BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Grey River Argus, 26 June 1908, Page 1

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

fe! SPE€TAT%R^OyMARY. v*4-i? THE LATE PRIME 'MINISTER. (Fo- week ending 25th April, ic;oS). c \Ve deeply regret to ; record ,t.he death ItSir ij&<inf*o wfidj passed away on Wednesday morning, having survived v his, ■.resignation of the Premiership little more than a fortnight. .'".* Henry Campbell-Ban-;nermr*.i was ik. *ld man as old age is reckc *.:d nowa.-i/s ; but his health had been;' seriously impaired by .thf*. double r sfraiS of nursth&i/his wifeVaff her lalfcijjlness amfrHischargmg the heavy dudes of his office, and he never ' really- recovered from the budden heart seizure by .which he was atUcked at Bristol last October. The record of public service ,\%ich. has, .now been closed is bgth honourable asd;-fii&t4^giiislTed^bu^ the man ancL, the friend was greater tnan the Stales-' n-j-an. Sir Henry Camplell-Bannerman h&d a power ofjnspirihg affeCitioif; ijvh^s colleagues^ denied fto more' fllus-t]-|)US Minis,t^rs. Again,! though essen, trail,* a Jondly, he was also a'-ver-y^ l c6\ira§E<ous man. He was not afraid toj ,e spouse .ocj &4Y*?S?4S"»WP OPI0 P l^ ar Qpfa* iops, but he was never embittered by unpopularity.,,' :;H.is. fr <^sW!H*^o**sP--" [ n^.s, and^¥gJi^j^.^^P»ly pat defied J^^Mf-^m^oM^m' cer.ted r e\Ve-;, 1 mmdt|j^:|e^^ d\; . sc^iptffinpVof f JMjfl-^v s '^ :'s&e most\' I inyuh-^abl(^ita;a^f " kn"-)w ;;• ;the man with \\fem^ypu Quarrel, you „ wsuld nW U^'pao^t/^fficurty how to*"' aW.'r^^s^^ll.'tb.vthipk^u.' though jSf^|v;L^.!? r ci.^l^P^3 b*£a grelMo^^p?' bereaveSert^tb^y en]bancea nis |fpre aiid influen<:fe,-f^» redoubled 'fheJsev6"tioir ets, *M' f £' *JSB&. J&r'' % THE MOIfMANDS. <D'squieting news comes from India, where serious trouble is threatened on th^ Mohmand frontier. It seems that the -Moh-mands rallied to the appealer' fanatical Mullahs during the recent expedition against the Zakka Khel. But before they could come to the help of the Zakka Khel. terms pf peace were' arranged, and the Mohmands remained in possession of their fury, but without any. particular object on which to expend it. They raided British territory and carriec^jf.-jfcj Hindu, and rep- isals.^ecl, t^fuftfief "encounters. It is r.n u|tt|iiai |ine of ths'£eai .for the M °h^ssss' toJ|ake the" ' "field, Vs' the' ;harv^^^?rip«j:iijig. The most seriou3 i Syn> ifti^ ' ** e faiJare of * llc Afghan |auth^^^;s;.to check their countrymen 'wj^^^jiQining the Mohmands in : ck^^^raible numbers. In 1597, as Tr^lpPipnes correspondent at Simla po^-{|;jput, the Amir issued a proclam*||pnV to prevent Afghans crossing tii^Ka^ul River, but this time he is sa|| tovjbe doing nothing; On Sunday'Jasfehe Mohmands fired, on the troop^staTibiVed at Shabkadr, killing a man "of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and a syce and wounding a Sepoy Sir James Willcocks has about three thousand British and native ■troops near Shabkadr, and the Mohmands and their supporters are said to have numbered about ten thousand on Sunday last, and to have been increasing .steadily since. A- curious and' significant fact, according to Tho Time-; correspondent, is the organised supply of food and ammunition, '.which suggests that .-there-,is Cr sbnie control!- . ing power at 'the back-.of the movement superior to the spasmodic managemnt usually displayed by the tribes men. Lord Kitchener and_Lo,rd MiiKp are on their way to Simla.' i !sniping continues, and. Vhere! •'.nave ■been a few casualties. ITALY AND TURKEY: . , The papers of Mondjiy. puhlisKe^ the;. •■ explanation of. a' recen't 'r'atn'er hi'ysterious mobilisation >df"-the i ltalian fleet at' Qaeta ,The;jfleet,- : consisted ofith ree divisions, was intended to. force '. the Sultan to jc.once.de .certain.-, ltalian* demands, particularly '\vith reference to J the establishment of Italian post' office- in Turkish, territory. -The'ltalian Government has decided to open post offices Constantinople, Salonika, Avlona, Smyrna _and . Jprusalem, places ( , where, there,. ,arp man\* Italians, . .and where other b Po*.*,;ers i: already have :post offices. Tlie Po,i*.le, which- some years ago was info-rike^ of this' intension, wj-js.'jtold'-by^thei-Itafian *#*f^we;at>Du. to be opened. On 30th March-, the Porte answered that die of the offices' CGuld' hot 'be alU^wed'^and" •plead^ |the" e*pjs£ißßt3e:x& an "understand" ing that Italy had no right to fsuch ' offices On pth April the Italian Ambassador showed that the right of Italy undei«-ther-most>feT*©ur-e^'sv^--'^*n' clause was incontestable, and he further denied thc existence of any special understanding to the contrary. On 14th Apr'] the Porte-,.. replied peremptorily that the opening Jof ;the offices would be prevented, if. necessary, by armed ' force. Upon 'the provocation, Italy couki take no pother course than to assert her intention of getting her rights j by force. That refusal of the Porte was a violation of treaties.