Show FOREIGN NOTES or W V to h ST petersburg feb 13 general lefTs appointment is baij to have been by his having proposed to conduct the campaign against the Tur comans out going to merv thus avoiding any possible trouble with england BERLIN feb 13 but few clericals and no were present at tho opening of the reichstag particular attention was attracted to the fact that no mention was made of the much talked of austro germani alliance in ali bill feb 12 the preface to the anti socialist renewal bill which will be brought forward in the reichstag Reich stac points to the manifest spread of communist ideas in france and the supposed identity of the communist and socialist armi th armed pact benr in feb 13 semi the aorta german gazette referring lo 10 the warlike war like interpretation by french newspapers of the german army estimates for 1870 ware barely five hundred million franca while they now exceed nine hundred mill ionn the french army is better armed and stronger than alia german army the russian army ha also been considered ably from language of some french monarchical journals it would appear aa certain that if the artiea they represent obtained the power they would immediately plunge france into a war in view af this danger germany though earnestly peace loving must for her own safety follow the example unfortunately set by her neighbors in their immense armaments speech from BERLIN feb 13 the emperors from the further announces an increase of the matrica balory contributions of the various states a loan to meet the most urgent items of expenditure and a modification of the constitution in order to remove some of the disadvantages to the prussian diet from its session being simultaneous with that of abo reichstag in regard to the military law the he is confident that the whole german nation will demand the protection of the national welfare against any danger with the same firmness as the federal government he d dares that the law has kept the socialists within certain bounds but has not succeeded in altogether preventing them ho attainment tain ment of that end is impossible without an extension of the period oration of the law the speech was real rea l by ciuni Stol berc wernigerode gerode who opened the discussion in the name of the emperor LONDON feb 13 in the house of commons odonnell this evening even inc I kb ifa f merit whereupon many members left the house the government benches especially being deserted odonnell inveigled inveighed ed against the brutal conduct of the police during process serving he repudiated for himself and the rest of the home rulers the idea that they wished to abolish lent ho condemned the arbitrary arret made in ireland the amendment ws finally rejected b to 12 and the report of the address agreed to in a bleech on the motion for a second reading of the irish distress bill home rule moved an amendment objecting to the use of church surplus fund for irish relief lib urged that advances should come from the imperial resources rule urged the government to ansti anto works other than sanitary sir stafford northcote concurred in the opinion that the natu roof the works should not be restricted |