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,-,,_ V*- r-si rid 1 r'3K $$ I J- %m 0 ji?* ammvwa^mn&mmmm fWP Partizans of Fallieres and Downer Have* Their Preliminary Skirmish. New York Herald 8peoial Service. By J. Cornefy. Paris. Dec. 16.The first preliminary skirmish in the presidential election, which takes place Jan. 18, occurred last Tuesday. The republicans, radicals radieal-socialists and socialists, who form what is called the "block," whereon relied the Waldeck-Eousseau and Combes cabinets, intend to make the president of the senate, M. Fal lieres, their 'candidate for the presi dency of the republic, in succession to -M. Loubet, who misses no opportunity to affirm his resolution to retire. The moderate republicans, styled pro gressists, united with a few of M. Doumer's radical friends and in coali tion with the entire reactionary right, ivtend to vote for M. Doumer. The aim of the first part}' is to give M. Loubet a successor who resembles *"him. The object of the second is to swerve the republic to Cesarism. The Secret Ballot. The present voting system, being se cret, admits every species of coalition and consequently of vote. Some per sons have thought that if the voting for the presidential election were pub lic, the republicans would not dare vote for the same candidate as the right on account of their electors. Hence arose the proposition to make the presi dential vote public. As this publicity was to overcome M. Doumer's candida ture, the partizans of whom are ex tremely active, it is natural that M. _Doumer's supporters opposed it and in sisted upon the secret ballot. Issue Was Joined. Workingmen's Pensions. W*"^ WV..*^.."gUt '.^W^ife On Tuesday the two parties joined issue for the first time. It was legard ing the proposition asking the govern mpiit not to prorogue the chamber until* it had discussed the publn- vote. M. Fallieres' partizans were worsted and M. Doumer's supporters obtained a ma lority of six. This is the first time in six years that the majority has ceased to belong to republicans without admixture. One may deduce that M. Doumer has a ma jority of six votes in the chamber. That docs not mean to say, however, .that he will be elected president of the republic, foi, in the senate, the major ity which voted separation of church and state has 76. That vote may be regarded as an indication of the purely republican majority. Tn this case M. Fallieres' majority in congress would be 76, less than six votes of the newshe majority in the chamber that is to say, 70 votes. But that the vote of the chamber pro duced a grext effect, was proved the very next day at the banquet of the Republican Alliances, whereof M. Car riot is president. When all the speak ers insisted on the necessity of main am me. aJiiraciinstituting-tha.' 'Jble kJ fhey rightly said reconstitute,'' for as *i matter of fuct, the "block" has been destroyed byl the chamber. It must not be forgotten, either, that the early days of January one third )f the senate will be renewed and that hese elections may modify the senato ial majority and consequently the rresidential election. The last days of the session have been -msy ones, tho the chamber was unable examine the budget in due time. On he other hand it adjourned the pro-in losal to repurchase the western railway, vhich would cost the taxpayers the nice mme of $800,000,000. It adjourned this until after the pro -nulgation of the n"aw on workmen's lensions and that promulgation is not et near. The deputies appear to real ze their inability to settle the question ind they scarcely meet in sufficient lumbers to conduct discussion. The vorkmen 's pension's may suffer the same ate as the repurchase of the Western ailway. There has been another scandal in the hamber regarding the British diplomat note which was alleged to have been ommunicated to Berlin by one of the enc ministers. The fireworks failed go off. M. Eouvier was able to put lis foot upon it. IOUSE PROBLEM NOW FOR BRITISH CABINET ew York Herald Speoial Service. London, Dec. 16.The fog and the iolitical situation combined have exer 'ised a paralysing effect on matters jocial, as far as London ist concerned, nd the're is no disposition to enter on resh engagements. Everything in thereport ray of private entertainment is being ut off until after the general election. The Daily Mail publishes an article the difficulties many have to solve i finding London mansions commodious nough for entertaining on the grand cale expected of them. After remark ig it is an amusing and a certain fact s_Jiat several social leaders by no means nknown to fame, two of them with ames well known to history, are lunged in indecision as to which polit al banner should claim their adher ace the author of the article proceeds: "Some members of the liberal party ave the most hospitable intentions for he next year, but at present the chief eed is for mansions spacious enough to ccommodate the immense number of uests who flock to the official enter ainments." lEN'S GARB BRIGHTER BLACK TOO DREARY ew York Herald Special Service. London, Dec. 16.No longer satisfied -itha dreary black coat, men at last, ccording to the Tailor and Cutter, are eginning to adopt clothing of a bright olor and vivid patterns. Especially is us the case with sporting men, owing the fashion set by the king. During is majesty's recent stay at Sandring am he a'dopted a very showy style of xess, consisting of a scarlet Tarn 'Shanter, a drab norfolk jacket and nickers, and brightly colored hose. Efforts to relieve the sombreness of lien's clothing has been especially di pcted toward the production of stylish ancy vests, and particular attention ias been paid to buttons on these gar lents, the tailor and jeweler having 4ed to outdo each other in the beauty their production, CABL E DISPATCHE S FRO LI r-in#Ti A I 1A11 .n. *^vvvvT\Vvtyvx3E3rax3R)Byxxxv* flKx*xAA.x*iwtx.AX****AA*****A*a ijMflwxvxxra!*KT^^twxwiisw!wn MAEQUIS EIF0N, Lord of the Privy Seal, BEAUTY PEST FAD OF THE English Society Women Forsake Bridge in Pursuit of Good Looks. Journal Special Service. London, Dec. 16.The Queen1, the leading Eng'ish journal of fashion, has the following to say: "Ping pong and bridge have had their day and now the fashion of the hour is to be beautiful. Good looks heve become a necessity rather than a luxury, the rule rather than the exception ami because of this a whole army of beauty doctors, complexion specialists and teachers of physical culture have sprung up to supply what may be needed towards this almost compulsory end. "The women of today must be beau tiful. There is a legend to the effect that she spends eighteen hours out of the twenty-four in trying to accom plish this much-desired effect. "Her beauty sleep must, they say, last for twelve hours with an hour in the middle of the day for repose, and another for health exercises while her swimming bath, her face massage, her hairdresser, her manicure and dress makers absorb the rest. "Her most valued friend, say the cynics, is her doctor her chief amuse ment is her diet. She suffers to be boau tiful they say in jest, but in reality realizes that she is only beautiful wl en she has suffered, because in suffer ing alone she finds her soul.'' IN GAELIC REVIVAL Books Necessary to Insure Suc cess of the Gaelic League Movement. By Timothy O'Connor. Journal Special Service Thli TW ifi Tnt^w ir, thoTriah language continues an absoibing topic versity, has just delivered a lecture on1 versant with ,the living lan'guage, it also behooved him to know something of the origin and history of that lan guage. Dr. Meyer pointed out that there was a crying need of books and libraries thru out Ireland. It was his firm belief that unless such as these needs were speedily supplied and the whole move ment put on a deeper an'd scholarly basis it would not make the steady and lasting progress which they all desired it should make. The Land Problem, The report of Bev. Dr. Kilkenny, M. P.. at the annual meeting of the that time, tho the landlords were not in many instances paid off, and this opportunity was unique for several rea sons. First, because of the scale on wh,ch this' vita, change was taking FINDS WALLS OF GOLD AND MILLIONS IN. SIGHT Mine Owner in Manitou District, Makes Richest Discovery Ever Known. WIST HUSH OVER. ,._^ i 31 *~*93 i l- FHENGH PRESIDENGYii "w Sat 1 LORD ELGIN, Seoretary of State for the Colonies, A Jf A AU A* '.I i JOHN BTTBNS, President of the Local Government Board. THEIR BRIDAL TOUR THRU ASIA'S PERILS Count de Lesbain and His Bride Braved Terrors of Cen tral Asia. scholastic Ireland. Dr. Kuno Meyer,'perished on a terrible upland mud Z A professor of Celtic in the Liverpool uni-. gateau, 19,800 feet high, only four of the subject, -The Making of the Irish Thence the count and his wife struck Lan'guage.'' Dr. Kuno Meyer in his ad- south to lake Pingri Nor and down to dress said that among the many great the Sang Chu river, avoiding Shigatse Gaelic league had set before it none coming straight to Gyantse. They I could claim an equal importance with found the people of Tibet entirely the revival of Irish, both as a spoken friendly and attribute their extraordi- tongue and as a literary language. Now, nary success to the visit of the recent while every member of the league was British military expedition, doing his best to make himself con-1 Irish Agricultural Organization society, predictions come true 1906* will be a contains many interesti'n'g observations, year of absorbing interest. Some of the more remarkable prophecies are as follows: JanuaryA series of railway and shipping disasters. FebruaryDisasters to vessels of war and "large floating city." MarchReduction in income tax ta fheir 'transport animals surviving. I and truly national obiects which the on the route from India to Lhasa* and ut OLD MOORE, PROPHET, PREDICTS DISASTERS anent the land problem of Ireland. The in part says: "The unique opportunity afforded for the spread of co-operative propaganda by the creation of a peasant proprietary following so quickly on the establish ment of the agricultural department two-wheeled exercisers, presumablx bus been referred to. The process has bicycles been unexpectedly rapid during the last AprilRemoval of professional beg- twelve months, thousands of tenants' Says First Two Months of 1906 WiU Be Marked by Casualties. Journal Special Service. London, Dec. 16.If "Old Moore's" ar 8 from streets having practically become owners In man to diethe after "checkere an some Irc l^rand'ic"Sland place second, because of the serious( November"Sacialupheaval" obstacles in their path which were Turkey, thereby removed, and third, because of the urgency* of the need that had thus arisenfor it was hardly too much to say that agricultural organization was' claimed to be highly satisfied with his not merely opportune at the moment all predictions for 1905. "My greatest over the country, but was an absolute i triumph,'' he said, was. in July, necessity of the time, especially in con1- iriMj will absorb four derelict ones, In an interview "Old Moore when I said in my prophecy: gested districts or where uneconomicj A disaster is foreshadowed to a holdings prevailed. As to the scale of i large war vesselwarship would seem this operation I need only say that as' to .be indicatedflying the stars and it is of national proportions it behooves 8tPes. the nation itself and the government to 'e explosion on the United States weieh well the consequen-ces and the W^ By Publisher*' Fresa. Winnipeg, Man., Dec. 16.Anthony Blum of Boston, principal owner 'of the Laurantin mine, in the Manitou district, 200 miles east of here, unearthed walls of gold which assay $300,000 to the ton. There are millions in sight. It is the richest discovery ever known in gold mining. He spent ten years off and on in tfte district and has made much money. 0 responsibilities involved." ^-t^ Then g^*^ N Sebtion.^^ '^^^^THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL, *3 ?~~i, v*-, Journal Special Servioe. Calcutta, Dec. 16.Additional reports from the Count de Lesbain, of the French legation at Peking, and hisinterested bride, who recently arrived at Darjell ing from Tibgjt, indicate that he andMaud his bride have established a record ip. central Asian travel. On their honey moon they went north from Peking to Minghai, and thence north again, dis covering two buried cities. They trav eled to the Gobi desert, discovering a new lake, and returned southwest to Liang Chow, whence they circuited on the north the lake of Koko Nur incentury Tibet, and arrived at lonely Tsaidan salt swamp. The daring explorers reached the sources of the Yang Tse an river Dublin, Dec. 16.interest in the Irish hardships, and at one time saw no hu-i ma le prominentdstates what stormy life." MayRoyal personage to die. AugustWorld-wide philanthropist to die. SepteniberHome rule for England, Bennington was a remarkable which the government was defeated. "For this month I foretold the Countess of Shrewsbury's actions by saying that a case at the law courts would cause much washing of aristo cratic linen in public." POTATO /SHOW IN LONDON. London, Dec. 16.Eon an event of its kind the national potato show just opened at Horticultural hall is attract ing a good deal of attention. One won derful exhibit is a basket of 222 po tatoes, weighing 43 pounds, taken from a single root, ^j-v "V SIB ROBEBT T. BEID, Lord High Chancellor. 3 5 si 33 Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 5 S 2 A .$"- TAA A A.* AAAAA AAA AAAAAAA tXXW* WtTrtVV'fntVXT TV* f'fWVWyVft VV "f'rCT V''"fTV VVfVI VTTW'f X9RT3!J| $ 2 SIR EDWARD GRAY, PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE NEW BRITISH CABINET NEW NORSK QUEEN RECALLS ANCESTOR Queen Maud's Reign Begun Just 500 Years After Another English Queen. Journal Special Service, ,t Christian'ia, Dec. 16.It is regarded as an interesting coincidence by those in the problems surrounding the Norwegian, ^u^essjon, aD endured ifn incredible vthat red to onye,of the kingauspices Wa Queen begins hetf/'rtf&wlence in Christi ania exactly 500 yealw from the date on which another Englu^tt princess. Philip pa, the daughter offHfcnjgwIV,, was mar-I of Denmark which Queen Maud takes up her home] in Norway are certainly much happier than those which attended the fifteenth queen. Then Norway had fal len on the unfortunate and the inglo rious days of the Kalmar union. Now she has vindicated, more fully ever before" being for fifty days. They nearly! rnt* 0^t he7individua1ityTsVthan tat separate 1 v Mm Ha ***m soe re/d oy.QI TPi rT n ^4 tal B a reJ1VC S mQ vir l-h i a tT ?k which her kin+gel has chosen, old .epoc ""J*?! connection Danis whene lashMargaret 'Noiwav i existed a distincte Haakot VI., st5 lirectl whossfa marriag famous Dentaar under the Kalmar union, was the last king to rule over a separate Norway. Now another Haakon ascends the Nor wegian throne to rule over a country which is similarly independent, but which has long ago eagerly adopted all of the elements of modern life. Queen Maud Brilliant. It is an open secret among the mem bers -of royalty in Copenhagen and Lon don that Queen Maud was regarded as the brightest, intellectually, of the children of Kin'g Edward VII. She now speaks excellent Danish, and this will make it' comparatively easy for her to master Norwegian, for the two lan guages are similar many respects. The third member of the royal family, the Crown Prince Olav, hitherto Prince Alexander, is an amusing little boy, who already speaks English an'd Danish well and who can already express his wishes in French. MOTOR BOOTS, NEW -INVENTION IN PARIS Paris, Dec. 16.Parisians were star tied yesterday by seeing a big-booted a DecemberNew newspapers which SnamP8, *p*iWP("ip""pp JAMES BBYOE, Chief Secretary for Ireland. JOHN MORLEY, Secretary of State for India. 4 :r\ WOMAN AS JOCKEY RIDES TO VICTORY Rare Sporting Event at Epsom With Man Rider the Loser. Kew York Herald Special Service. London, Dec. 16.One of these rare sporting events in which a woman pits her jockeyship against that of man, ocr eurred at Epsom this week. Mrs. Aggio, wife of a well-known veterinary sur geon, and W. Wyatt of Epsom made a match to ride a race over a mile course on the flat for $500 a side. The eondi tio we iha underj li Mrsr.e Aggio riding her 6-year-old th owner 8 shoul mar Jf sixteen chase, rode a good second to her hus band feren rank Elysee and thence to the Bois Another curiouys Boulogne at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour. It was Constantini, in- preeedenc ial an tio ac ventor of motor boots, displaying his priestly garments,e will new footwear. ately operative. It is pointed out that The boots resemble tiny automobiles, KAISEB. GLAD-OF PEACE. a a fifteen inches long, fixed on highjaoots. contracting "parties in,a marriage, when Each has four rubber-tired wheels eight Berlin, Dec. 16.Emperor Wiliam. in a speech at a reception at Brunswick today, said: "I am bappy because it has been possible for me toYork, keep peace for the German empire until the 1 present time,'" ^^K*-* *5sh mm* Sunday/ December 17* 1905 hands, and Mr Wyatt a gray gelding of fourteen hands. The latter animal won in Ireland and also at Melton Mowbray. Mrs. Aggio went to" the scales at eleven stone and Mr Wyatt at nino stone six pounds. With the weights CAPITAL S ?IO THE WORLD wx#rt-vwrM%w.vTM%'Mvriw.mm%'mm m--r9.v^%rf-%rjptxvxmmi.v/x.r^%^// DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, President of the Board of Trade. ,ff.r 'j A A". ,f.- A t'f f.%*'*%&'* t.CX.C: DANGERS SEEN IN NEW SIMPLOW TUNNEL High Temperature and Flow of Water Seen as Grave Menaces. The event recalls other achievements structs its realization will incur the of women in the saddle. Perhaps the condemnation of humanity, most notable of recent years was when, The appointment of Lord Edmond last spring, Mrs. Frank Buckland, at Fitzmaurice as under secretary of for the East Kent point-to-point to steeple sign affairs^an appointment foretold OVER PRECEDENCE First Question from Separation Law Relates to Place of Clergy. New York Herald Special Servioe. Paris, Dec. 16.No cataclysm has fol lowed the promulgation of the law for the separation of church andrfbateinin France. The law comes into force the Ifirst day of 1906, but as the churches are given a year in which to reorganize themselves, the change will not be greativ felt at first. Cunously enough, the first question [which has come up for settlement under With Small AutO On Each Foot, new conditions concerns the somewhat decide for war. This fear is intensified [trumpery one of precedence. What by the fact that Eussia, the ally of Inventor Speeds on the 'rank, it was asked, would the repre- France, lies in a welter of anarchic im sen,tative of the clergy take on official BOUievaras. occasions? The decree of Messider, !who regulated the ceremonial of official Journal Special Service. I receptions, gave the clergy in their dif- ove no whizzing along the Avenue desc considered as having a locusr standi. th the offi ar longer result0 i tha code of the separa- ntharticlbecom ilnwearing theimmedi- penal relating tto illega of the church does not require that the 0f a inches in diameter. Accumulators are parents as does the civil law, the sepa- carried in a belt. They transmit by ration will afford a loophole of escape wires one and one-fourth horsepower to for such persons as want to get married each motor. The motors can be run at in opposition to their stern, but pious a speed ranging from six to thirty miles parents. an hour. Each boot weighs sixteen^ Up to the present the priests were pounds, but as the feet are not lifted up, not allowed to perform the religious the weight does not matter. ceremony until the civil contracts had Constantini claims to have traveled been gone thru before a mayor. Under several hundred miles with them. He the new regime of the separation of the intends to travel from Paris to St. Pet- church and state, the priests recover ersburg on them. When asked what tlieir liberty of action and will be able would happen if one motor started at to make would-be brides and bride the rate of six mites an hour and the other at the rate of thirty miles an hour,*he became diffident and declined to discuss the subject. shall have the consent of their grooms happy without inquiring as to whether they have previously paid a visit to-the maire. OSI.EB SAILS FOB AMERICA. Liverpool, Dec. 16.The Cunard line steamer Caronia, which sails from here today for New takes among her passengers Dr. William Osier, regius professor of medicine at Oxford, and Mm. Osier. ,/j *h $ Journal Special Service. Geneva, Dec. 16.The official report on the condition of the Simplon tunnel, W which has just been made public, states|o that the temperature in' the center is still 113 degrees and that boiling water continues to flow at the rate of about seventy-eight gallons per second. The engineers agreed that masonry was necessary in the central roof of the tunnel, as they doubted whether the natural vault would bear the heat and etformous pressure of 2,145 yards of the mountain. The question has been raised whether the masonry will prove a suffi cient support or whether it will melt and by its added weight bring about a catastrophe. Still another danger has been noted. As the mountains have become covered with snow the volume of water in thebe tunne shows a tendency to increase. Piles of rails, sleepers, telephone and telegraph wires are lying at both en trances of the tunnel and in spite of all of the optimistic reports the first train 'is not likely to steam thru the tunnel before the last of next summer. BRITAIN SEEKS TO SEAL UP GERMANY Sir Edward Grey's Is the Task to Avoid Provoking the Kaiser. Special Cable to The Journal. London, Dec. 16.Sir Edward Grey is confronted alUhe outset of his career as foreign secretary with the gravest kind of an international problemhow to realize King Edward's scheme of surrounding Germany with a ring of allied nations pledged to peace without so much in his favor, odds of two to I provoking the fatherland to a declara one were laid on the man's mount, but tion of war. Both the king and thethe to the surprise of most of the specta-1 new foreign secretary are determined tors Mrs. Aggio won easily, sending her to persevere in this scheme. They hold mare to the front soon after the start She made nearly all the running and scored a decisive victory by eight lengths that it is devoid of all purpose to harm or to hamper any nation, that it is dedi cated to international amity and equal ity and that, therefore, whoever ob months agomeans that Lord Lans downe's policy, which is the king's policy, will be continued. For Lord Edmond, brother of the former foreign secretary, is saturated with the ideas and .policies of the late administration. Above him stands Sir Edward Grey, who is pledged to Lord Lansdowne's diplomacy, and above Sir Edward is Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who is the willing servant of the king in foreign affairs. Well informed men knew that King Edward preferred Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman to Lord JEfcosebery as pre mier, because his majesty was aware that the former would be the more tractable instrument in carrying out the royal peace plans. Well informed men also know that when certain influential politicians tried to forestall the ap pointment of Lord Lansdowne 's brother the under secretaryship of foreign affairs, the king interfered in favor of that statesman. These facts are important because they mean the prosecution of the policy which Germany views with uneasiness and which some observers fear may lead the kaiser and PrincevonBuelow to potence and that if Germany expects ever to draw the sword in behalf of a larger and freer empire now is the time to do it. DUOAL PALACE IS GIVEN TO COLLEGE Trentham Hall Is Abandoned by the Duke of Sutherland. New York Herald Special Service. London, Dec. 16.The Duke of Suth erland has given his palatial seat, Trentham hall, which is the Italian palace mentioned by Lord Beaconsfield in his novel, Lothair'' to the Stafford shire county council, for the purposes of higher education, as difficulties had arisen in connection with the North Staffordshire college scheme and this gift obviates them. Six months ago the duke definitely an nounced that the continued pollution of the river Trent, which flows past the hall, made his Staffordshire home impos sible as a residence, and Trentham hall was closed, the gardens were abandoned and the country wondered whdt would be the fate of the beautiful domain. Trentham is a magnificent ancient am ily seat. It was part of the plunder of monasteries at the reformation and came into possession of the Levessons, who were the forerunners of the pres jent Leveson-(Jower family. mmmimmmmmmmm*i**immWm} mw.ym KAISER READY FDR' WAR WITH FRANCE ?t \iit Slippers VH Germany Has Army and Navy Is in Shape for Moroccan Break. .jy Special Cable to The Journal. Berlin, Dec. 16.Germany's army and navy are ready to strike France the I moment the republic attempts at the if? s* I international conference at Madrid in January, to enforce its claims to su- ?f premacy in Morocco. This is the snb-x merely given the impression here that while the letter of the French schemes has been altered the spirit remains the same that is, France still lays claim' to an international mandate in Morocco and that it aims at securing highly special rights there. Against this policy Germany protests and will con-^ tinue with all the force at its command. The same foreign office official contin ued: "Germany has the right, as a signa tory of the Madrid convention of 1880, as well as because of its commercial in terests, to stand guard against the dan ger of an eventual French protectorate, in Morocco. When Foreign Minister Delcasse affected to treat Germany aj$ a negligible quantity in Moroccan poli tics and proceeded to lay the founda tions of a protectorat there, we ob jected an insistedrJthae the regulation was not the pre rogative of France. England, Spain or Italy or of any combination of those powers that participated in the Madrid conference. "'Now M. Delcasse has gone and the French press maintains that the yellow book proves that his policy has gone, too. If that is so, if M. Delcasse's sue cessore in office do not cherish secretly and we have no means of knowing whether they do or nota desire to dis turb the status quo in Morocco, Ger many will be gratified and satisfied. We have recognized France's special position in Morocco so far as co cerns the Algerian frontier, but how widely those frontier rights extend, remains to determined. We certainly will not permit them to be construed as em bracing the whole of the Morocian empire. ''Germany is exercising no pressure to influence the votes at the coming conference. We want only that each affai a cda a ,nB Moroc ower shall vote in its own interests, is Germany's sole purpose to holtl open the rich Moroccan market to the enterprise of all nations, without dis crimination, and to crush forever the possibility of France's converting tha* country into a second Tunis. If the maintenance of this principle results in the disturbance of European peace, the responsibility will not lie on this side of the KhLne. To this extent British fear of Germany's warlike pur poses,' are fully justified." BRITISH OFFICERS' WINE LIST IS CUT Admirals Say the Whisky Hafo Hurts the Naval Efficiency. 5 New York Herald Special Serriee, London, Dec. 16.When &iips belong ing to navies of other countries visit British shores in the future, it looks as if there will not be much of the flow of wine in entertaining afforded by officers, for the admirals have set their faces against the consumption of liquor except in very moderate doses by naval officers. The sea lords assert the daily whisky habit destroys the nerves and quickness of brain and is, in consequence, fatal to the fleet's efficiency. The officers' wine books are being examined and no officer under the age of 20 is permitted to consume spirits of any kind. 4% '5 stance of a vigorous official'statementu^ supplied by an official of the foreign office today. Germany does not regard J*% the French yellow book as an unequiv-r?i ocal indication that France has aban-' doned her pretensions to a preferential, position in Morocco. The book has- t" Here are some values in Slippers that can not be duplicated else where make comparison and see if it isn't so. 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