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29. Mr. Balfour received at the Foreign Office a deputation from the International Crusade of Peace, and presented with a memorial heartily approving the Czar's proposal.

— Great discontent expressed by the Italian press of all parties at the Anglo-French agreement with regard to Central Africa, on the ground of its giving up the Tripoli Hinterland to France.

— At Brussels a violent scene took place in the Chamber of Repre- sentatives during the discussion on the expulsion from the country of a French ex-priest who had been lecturing on Socialism at Li£ge.

30. The South-Western Company's steamship Stella from South- ampton to the Channel Islands, with 200 passengers and crew, ran on to the Casquet Bocks, near Alderney, in a dense fog, and seventy-five persons were drowned.

— The Earl of Kimberley, K.G., appointed Chancellor of the Univer- sity of London in succession to Lord Herschell, deceased.

— In the University Racquet Match (doubles) played at Queen's Club, Cambridge beat Oxford by four games to three; and in the singles Mr. £. B. Noel (Cambridge) beat Mr. R. A. Williams (Oxford) by three games to love.

— The Porte formally protested against the Anglo-French Agree- ment on the ground that it handed over to France the Hinterland of Tripoli.

— The revenue account for the year showed a net increase in the exchequer receipts of 1,722,189/. over the previous year, or about a million and a quarter above the Budget Estimates. On the other hand Ihere had been an excess of 1,287,000/. in the payments for supply.

3L The American troops after a troublesome advance through the jungle reached Malolos, Aquinaldo's headquarters, and after a slight resistance captured it. The Filippinos, having set the place on fire, withdrew to Calumpit, avoiding a general action.

— The German cruiser Oefion occupied the roadstead of Ngan-tung- wei, near the frontier of Kiang-su, with orders to land men and occupy two frontier towns until China could give guarantees to maintain order in Shan-tung.

— The Paris Figaro commenced the publication of the famous inquiry of the Criminal Chamber into the Dreyfus case. Only fifty copies of the evidence had been printed, which had been delivered with the greatest precaution, and under pledge of secrecy to those concerned. Proceedings were commenced against the publishers, who were fined 500 francs, but nevertheless continued the publication for several weeks.

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L President Kruger visited Johannesburg for the first time since the Jameson raid, and delivered an open-air speech of a conciliatory character to several thousand persons.

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