It is not °fir, if ever, that we quote from a religious paper, but the " Catholic Herald " of March 24 contains such a scathing denunciation of the hopeless confusion which exists in the department of National Service that we give a few words from its account of the muddle. The

AUSTRIA. How the Government Treats the Coots As we have announced three months ago, the Ivach-r of the Czech Socialist Party, Dr Francis Soukup, was charged with high treason, but his trial was postponed for the lack of evidence. Now the trial is to be shortly renewed. Dr. Soukup

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