EUROPEAN TOPICS.
THE JEWS. WHOLESALE MUEDEE. [Special to Press Association.] [Received August 14, at 10.20 a.m.] LONDON, August 14. Baron Hirach has completed the purchase of land in the Argentine Kepublic for the settlement of Jewish refugees. The price is stated to be a million and a half sterling. He will probably arrange for further settlements in Asia Minor. ST PETERSBURG. August 14. The new naturalisation law requires a knowledge of Russian. Secret orders received at Moscow will have the effect of expelling every Jew from-Eussia. VIENNA, August 14. In the house occupied by the Schneiders, who were arrested on a charge of decoying and murdering servant girls, were found six trunks containing clothes identified as belonging to missing domestics. Sixteen girls have been lost during the past month. PARIS, August 14. The Mayor of Vichy welcomed the Grand Duke Alexia as High Admiral of the Eussian fleet. The forest fires at Toulon have been smothered. ■ BERNE, August 14. The Geographical Conference, now sitting here, has passed a resolution expressing sympathy with Mr Stanley. The Congress recommends the adoption of the English prime meridian. [Received August 16, at 6 p.m.] ST PETERSBURG, August 14. During a review of troops at Moscow, the Czarina ordered the Jewish soldiers to withdraAv, as their presence was offensive to her sight. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 15. The Turkish Government has decided to despatch seven hundred soldiers to Crete to restore order. PARIS, August 14. Eussophile ovations in honour of the visit of the Grand Duke Alexis continue throughout France, The more discreet Paris journals are attempting to check the Eussophile ovations, as they are creating dangerous excitement. VIENNA. August 15. The Vienna Press is urging the European Powers to take action to prevent Russia from forcing Turkey to permit the passage of Russian vessels through the Dardanelles. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aubust 15. The rumoured recognition of Prince Ferdinand as heir to the Bulgarian Throne hy the Porte is officially denied. BERLIN, August 15. The Emperor proposes attending the German and Austrian manoeuvres. [Received August 17, at 12.40 a.m.l August 16. The sale of the Parisian journals La Figaro and Le Matin has been prohibited in Strasburg, owing to a report published by them on the state of the health of the Emperor of Germany-
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9494, 17 August 1891, Page 5
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