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5 ARMY LEARNS TO FLY Wright Teaches Officers Io Use Military Aeroplanes. MAKES ALMOST MILE A MINUTE After Two Flight» Alone Wright Take* Signal Officers 160 Feat tn Air at Great Speed. College Park, Mil., Oct. 9 For th« flrot time In the history of America, an aeroplane owned by the United Statst government eoared |n the air today. Guided by Wilbur Wright. It flew five times in the dedication of the govern ment's tract of land here as an aviation ground. * With almost Ideal conditions for spectators and a breeze blowing scarcely at the rate of a mile an hour, Mr. Wright began the flights to teach officers of the signal corps how to handle the ma -hine. Off the starting rail at It :00, he circled the Held for three minutes Again at 4:0» Mr. Wright was off for another flight. This time hr was in the air five min utes. At 4:61 o'clock he soared away to return after about five minutes. Each lime he had kept to the reserva tion grounds. Then l.ietuenant l<ahm took hie place in the eatra seal. At 6:16 p. m. the two rose probably 160 feel. They went a mile and a half toward Wash ington in hardly more than as many minutes. In about five minutes aftsr they had left they landed within 20 feet of the starting rail. In another short flight, Mr. Wright took Lieuten ant Humphreys with him. Flights probably will be made to morrow and on days following until the officers are familiar with the new art. CHINA PREPARES FOR WAR. Preparing Her Youths to Resist Greed of Foreign Powers. Berkeley, Oct. 9.—That China Is making thorough preparations for armed reaietance in the encroachments of foreign jMiwrss at the present time was the statement made at the stu dent’s meeting at the University of California today by Professor John Fryer, h- ad of the department of Ori ental languages, who has just returned from a year's travel in the Far East. "The large body of Chinese youths and men,” said Proles «>r Fryer, "now to be found in the universities and lower schools of the United States is an indication of the advanced educa tion which the empire has come to consider necessary. There is but one reason fur It to prepare the young Chinese to take part in a struggle that is surely coming. "Educated in our colleges, these young men are sent back to China end form the nucleus fur the corps of lead ers that will one time direct the Chi nese army. Everywhere in ths empire are to be found evidences that the Chi nese are planning for war. Their sol diera are c -netantly drilled, and drilled in the most modem way. The Chinese have reached the point where they will no longer endure the encroach ments of foreign powers, and sume time, before very long, they will take to the Held of battle to settle their difficulties.” CURTISS THRILLS THOUSANDS Flies In a I6-Mlte Wind So as Not to Disappoint Crowd. . SL IxHiie, Oct 9. — Under adverse conditions. Glenn H. Curtiss, by a flight in his biplane late today in For est Park, received the applaure and cheers of many thousands of persona who ha<l waited for hours for the wind to slacken. Curtiss, facing a 16-mile wind, rose in hie machine 30 feet from the ground and flew the length of the aero field. He covered a quarter of a mile and was aloft 46 seconds. Early today he remained in the air a minute and a half and sailed three- quarters of a mile against a 6-mils wind. ___________ Famine ot Cars Is Near. » Chicago, Oct, 9.—The railroads of the country are already face to face with a freight car shortage. The information diacloeed is that the sur plus of freight cars of the entire country has practically been wiped out. Where little more than a year ago there were nearly 40,0000 idle freight rare standing on sidetracka, there is now a small shortage in sev eral linea of traffic. The prediction is freely mails that before winter the country will be facing the severest car shortage in the history of railroads. Wireless for Endicott. Endicott Among the first inland private wireless telegraph systems to be established will be put in at Endi cott by R. R- Hutchinson and E. C. Smith. It is an experiment, but the instruments are not toys, and the young men ere erecting towers, one on tho Hutchison photograph studio and another on the Smith residence. It is expected the machines will be working about October 10, and will be able to talk with all Coast stations. Winter Finds Colorado. Denver, Oct 9.—A drop in the tem perature accompanied by snow flurries in some sections was reported from Colorado pionta today. In Denver a light snow fell. No serious damage bar been done In tho fruit section. FARM CENSUS ECONOMY. UNCLE SAM TO PROTEST. Director Durand Hopes to Save Sev eral Hundred Thousand Debars, Sharp Practice of Japan Violation Oi International Law. Washington, Oct 11.—U. 8. Census Dlrecotr Dana E. Durand hopes to eave several hundred thousand iiullars In ALCOHOL NOT A MEDICINE DUCIUHS TURN ON LIGHT. taking th« census of agriculture and aleo to increase tho accuracy of the statistics. Expose Blur daring Service of Army Intoxicant Seldom Successful In Com batting Disease The director stated today that at* the Transportation - Soldiers Suffer. consult of 1900 the agricultural data Washington, Oct. 12.—That alcohol Washington, Oct. 9.—At ths meet u«ro handled by means of punched in any form is bat seldom of distinct ing of the Association of Military Sur cadre. For each farm a large number value in the treatment of disease ap- of cardo had to be fiuiichad, as ths geons today, medical men of the army pesred to be the consensus of opinion number uf facto recorded regarding a urged that the medical corps eontr. I of the twelfth International Congress on Alcoholism, held in London in July farm was far greater then the number Its own transportation in time of war. last, according to a report of its pro of facto required regarding an individ Col. Valey Harvard, U. S. A., said ceedings given out by the publie health ual tn the population census. that during the Hpunish-American war. and marine hospital service today. Director Durand aaid the statistics the medical service of the army in Tbe report was prepared by Dr. Reid of population end of agriculture are Cuba waa paralysed because its sup Hunt, chief of the division of pharma collect' d by a different lores from that plies were kept miles out at e«a and ecology of the public health and ma employed in gathering the statistics later were dumped promiscuously rine service. of manuafetureo. The population and Home evidence, Dr. Hunt declares, along the shore. Much a thing would agricultural data are secured by enum not have happened, he said, had the was brought forward to show that aleo erators of whom there will be about medical cor|* had charge of its own hoi. even in moderate amounts, has an 86,000 at tho present census, they in unfavorable effect upon offspring, and transportation. has a tendency to lower resistance to turn being appointed by the supervis Another instance of delay in trans infection. or», ot whom there are about 330. The portation waa the shipment of con- difficulty of securing competent and ilen'sed milk to the Philippine islands. ASKS BIG SUM TOK CANAL; faithful enumerators is very great. The milk, hs said, was allowed to Tho length of service la very short, 16 stand for days at the factory because Goethals Can Do 814.083,524 Worth of 'leys in the cities and 30 days in the of the failure of anothi r department to Work in 1910. euuntry districts. The pay la small, j provide transportation. averaging perhaps three dollars per Washington, Oct. 12.—The Panama Sir Alfred Keough, director-general day In the country districts and a trifle I of the British army medical service, Canal commission haa submitted to the mure in the cities, practically the pay secretary of war an estimate of appro maintained that, while It was the priations aggregating $4k,068JS24 for of ordniary mechanics. Not only, province of the military surgeon to act work on the canal during the fisrai year therefore, are moat of those who seek in a humanitarian capacity, hie first beginning July 1, 1910. Of the amount to be neumeralora able to command object should be to increase the effi asked fnr 415,504,036 is for skilled and only moderate pay in their occupa ciency of the army. He said that sur unskilled labor, and 420,218,9X3 is for tions, but many of them are men who geons should send back home tbe sol materials and supplies used in construc can not commend regu ar employment diers who wers unfitted for action. tion work. and who are looking for odd jobs. The total a made by The director hopes that a consider congress up to account of NEW TONNAGE TAX. able number of the colleegeand univer the canal in 4310,070,46s. Colonel — sities of the country may see fit to give tioethals, chairman and chief engineer leave uf absence to their students for Psyns-Aldrich Act Has First Innings. of the commission, has declared the great waterway will be completed the short time required to do thia work Decreases Income. January 1, 1915, and has estimated the of enumeration. The college student is Washington, Oct. 7. -Collection of total cost at 4375,000.000. a very useful enumerator in some the new tonnage tax of 2 cents pro The unusually largs amount asked for caaoe, but it la exceedingly desirable scribed for in the recently passed tho new fiscal year, it it said, is due to that enumerators should actually live Payne-Aldrich tariff act begins today. the fact thnt work has entered a more in the -lietritec where they work, and Tbs new law provides that the tonnage advanced stage. there are multitudes of districts where duty of 2 cents per ton, not to exceed no college students reside or where such In the aggregate 10 cents per ton in BEST ENGINEERS LOST. students are in Institutions hundreds or any one year, be imposed at every en thousands of miles from their homes. try on all vessels from any foreign Competent Men rind Private Enter Another class who can render good ser port or place in North America, Cen prises Pay Better. vice as enumerators are school teach tral America, the West India islands, ers, buL with the enumeration taking the Bahama islands or the coast of Washington. Oct. 13.—The extensive place in April and May instead of June South America, bordering on the Car development of irrigation in the West as formerly, few school teachers can be ibbean sea, or Newfoundland, and a by large corporations during the past ■parol from their dutiee to take the few .years is making it extremely dif duty of 6 cents per ton, not to exceed ficult for the United Rtates reclamation ceneua. 5<i cents per ton per annum ere imposed service to retain its experienced engi at every entry on all vessels from any neers. Thom' engineers who have sue- DRY FARMING CONGRESS. other foreign port, not, however, to in •vAsfully built big projects for the gov clude vess. Is in distress or not engaged I eminent, and demonstrated their com Great inlerast Is Shown From All in trade. potency to handle such undertaking*, Parts Of the Country. The new 2-cent rate amounts virtu can readily command salaries far in ex Billings, Montana, Oct 11..'—An in- ally to a de-reaee of 1 cent from the eess of what they are paid by the gov terestmg example of the widespread rates heretofore in effect. Naturally, ernment. From time to time during the past interest in the dry farming movement the decreased rate will have a tendency waa given in the morning mail received to lower the receipts from the tonnage year vary tempting offers have been by the secretary the oilier day when taxes, and it is estimated by the de made to a number of the beat engineers in the reclamation service, and several fourteen states and Canada were rep- partment of commerce and labor that have been unable to withstand the lure resented in the memberships recorded. the annual income will amount to 81,- of higher salaries. The latest of them These ranged from ths Pacific coast on 060,000, per year, or more than 8500,- to leave the government service was Ira the West to Pennsylvania on the East 000 lees than waa collected annually W. McConnell, the engineer who had and from Canada to New Mexico. u der the old law. charge of the construction of Che Gun There were severel memberships from mson tunnel, in Colorado, recently Canada. I he atates from which the opened bv President Taft. Reveral Must File Claims Promptly. applications came were California. Col Washington, Oct. 9. — Flagrant others have gone before, and ' it is orado, Idaho, Montana. Minnesota, abuses in fruit importation entailing feared that still others will follow. Nebraksa, New Mexico, thousands of dollars of loss to the gov Missouri, Faces Central Bank Question. North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, ernment occurring especially on the South Dakota, Washington and Wis- docks at New York, are aimed at in Washington, Oct 8.—The coming eons in. regulations proclaimed today by Acting congress must meet a situation born of Memberships are being received at Secretary of the Treasury Reynolds and the panic of 1907, when tne issue of such rate that the edition of the Hand directed to collectors of customs “and clearing house certificates was necee- book of Information, which contains all ethers concerned.” sary to supply sufficient currency to the report of the third aesaion of the The regulations prohibit importers meet the demands of business interests congress, has been exhausted and the from delaying fora week or 10 days of the country. The temporary legis secretary has been compelled to añ the filing of claims for allowances for lation enacted during that critical per nuonce to now members that there ore destruction or injury of fruit imported iod must either be supplanted or re no more of thee«' value1 de books avail but not taken from the docks, making enacted into permanent law, and fore able. All persons joining the congreso it impossible for the authorities to de most among the various projects stands from this time on will receive the sec termine what to allow for the deterior the proposed national central bank. It ond annusl Handbook which will con ation of the imports. is tue common belief that it will form tain the proceedings of the Fourth Dry the basis of the curative legislation to Farming congress which will meet at be recommended by the monetary com Prepare Uniform Pharmacopeia. Billings, Montana, October 26 28, and Washington, Oct. 13.—To bring about mission and President Taft in his re a resume of the contents of ths first cent Boston speech signified bis favor greater uniformity in the different phar- edition. able disposition towards the project. The officers of the congress set out mai’O|H>eias of the principal countries of the world, an international commission sfter the close of the Cheyenne meet Cotton Crop Takes a Drop. ing with the ambition of making the has b«H>n established, which is to be a Washington, Oct 8.—The report of means of communication among the member-hip of the congress total 10.- the census bureau today showed that 000 before the Billings meeting and commissione engngml in the proposed up to September 25 there had been revision, according to a report made the indications are that they will come to Nurgeon-Generai Wyman, of tho pnb ginned from the cotton growth of 1909, very near that goal. In one dsy re He health and marine services, by Dr. 2.562,688 bales, counting round as half cently the secretary received 180 Reid Hunt, chief of the division of bales, compared with 2,590,63 for membershi;ia coming from all parts of pharmacology. 1908. The round bales included this thia country and from several foreign year were 48,176, compared with 57,- lands. Every mail brings more. Will Put It Off. 107 for 1908. The sea island cotton re Washington, Oct. 8.—Although the pot c for 1909 was 13,826, compared Say Anti Betting Law is Void. The corrected monetary commission has decided to with 11,455 for 1908. New York, Oct. 11.—The Coney Island recommend the establishment of a cen statistics of the quantity of cotton and Brooklyn jockey clubs, which were tral bank, it is practically certain that ginned to September 1, was announced The report today indicted recently with 30 bookmakers no attempt will be made to secure leg as .388,242 bales. and detectives for alleged violation of islation at ths coming session of con will be altered slightly by reports the law against betting at racetracks, gress. Experts say it will be impos transmitted by mail by individual gin- ners. served notice today that they would on sible to complete all details and plans for the inatitu'on during the life of the October 13 interpose a demurrer on the Austrian Hop Crop Fails. ground that tho Hart Agnew law was present congress, which expires in Washington, Oct. 7.—The European March, 1911. unconstitutional. They assert that the hop crop this year has been a failure. election which sent William C. A report from Consul Joseph I. Brit Qjty rathen Must Fight I to the state senate from Ni Washington. Oct. 12.—ladinn Com tain at Prague. Austria, has just agara county was illegal. Without Mr. Wallace's vote the bill would have been missioner Valentine asserted today brought the following information: that his bureau would lend nil possible The normal hop crop in Bohemia is defeated. administrative support in the prosecu about 23,659,800 pounds. The crop of tion of several officers of Marshalltown, 1908 was an unusually large one and Improve Immigrant Station. la., indicted for conspiring to interfere El Portal, Cal., Oct. 11.—One direet with a special officer of the Indian amounted in Bohemia alone to 33,069,- result of President Taft’s trip to the .service while the latter was investigat 000 pounds, and in Austria as a whois to 39,682,800 pounds. Thia ysar's Wont has boon the immediate improve ing alleged sales of liquor to Indians crop is 75 per cent less. ment of immigration conditions at San from the Tama reservation. Francisco. By the president’s direc Take Part in Celebration, 8.000 Want Indian Lands. tion Secretary Nagel ordered that the Washington. Oct 9.—Great Britain, now immigrant station on Angel island, Pierro, S. D., Oct 7.- -The actual Ran Francisco harbor, be opened at regstration for tha first day in the Germany, Italy and the Netherlands once. The opening of this station had land opening of the Cheyenne River have announced intention of participat been held up for a long time for want and Standing Rock Indian reservations ing in the celebration of the 140th an of an appropriation for furniture and at thia place waa 870 names. The reg niversary of the discovery of San supplies. istration for the same period reported Francisco bay by Gaspard de Portola from the other districts was Lebeau, to bo held in San Francisco October Richse Tall on Old Man. 280; Mobridge, 270; Lemmon, 282; 19-23. Ran Antonio, Tax., Oct. 11.—.Tames Bismarck, 677; Aberdeen, 3,654. To- Postal Receipts Grow. Fagan, an aged switchman hers, re tai, 6,013. . reived official word today that a Car Washington. Oct. 13.—The percentage negie pension et 440,000 was awaiting of increase of postal receipts at Port Turbines for New Battleships. his disposal. Fagan worked on tho land for Reptember, as compared to Washington, Oct. 8.—Both the new September last year, was greater than Pennsylvania railway when Mr. Car aegis was his division superintendent, American Dreadnaughts, 28,000 tons at any other postoffice in the United and the 440, i,000 is accumulation of a displacement, for which contracts States except Seattle and New Haven. snug persine pnt aside some years ago were recently awarded, will bo equip Seattle's big increase was due to the for the ewitchmaa. ped with Parsons turbine engines. exposition. WIN BALLOON RACE ____________ Washington, (Jet 8. — Additional facts shedding light on tbe diplomatic s tuation which led up to tha negotia tion of tha treaty between China and Japan relating to tbe reconstruction of ths Antung-Mukden railroad were se cured today from reliable sources. Thia information only tends to confirm tbe impression that tho United States may be called upon to protest against a vio lation of tbe "open door” agreement in China and diacrodite tbe report that Soar Through Rain and Fog Across Charles R. Crane, of Chicago, the new Europe—Taken by Russian Police, minister to China, has reen recalled from San Francisco by Philander C. Despite Passports. Knox, secretary of state, primarily for tho purpose of receiving a reprimand for alleged indiscreet remarks in re Zurich, Switzerland, Oct. 7.—All spect to tbe relations between China Zur eh tonight toasted America and her and tbe United States. Such talk at champion, Edward W. Mix, who, after present merely beclouds what, in tbe a remarkable and dramatic struggle opinion of those who know, is a serious against wind and rain storms, has car- situation. led off first honors in tbe international As previously indicated, tho crisis in balloon race for the Gordon Bennett the diplomatic situation in China is cup by sailing from Zurich to the heart not the outcome of any ore act or cir of the forest north of Warsaw in Rus cumstance. It io learned that negotia sian Poland. tions between China and Japan bad It is calculated that Mix covered a proceeded for some time under the distance of between 1,045 kilometers watchful eye of tho Uuited States and (648.94 miles) and 1,120 kilometers other nations, previous to tbe signing ■ '0*0.53 miles). Alfred LeBlanc, the of tho treaty between China and Japan French pilot, is placed second, with a early in July. At the time the pact distance of 834 kilometers (517.81 waa signed it is understood to have miles); Captain Measner, one of the been the belief of the state depart Swiss pilots, third, with 800 kilo ment, based on information from Min meters (496.80 mile«), and Captain ister Rockhill at Pekin and from other Schaeck, another Swiss entry, fourth. sources, that the question at issue be While there is disappointment be tween China and Japan would not bo cause of the failure of the Swiss pilots definitely concluded for at least two to repeat last year’s victory, the gen years. It is known that tbe Chinese eral sentiment is one of satisfaction foreign office thought it would take that America haa taken the prize. three years. Mix had continuous rain and fog Acting on this belief, Mr. Rockbill throughout his voyage and saw tbe sun sailed for the United States on June for the first time as be was landing on 20, and Thomas J. O'Brien, United Tuesday morning. In a personal die Sts tee ambassador to Japan, sailed patch to the Associated Press from from Yokohama on leave of absence on ■ Ostrolenka, be said: June 26. To tbe surprise of the state “I landed in a large pine tree in the department, the treaty between Japan forest of Gutova, west of Ostrolenka and China relating to the reconstruc and north of Warsaw, at 3 o'clock tion of and concessions along the South Tuesday morning. I encountered a Manchurian and Antung-Mukden rail heavy rain. My ballast was exhausted roads was s’gned early in July over the wnen I came down. At present I am protest of China. in the bands of the police, but ail is Had thia event been expected, it is going well. not believed here that Mr. Rockhill “I had bad weather Sunday night. would have left his post at Pekin or It was cloudy and rain fell, and I used that Mr. O’Brien would have returned half my ballast before morning. The home at that time, particularly when weather was so thick that it was im tbe agreement between China and possible to locate my position for one Japan was believed even then to con hour south of Prague.” tain some provision inimical to the "open door” policy in the Orient It is said that diplomatic hints to EXPLORE IN AIRSHIP. Japan that a violation of the “open door" policy was contemplated in the Germans, Headed by Prince Henry, proposed treaty were met with denials Back Arctic Expedition. It is [now understood that this treaty Friederichsbafen, Oct. 7.—Prince gives an exclusive right to Chinese and Japanese only to exploit the mines Henry of Prussia, presided here yes on both sides of the South Manchurian terday at a meeting of persons inter and Antung-Mukden railroad. Further ested in North Polar research by more, it is said there is no limitation means of a dirigible balloon. Among as to bow far either side of those rail those present were Count Zeppelin, roads these exclusive rights shall ob Dr. Felix Lewaid, of the ministry of tain. In either case, such an agree the interior, and Colonel Mann, chief ment is regarded in Washington as a engineer of the Zeppelin works. It violation, in spirit at least, of both was i ecided to organise a society to be the Hay “upon door” policy and the known as the German Society for the Exploration of Polar Regions. Portsmouth treaty. Prince Henry presided today over the meeting of the board of directors of the Zeppelin airship Arctic expedi TAFT IN YOSEMITE. tion to be undertaken under the aus Greatly Enjoy Stage Ride of 34 Miles pices of the German society. It waa deckled to send an advance Through Nsture's Glories. party during the summer of 1910 to Wawona, ’Cal., Oct 8.— An all-day Spitzenbergsn, with all the requisite stage ride over 34 miles of mountain equipment for tbe operation of an air roads "brought President Taft tonight ship in the polar regions. to this lovely little Sierra retreat Mr. Taft and his party reached the Wa CALL HALT ON SPAIN. wona hotel in their stages at 5 p. m., one hour after the scheduled time, due to the lingering in the Grouse French General Says Other Interests Are in Danger. creek forest near Chinquapin. The day ride from El Portal, which Paris, Oct. 7.—General A. G. L. began at 7 a. m., included glimpses of d'Amide, leader of the French expedi Yosemite valley, from Inspiration ard tion in Morocco, in a sensatio al inter Artist's Point a pursuit of the tumb view in the Matin this morning, de ling waters of the Merced river into clares that the time has arrived for the valley floor and a winding, narrow France to call a halt on Spain’s opera climb to the crest of mountains 7,000 tions in Morocco and to intervene to feet high, which shut in the wonders save the economic and political inter of the Yosemite. The day was bright, ests of Africa. the air like crystal and everywhere He declared French interests and the was the exhilirating scent of the pines. tranquility of a large area are threat News that the mountain lions were ened and that Texaz, Morocco, which infesting the park held out hope of ad is the natural outlet of a large area to venture for a time, but not even the the Atlantic, is likely to fall into the tracks of one were seen on the road. hands of the Spanish. This would be disastrous to French interests. American Distances All Rivals lor Bennett Cup. FROM SWITZERLAND TO RUSSIA Mongrel Cur is Hero. Seattle, Oct. 8.—“Ted,” a little black dog belonging to James Rice, at 7211 Eli avenue, is the dog hero in the vicinity of Whittier school, in the north part of Ballard. “Ted” saved the life of little Edith Stewart, who waa attacked and almost chewed to pieces by a vicious bulldog. Tbe little black dog rushed across to the rescue. Grabbing the bulldog by the tail, he bit, barked and snarled until the bull dog released his iron hold on the child and turned on hie annoying adver sary. For International Union. Washington, Oct. 7.—“The visit of President Samuel Compere to Europe will mean the early establishment of an international federation of labor, the autonomy of the trade union move ment of each country being ordained and guaranteed, ” said Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor today. “The general purpose of an international federation of labor,” continued Mr. Morrison, “will be for the protection and the advance ment of the righto, interests and jus tice of the wage-workers.” Groat Prices for Hops. Utica, N. Y., Oct. 8—Hopgrowers in Central New York are obtaining un heard of prices for this year's crop. While the hops a year ago at this time were bringing from 9 to 11 cents a peund, the growers are receiving this week from 32 to 33 S cents, and some choice lota have brought 35 cents. Dealers say that never in their exper ience were the hope bought up so close at thio time of the season as they are today. Hsarst Nominated for Mayor. New York, Oct. 7.—William Ran dolph Hearst, once defeated for mayor of this city by George B. McClellan, and later defeated by Charles E. Hughes for governor of the state, was nominated for mayor tonight at a mass meeting of 4,000 of hie admirers at Cooper Union. This action waa taken despite hie authoritative statement last evening that he would not be a candidate. An entire city, county and borough ticket will be nominated. Would Count Out Heney. San Francisco, Oct 8.—Charles M. Flckert, Repubbean nominee for the office of district attorney, who lays claim to the Democratic nomiantion, alleging that the latter was not prop erly swarded to Francis J. Heney, was granted today his request for a recount of the Democratic votes cast at tbe recent primary election. King Edward as Conciliator. London, Oct. 7.- For the first time in hie reign, the King is openly inter vening in domestic affairs. Hie activ ity is centered in an effort to prevent the crisis threatened by the ministry's financial proposals. In his intervening the King is assisted by unofficial ad visers.