Show f FOREIGN NOTES if W V to tl complicity NOT 15 A dispatch from babul aya the general belief in the complicity of yakoob khan in the massacre british embassy galas strength the ameer and hi advisors it i thought did not anticipate a wholesale massacre but only bum chent intimidation to induce major cavagnari to report hia position in babul as untenable affairs however went beyond their control and alpy then acted on the principle that dead men tell no jalcs the troops did not mutiny for arrears of pay but were instigated by their officers working under tho connivance of high authorities for an opinion nov 15 the retirement of the of war id ex peeled he having incautiously expressed his conviction in public that prussia intends to occupy denmark at the first opportunity diphtheria la LONDON nov 15 the diphtheria which for several yeara has made great ravages in russia seems to be gaining more ground the disease gays eremya hay attained such frightful proportions in some regions that the per of mor bality far exceeds that of births in tha small Mer gorod where the epidemic has been raging since 1875 have died from hie chease in 1876 77 there died 1303 persons in odessa since may lait diphtheria has snatched away 76 percept of the children and in iu four months one halt of the infant population fell victims to this disease in and in the vicinity of Pol tavia alio epidemic has been raging for the last two years without interruption in the village of Kap loona in the government of Khar kofi fifty children died iu two weeks in the hamlet of ka more than infants have been carried away by the disease bince january last in addition to a largo number of adults in the village of not one child has escaped the epidemic manipol district shows an average daily death roll of ten more than eleven vast district are afflicted with the disease the mortality both of the youthful and adult population is so enormous that the government has appointed a special commission under M kalcl physia cian in ordinary to enquire into the cause of the and has issued strict injunctions to the local authorities about measures to be adopted for the aret and extinction of the disease nov 15 it is believed the ostensible demands upon turkey concerning effort to restore sir austin La yards supremacy among the porto and hia foreign advisors an incident which is likely to end in tho dismissal of Mii hmoud nedim minister of the interior and the appointment of a ministry possessing sir austin lay arda confidence the governments foreign policy is embarrassed by cabinet dissensions common report indicates sir ash ton cross home missionary as alie chief opponent of Beacons fielda policy gold nov 15 tho standard bays that the quantity of gold for export to america yesterday would have een doubled but for the simultaneous shipment of in vas grioua american bonds ine steamship germanic arrived n new york from liverpool took in gold coin |