EUROPEAN TOPICS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXIX, Issue 9985, 14 March 1893, Page 5

EUROPEAN TOPICS.

[Special to Press Association.] THE PANAMA. CANAL ENQUIRY. VIENNA, March 12. It is reported that the Emperor intends to abdicate in favour of Archduke Charles Louis. BERLIN, March 12. The Catholic members of the Reichstag claim that the rejection of the Military Bill is owing to the exclusion of the Jesuits from Germany. Chancellor von Caprivi declined to accept the present peace strength of the army. PARIS, March 12. At the Panama Canal enquiry, Madame Oottu stated that the Government was alarmed at the widespread effects of the trial, and hsd attempted to purchase the silence of the Directors by promising to put a stop to the proceedings, and it also endeavoured to obtain documents containing damaging evidence against the Deputies of the Right. The latter charge was virtually admitted. BERLIN, March 13. It is considered certain that the Reichstag will reject the Army Bill and dissolve. PARIS, March 13. M. Saindury, Chief of Police, has resigned, and it is hoped that M. Bourgeois will reconsider his intention of resigning his portfolio. Meanwhile M. Deville is acting as Minister for Justice. Thera is no political crisis. At the trial of Directors of the Panama Canal Company for bribery, M. Targe, Minister of the Interior in 1887, gave evidence that Ferdinand de Lesseps vigorously threatened the Government with the Press unless the Panama lottery loan was sanctioned.