EUROPE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 19, 12 May 1909, Page 6

EUROPE.

Airline Express. ine Zeppelin Airship Company has undertaken to establish a regular line from Lucerne to North Germany via Frankfort-on-the-Main, next year. Electrocuted. A boy came into contact with the live rail of a suburban electric railway line’ in Paris, and was killed by the shock. Two would-be rescuers who came to hie assistance were also electrocuted. < Kaiser and Von Baelow, The Kaiser has telegraphed to Prince von Buelow, the Imperial Chancellor, birthday greetings, accompanied by an assurance that the Chancellor possesses his fullest confidence. He also sent the Prince a portrait; bearing the Imperial autograph. Prince von Buelow (Chancellor of the Empire) is determined to resign unless the Reichstag accepts the basis of his financial policy before Whitsuntide (May. 31JFriendly. . Advices from Trieste state that an Austrian squadron is about to visit Kiel (the Baltic headquarters of the German Navy), where fetes have been arranged in its honour under the Kaiser’s presidency. The New Turkey. Hihni Pasha has formed a Cabinet, with Mollah Sahib, a distinguished theologian of liberal views, as Sheik-ul-Islam; Rifaat Pasha as Minister for Foreign Affairs; Ferid Pasha as Minister, for the Interior; Vice-Admiral Alif Hikmet as Minister for Marine, Salisli Pasha as Minister for War; and Naih Bey as Minister for Public Instruction. The commission examining Yildia Palace (ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid’s residence) discovered £450,000 in bank notes, a rosary worth £75.000, and receipts for £1,000,000 deposited in foreign banks. Leading bankers in Berlin state that the Turkish Government is unable to touch the ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid’s money invested in Germany. The Sultan is reputed to have fifty millions invested in other countries, and this the Turkish Government proposed to use to place the nation’s finance on a SQurid basis. Restless Postmen. A fresh strike is impending in the post office at Paris. The Government threatens to prosecute the new trade union of postal employees, and is organising a great pigeon service in the pro-, vinces. Peopling the Commonwealth. Dr. Richard Arthur, M.L.A., of New South Wales, president of the New South Wales Immigration League, had an interview of an hour and a-quarter with Mt John Burns (President of the Local Government Board) last week on the sub-, jeet of emigration to Australia. Mr Burns was very sympathetic, and expressed his readiness to receive a deputation which would suggest methods whereby Britain could assist immigration: to Australia. Mr Burns considers that the colonies

should bear the cost of transport of the youth of Britain to Australia, if ■ears her sons to manhood and then loses their future economic value. Diplomatic Kaiser. The wording of the Kaiser’s telegram to King Ferdinand, recognising Bulgaria s independence, has aroused comment owing to the phrase: “Inasmuch as I am informed that Bulgaria undertakes to secure German material interests in the Oriental railway question, I greet you as King.” Neighboux-ly. The movement to promote personal friendship between the leading men of Britain and France is progressing. M.M. Deleasse, Dmimer, Millcrand, Reinach, Estourvilles, de Constant, and a number of others, dined at the House of Commons last week, with many of the Liberal and Unionist members of tiie British Parliament. Special entertainment committees, numbering 50 each, have been formed in both countries.