EUROPEAN TOPICS.
I Special to Press Association.] MADRID, August 4, The Spanish Government has agreed to offer no opposition to the occupation of the Solomon Islands by Great Britain. BERLIN, August 4. The German Government intends to construct a military port at the mouth of the Elbe to protect the canal connecting the Baltic with the North Sea. The cost is estimated at three and a half millions, August 5, The German Anti-Slavery Committee has been wound up. It is alleged that two million marks have been muddled away. * ST PETERSBURG, August 4. The Russian Press fears that the war of tariffs will excite both Germany and Russia to dangerous antagonism. The tariff war between Russia and Germany is increasing ia bitterness, and the tension has become bo acute as to threaten a disturbance of political relations. The Russian Government is sending envoys to Berlin to treat for a settlement upon a workable basis. August 5. Russia proposes to construct a new military railway to tbe Austrian frontier.
NAPLES, August 5, Cholera is spreading in the City.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10109, 7 August 1893, Page 5
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