FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVI, Issue 14912, 3 December 1912, Page 7

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

PERSIAN GUN-RUNNING,

NOTHING OFFICIAL KNOWN. Press Association —By Tel —Copyright. LONDON, Dec. 1. The Admiralty has no information regarding the projected visit of a French cruiser to Muscat. STRAITS OF GIBRALTAR. TO BE FREE TO ALT,. PARIS, Dec. 1. The Franco-Spanish Moroccan treaty agrees that neither Power shall erect any fortifications menacing the free passage of the Straits of Gibraltar. THE MEXICAN REBELLION. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. The Mexican situation ,is rapidly growing worse. The rebels are guilty of many excesses, and American troops are likely to bo retained indefinitely on the frontier. AUSTRIAN NAVY~ GROWING VIENNA, Dec. 1. The third Dreadnought, the Prince Eugene, has been launched at Triesta. THE MONROE DOCTRINE. NO LONGER NECESSARY. NEW YORK, Dec. 1. Referring to the' Right Hon. James Bryce's impending departure, Mr Carnegie says that all Americans should read Mr Bryce's writings on the South American Republics. These established the fact that the Monroe doctrine had fulfilled its mission. With sixty millions of population the republics would die able to protect themselves, .a-elieving the United States of a, great and serious responsibility. Tins should silence the advocates of increased expenditure on the American Army and Navy.

A JAPANESE QUESTION

TOKIO, Dec. 2

M. Uyehara, the War Minister, refusing' to accept the Cabinet's rejection of the Korean military increase, lias notified that he resigns. It is doubtful whether the "Emperor will accept his resignation. CHURCH AND STATE TIFF. NOW WORRIES GERMANY. Received 9.15 p.m., Dec. 2nd. BERLIN, Dec. 2.

The. "Frankfurter Zeitung" states that Dr Hollweig, Chancellor of the Empire, informed a leading Member of, the Centre Party that a recent Papal Encyclical, enjoining German Catholic artisans to belong 'to purely Catholic trade unions represented the limit of interference by the Vatican which could be permitted. A recurrence of such a thing would cause ,the withdrawal of the German Minister from the Vatican. Much interest arises as to the issue, as Dr Hollweig ia dependent on the Catholic vote to combat the Socialists.

Friction has been caused by the Federal Council's rejection of Bavaria's claim to a more liberal interpretation of the anti-Jesuit law.

The "Volks Zeitung-' and " Germania" declare that Catholics will never tolerate the police regime which Prussianised Germany seeks to impose on the Jesuit propaganda.