GENERAL NEWS.
EUROPEAN AND FOREIGN. Loxdok, Sept. IC. The Russian, French, and Turkish Ambassadors have had interviews with Lord Salisbury. Sept. 17. Sir Charles Diike considers the fleet and army weak to the highest degree, and that it would be dangerous for England to in terrene in Turkey alone. Shipowners are refusing to revise the agreement made in September. 1889, and the dockers threaten to strike again. Owing to the rise in the bank rate ouly 70 per cent of the six million loan, placed on the market by China, has been subscribed. Washington, Sept. 16. Commander Ballington Booth has become a Presbyterian minister in Chicago. Cairo, Sept. 17. It is reported from Fereig that two of the enemy's beats have been captured on the Nile and the Dervishes dispersed. The Egyptian troops are advancing on Burgueh. St. Petebbcbgh Sept. 17. Government will submit a number of German products to a special tariff as a reprisal for the recent taxation imposed by Germany on Russian formers.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 124, 18 September 1896, Page 3
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