The Week.

The article presents incidents related to the world politics. The French have taken deep offence at the assumption by the British of the protectorate of Zanzibar under the Anglo-German Treaty, because in 1862 a joint declaration was signed by the French and English Governments reciprocally guaranteeing the independence of the Sultan. Moreover, the final act of the Berlin Conference in 1885 obliged every European nation which meant to establish a protectorate over any portion of the African coast, to give notice to all the other Powers. Another one focuses on the incident in which General von Moltke has put on record his testimony against alcohol, which he says he never uses and thinks unnecessary, and he sets down as " one of the greatest enemies of Germany the misuse of alcohol "