HOME AND FOREIGN.

Evening Star, Issue 11677, 8 February 1902, Page 6

HOME AND FOREIGN.

“AGIN THE GOVERNMENT.”

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 7. (Received February 8, at 9.20 a.m.) Mr Ward’s success in tie' Down (East) election was due to the Nationalist vote being cast for him. (Received February 8, at 9.25 a.m.) Great Britain and Japan are strenuously combating M. Lesser's (Russian Minister at Pekin) contention that the Manchuria Treaty and the Russo-Chinese Bank agreement are not related. The inhabitants of the Danish West Indies are to be allowed two years in which to deleave their allegiance to America. The sinking of the Libertador by a Venezuelan gunboat is now denied. A fiesh descendant of the Wahabi rulers has captured Riad, the capital of Nejd, whose Ameer had withdrawn from the vicinity of Koweyt in order to defend his own kingdom. The Arab dhows in the Persian Gnlf are using the French flag as a cover for their slave trade. The steamer Kansas, from Boston to Liverpool, landed eighteen cases of smallpox, which liad occurred amongst the cattlemen on board. CONSTANTINOPLE, February 7. Mahmoud Pasha, a son-in-law of the Sultan, who fled from the kingdom on being suspected of intrigues against the Throne, has been sentenced to death in default of appearing to answer the charges preferred against him.