MISCELLANEOUS.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11966, 20 June 1907, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

London, June 13. At Lord Elgin's initiation the In. temational and Colonial Conference to consider the causation of the Sleeping Sickness, has opened. French and English newspapers unanimously acclaim the Spanish agreement. * Tha^'Matin" declares that it is now almost, ipossible for Germany to make war at sea. The "Times" says that the British reasons tot entering into anancement with Spain are manifest. The routes to India and tbe Far East; in peace or in war pass the coasts and harbours of the waters included in the agreement for hundreds of miles. It was of the highest moment to use these coasts and harbours, and they should remain safe and undisputed in the friendly hands now hnldimthem. We oould not, in our own interests, suffer such possessors to be moisted, whether we do or do not, by formal agreements or not by clear up and proclaim our inevitable policy. Eeuter learns that before the [text of the Anglo-Spanish Note was published it was thought more courteous to communicate to the other Powers the terms of the agreement, to enable them to see that its sole, aim was to consolidate the status quo in the Mediterranean, which had always been a common object of policy of all Great Powers haviDg interests in tbe Mediterranean. Several Social Revolutionaries are taking refuge in Sweden. Some of them, whose arrest M. Stolypin has demanded, attended the recent Social Democratic Conference in London. at^isaa^