Review of reviews and world's work . award made by Argentina. Hissuccessor, Senor Elidore Villazon, was in-augurated on August 12. Seiior Villazon isbelieved to favor acquiescence in the Argen-tine decision, although it has been unfavor-able to Bolivia. British Politics The questions uppermost in theof the minds of the British people dur-ing the past few weeks havebeen What will the Lords do with thebudget? What effect will the actualflight across the British Channel by theFrench aeroplane of M. Bleriot have uponBritish insularity? and What measure ofsuccess awaits the new military plan formu-
Review of reviews and world's work . award made by Argentina. Hissuccessor, Senor Elidore Villazon, was in-augurated on August 12. Seiior Villazon isbelieved to favor acquiescence in the Argen-tine decision, although it has been unfavor-able to Bolivia. British Politics The questions uppermost in theof the minds of the British people dur-ing the past few weeks havebeen What will the Lords do with thebudget? What effect will the actualflight across the British Channel by theFrench aeroplane of M. Bleriot have uponBritish insularity? and What measure ofsuccess awaits the new military plan formu-lated and discussed at the Colonial Con-ference on Imperial Defense? It is gen-erally held by politicians of all parties thatthe Peers will do all the harm they dare tothe budget short of actually throwing it outaltogether. Of course the flight of the dar-ing French aeronaut was not a record one foreither distance covered or time spent in theair. Its sensational significance lies in thefact that for the first time in history a for-. THE LATEST FREXPH INVASION OF Shade of the Great Napoleon (watching theBleriot aeroplane, his own Khips, and the Britishnavy, and sadlj- recalling his own disastrous attemptto invade England in 180S) : Alas, Bleriot, youhave come too late. From Lc Lire (Paris). eigner landed in Britain by a route whichthe British navy was powerless to obstruct. ^ Lord Roberts plan for imperial Reconstructed defense, discussed and eventual-rmy. ^. j^j^jp^g^ ^^ ^.j^g Colonial Con-ference, held in London during the first daysof August, provides for what will amount touniversal conscription. The same method oftraining and organization adopted and fol-lowed in all the colonies as well as in theUnited Kingdom will, in Lord Robertsjudgment, enable the Empire in time of warto put in the field forty-six divisions, whichwill just equal the strength of the twenty-three army corps of Germany on a warfooting. The delegates at the ColonialConference of the four self-gov
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