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, 735

Aden, 729

Afghanistan, 653-662, 737

Africa, East, 861-876; cable connection with, 264

Africa, South. See South Africa

Africa, West, 835-860; cable connection with, 265; liquor traffic, 555; slavery in, 849-854; taxation, 855

Akbar, 624, 688

Alaska boundary dispute, 342

Alfred the Great, 232

Alliance, Anglo-Japanese, 198, 665, 749

Alliances, Dual and Triple, 18

America, South, trade with, 102

America, United States of, 17; education, 64; exports, value of, 77-80; National Debt, 74; naval power, 189, 198; population, 72, 73, 109; trade, 80, 102

Anglo-Japanese alliance, 198, 665, 749

Appeal Court, 48-50

Argentina, 83, 104

Army, 229

Arnold-Forster, Mr., 186, 188, 244

Aubry. Dr. Pierre, 138

Aurungzebe, 628

Australia, 424, 446; cable connection with, 269; defence, 231; federation, 427 et seq., 449, 553; military system, 233-240, 243; progressive legislation, 455; public debt, 453; trade, value of, 54 et seq.; wheat exports, 460

Australia, relations with New Zealand, 475

Baghdad Railway, 733

Balfour, Mr. Arthur, 222, 225

Balfour of Burleigh, Lord, 253

Barnes, Sir Hugh, 725

Barton, Sir Edmund, 240. 427, 429, 431

Beaconsfield, Earl of, 153

Belgium, 231

Board of Trade classification of markets, 86

Bolingbroke, Viscount, 32

Bourassa, Mr. H., 383

Bradley, Mr. A. G., 378

Brazil, 104

Brentano, Ligo, 90

British cotton-growing Association, 123, 879

British Empire, the, 19-28, 215, 817 defence of, 174-196; maintenance, 22 military forces and expenditure, 247 population, 72, 109, 298; trade, 54, 77, 297

British South Africa Company, 573

Browne, Sir J. Crichton, 882

Bryce, Mr. James, 384

Burma, 716-727

Burt, Mr. Thomas, 511

Bussy, 627

Cable codes, 281

Cable finance, 282

Cables, British, 249 et seq.; Canadian, 412

Cairns, Earl, 48

Calwer, Herr Richard, 98

Canada, 35, 351-884, 409; agriculture, 385-402; cable connection with, 250, 412; defence, 187, 230; education. 361; federation, 405, 556; French-Canadians in, 35, 340, 375, 381, 420; imports, 118; interests in the Pacific, 416-418; military system, 240, 371; population, 359; preferential tariff, 105, 379, 405; revenue, 358; trade, value of, 54 et seq.

Canadian Pacific Railway, 856, 405, 410, 416

Canning, Lord, 647

Cape Colony, 563, 577, 587; trade returns, 590

Cape to Cairo Railway, 865

891