CONTINENTAL AFFAIRS.
By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (reuter’s telegrams.) Berlin, February 8. An electoral meeting convened by Socialists was being held at Stettin, in Pomerania, last night, when troops arrived, and the meeting was called
upon to disperse. The order was not obeyed, and the military thereupon charged the gathering, and in the melee-several Socialists were wounded. The police to-day effected the arrest of 24 Socialists at Magdeburg, in Saxony. Brussels, February 8. In the Chamber of Representatives to-day, the Minister of War asked for a military credit of twenty millions of francs (i 800,000) for increased armaments in Belgium. Rome, February 8.
Signor Depretis, President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of the Interior, has tendered his resignation to the King, owing to the difficulties he has experienced in conducting business in Parliament since the reverses recently met with by the Italian forces at Massowah, in Abyssinia. Paris, February 9. In the Chamber of Deputies yesterday a credit of eighty-six million franes for military purposes was adopted.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 780, 11 February 1887, Page 17
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