FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14359, 3 February 1911, Page 5

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

BRITAIN*AND GERMANY. Press Association —By Tel.—Copyright BERLIN, Feb. 1. Britain and Germany have signed a tr6aty extending to their respective protectorates the provisions of the Anglo-German extradition treaty of 1894. PROGRESS OF GERMANY. The Kaiser in his rescript reviewing Cue celebrations on his birthday, also the anniversary of the Empire, says he hopes that the work created and mightily advanced during the last four decades by the concord of the German princes and peoples, will be further strengthened and developed in peaceful competition with other civilised nations. ; The Unearned Increment Bill was read a third time in the Reichstag. THE OPPOSING TRIADS. , PARIS, Feb. 1. The u Temps" in a pessimistic article on the Triple Entente (Britain, France, and. Russia) says that neither in a military nor a diplomatic way does tlie entente effect what it could and should. In the midst of peace it was not effecting anything, which was a contrast to the sleepless activity of the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria, and Italy). RUSSIA AND PERSIA. TEHERAN, Feb. 1. An ex-chief of police shot the Governor of Ispahan and his nephew. The nephew was mortally wounded, while the condition of the Governor is critical. The murderer took refuge in the Russian Consulate, and his surrender to the authorities was refused. The assassin is a Russian.'