unsubduable, and 

 have cost Spain much in money and 

 men during the last fifty years. Thus 

 far France has been fortunate in her 

 Moroccan venture, but should trouble 



occur will find it a much more difficult 

 land to subdue than she did Algeria, 

 where she is now supreme. 



THE CELESTIAL REPUBLIC. 



The revolutionary movement against 

 Yuan-Shi-Kai and the present Govern- 

 ment of China started by Dr. Sun-Yat- 

 Sen and other earnest reformers has 

 been crushed. Some of the fighting ap- 

 pears to have been furious, and great 

 losses were experienced by both sides. 

 Dr. Sun in now in Japan, and is not 

 likely to be idle there — in fact, Japan's 

 attitude towards China over the Nan- 

 king incident, the murder of some 

 Japanese, would certainly seem to have 

 some ulterior motive behind it ; it is 

 that of one trying to fasten a quarrel. 

 There is little chance of Japan having 

 much say in China whilst Yuan is at 

 the head of affairs ; but the Southern 

 Chinese, dissatisfied with his autocratic 

 methods, would no doubt offer great 

 inducements to be liquidated in the 

 event of victory in order to secure 

 Japanese assistance. The danger of 



;,.] A WARNING TO ' UNA. [Tokyo. 



While assassins are at their work, the Powers are having little games of their own in 



China! Awake, poor benighted China! 



