EUROPEAN TOPICS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9510, 4 September 1891, Page 5

EUROPEAN TOPICS.

MODERN WARFARE. THE JEWS. [Special to Panes Association.] [Received Sept. 3, at 8 a.m.] . LONDON, Sept. 2, lae will pay a visit to the German Emperor at Stolzenfela, on the Rhine, next spring. She was entertained by the King of Prussia in 1845. BERLIN, Sept. 2. German experts consider that small calibre magazine rifles minimise the advantage of artillery in battle, and it will be necessary to invent a new description of cannon. PARIS, Sept. 2. The head of one of the public departments has been arrested on a charge of stealing £40,000. BUENOS AYRES, Sept. 2. The Argentine press is hostile to Baron Hirsch’s project for settling refugee Jews in that country. [Received Sent. 3, at 8.15 p.m.] ST PETERSBURG, Sept. 2. It is stated that tho Russian Government intends to raise a loan in Paris. A report is current that Russia proposes to exchange Bessarabia, a province of Southern Russia, situated between the Pruth and the Dniester, for.Dobrudscha, an extensive district of Eoumania on the Black Sea. [Received Sept. 4, at 1.20 a.m.] SOFIA, Sept. 3. By mutual agreement Servia and Bulgaria have withdrawn the troops from their respective frontiers. ST PETERSBURG, Sept. 3, Seven thousand Russian Jews have left for England, the United States and Australia. Russia is purchasing Suez Canal bonds with tho view of strengthening French influence, and is also immensely increasing the issue of paper roubles. Jewish emigrants to Palestine are returning to Odessa in a destitute condition. BERLIN, Sept. 3.The Emperor has left for Austria to attend the military manoeuvres. He was accorded au enthusiastic welcome along the route. LONDON, Sept. 3. It is intended to raise an Indian regiment to garrison Hongkong.