Dulwich Evening Dispatch | Flanders-Hainaut Riots

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DULWICH EVENING DISPATCH​

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TRADE WAR
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TARIFF AND EMBARGO EXCHANGES IN SAAMISKAVIA

The region is shackled in a tit-for-tat trade war initiated by a historical dispute over territory.

The Keltisc of Saamiskavia (Celts of Scania) seems to have involved themselves in a very complicated series of tariff and trade disputes, the ultimate result of which it is not easy to predict. For the present their foreign trade arrangements may be best described as anarchical. To the embargo war with Batavie has now been added a tariff war with the Northern Council and Vistrasia.

The Republic of Batavie having refused to concede to the will of Lumina and Bangleann concerning the territorial disputes, the Keltisc initiated an economic embargo against the Batavien Republic, the Northern Council and the Commonwealth of Vistrasia retaliated with prohibitive tariffs on manufactures of Warre and Bantyr. On the other hand, however, Great Engellex has opened negotiations for a commercial treaty with Bantyr, and probable with Warre, and it is reported from Dulwich that the Queen has empowered her Ministers in Lumina and Bangleann to conclude a treaty on the basis of the most favoured interest of regional economic stability.

The reported intention of introducing negotiations with the Commonwealth of Cantigny is confirmed by the Secretary of the Northern Department, and advices from the Northern Department state that the introduction of a Cannie-Saamiskavien-Borussian treaty may be regarded as a priority of the Queen and her Ministers. Doubt is expressed, however, as to whether or not in the negotiations with Bantyr and Warre the Engellexic Government can accomplish its insistence on establishing a preferential economic environment in which Cannie manufactures can compete equally in Saamiskavia.

Meanwhile the journals of Hammersmith and Vauxhal are urging that Great Engellex should put pressure upon the Batavie Republic in the form of special duties in order to obtain better terms than are currently enjoyed by the Northern Council members. The Queen and her Ministers are unlikely to have a position of partaking in a tariff war with the Northern Council, as her vested interests in Saamiskavien trade are at present too important, while it is understood the present regional political climate will, it is argued, compel Great Engellex to seek a new economic agreement with the Northern Council.

 

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EST. 1876
FROM AROUND THE EMPIRE
EXECUTION AT NAPIERBURGH-UPON-MNGENI
Imperial Territory of Karoskland
There is little of importance to record from this colonial possession. The date of this intelligence is Napierburgh-Upon-Mngeni, the 20th of May. The Lord Commissioner has been employed by her Imperial Engellexic Majesty to the collection of information for the purpose of maturing plans for the betterment of the government of the people committed to his charge for the reason of advancing industry within the territory.

Five men have been convicted of the slaughter of three Imperial Officers of Karoskland have been executed together, in the presence of a vast concourse of imperial and local persons of the male gender. Cholera continues to rage violently through the Baroslland District as an epidemic, and it is thought small pox has lately superadded cholera in the district. The latter disease, however, has not it appears to have spread with the rapidity and violence that is seen with the former.

The Lord Commissioner’s Government has accepted to provide the guarantee of independence sought for by the projectors of an industrialist program to double the capacity of the Great Southern line connecting the capital to the sugar estates of the Sothobele District.
REPUBLICAN MASSACRE AT VESPER SYPMATHY
Imperial Territory of Wightland Islands
Journals from this territory, to the date of the 17th May, are taken up with the general rejoicings consequent on the receipt of news of republican dissident massacres taken place within Vesper, the metropolis of the Commonwealth of Cantigny. Judging from the tone of the newspapers which have reached Hammersmith, a minority of settlers would appear to have been carried away by enthusiasm of local alcoholic beverages, or simply put ‘gone insane’, allowing this isolated sway of support for republican terrorism. All business of the governing Council at Foxtown in the Province of Wangaloo has been suspended by the Lord Commissioner’s Government for three weeks, to allow the fullest inquiry of this dastardly affair.

Mr. G. Luckes-Brown has been invited to represent the Province of Gisbourne in the Commons Assembly in Dulwich. The 15th of July has been fixed for a Conference at Adelaide of the committee of the Anti-Exclusivity Association, for the purpose of establishing an interchange of intelligence and ideas between all provinces of the Imperial Territory of Wightland interested in the discontinuance of the exclusivity of trade of Wightland with Great Engellex of many manufactures.
REVOLUTIONARY SEPARATISTS OF ZADAR FREE
Imperial Territory of Zadar-Istrian Islands
Zadarska and Lika journals to the 19th of May have reached us. The revolutionary separatists of Zadar have commenced in being a grave source of uneasiness to the Government of the Lord Commissioner, and inconvenience to the fair inhabitants; several had managed to escape from custody of Imperial Officers of Zadarska, to begin, without doubt, the work of revolutionary menace within the province of the territory.

With the view of benefiting the islands territory, the Ministers of her Imperial Engellexic Majesty had notified their willingness to the Lord Commissioner of encouraging the importation of Engellexic automobiles and bicycles, by holding out a tax rebate of fifty shillings and a half crown to the first one thousand importers of an automobile or bicycle from Engellex, and the sum of twenty sterling pounds to the first commercial importer of an acceptable quantity of the said manufactures, within twenty-four months from July 1st.

 

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DULWICH EVENING DISPATCH​

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NAVAL OUTRAGE
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NAVAL OUTRAGE AT BAKER STREET STATION

Sailors of her Majesty's Royal Engellexic Navy cause outrage, a frightening scene of the greatest excitement.

On Friday evening, whilst the passengers were waiting on the platform of the Great Southern railway line at the Baker Street Station in Hammersmith, they were thrown into a painful state of excitement in consequence of the following disgraceful outrage, perpetrated by a party of sailors belonging to HEMS Warspite of the Engellexic Greater Home Fleet. A number of men belonging to the before named warship had been to the town of Hammersmith to take leave following a need of assessment of Warspite, and had taken up their quarters on the Baker Street Station platform for the purpose of proceeding back to Hammersmith Naval Dockyard, when it was noticed that some of them were so intoxicated as to be unable to proceed by the train; and they forthwith commenced abusing every one who came near them.

The constables of the Hammersmith Crown Constabulary belonging to the station endeavoured to prevail upon them to be quiet. Instead, however, of doing so they made use of the most disgusting language towards all present, amongst them were a number of ladies. An attempt was made to remove them from the platform, when a scene took place that it would be difficult to describe; for the moment one of the officials of the station approached a sailor, he commenced shouting, and swore that anyone who dared to touch him should immediately perish. At this time he ran to and fro over the platform, and attempted to open the doors of the many carriages of the train. This, threw the occupants into a state of the greatest excitement, and most of the persons left their seats terribly frightened.

Communications were sent to the Manor Road Constabulary Station for the aid of additional constales, and it was at length found necessary to resort to violent measures to capture the men. Six were very unfortunately wounded by means of police firearms. Eventually the ten principal rioters were secured; but it took twenty constables to bring them to the station, and three, had their legs strapped together, in attempt to prevent them from doing further mischief.

At Hammersmith Magistrates Court the detained will be charged with being concerned in the disturbance, and likely fined 500£ each, or in default of payment to thirty days in an Industrial Work Estate, this will proceed on Wednesday the 25th.

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE BILL​

The Home Secretary Speaks on the Suspension of the Bill within the Lords, and Confirms her Majesty's Intention

In moving to consider the impact of the Women’s Suffrage Bill suspension, the Home Secretary and First Lord, Charles Foster, the Earl of Onslow, said he was placed under somewhat peculiar circumstances, and that had to contend with some unexpected difficulties. He deeply regretted that when the proposition to suspend the bills progress it obtained a majority with names of Pitt Party member’s names appearing in that majority, for he ‘was confident that nothing would more have strengthened her Majesty’s Cabinet or tended to have made it popular in the country than for it to have shown an absolute absence of popular want of the franchise extension, but to give a substantial and solid boon to the country by means of this most simple, effectual, and just measure.’

The Home Secretary then proceeded to blame the Whig Party front bench for having pressed the parliament to a division for the most disgraceful act of party political affairs; but he begged to assure peers of the House of Lords that the Women’s Suffrage Bill never intended to be a sham. He always intended it to be a reality, as it was felt across the Cabinet, and by her Majesty, that the most important interestes of the country were at stake; and that the great cause of democracy and free trade was in danger, on account of the great diminution of Great Engellex’ international position due to its position on universal suffrage.

Those who advocated the cause of women’s suffrage stood, however, in a much better position in consequence of that division than they did before, for they had now many admissions of the necessity for a substantial extension of the suffrage, not only from a majority of Whig Party backbenchers and councillors, but also from four of the most eminent and distinguished members of the Whig Party front bench in the Commons Assembly. One was Sir Robert Fitzgerald, the leaders of the Whig Party, and members of the Commons, who voted for the suspension of the suffrage bill, but who admitted at the same time that ‘no reasonable person could bring any charge against the case on extending the franchise, as the new female class would probably use the privilege with intelligence and integrity.’

When they had made these admissions, it was clearly the duty of her Majesty to consider what should be done, and it peculiarly became the duty of the Home Secretary and First Lord of the House, Charles Foster the Earl of Onslow to inform the House of Lords at once the intention of her Majesty the Queen to fulfill a pledge to have the suffrage extended before twelve months have passed.

ANGLYN AND BOMBAIM​

Declaration of the Anglysh Government against the Democratic World

The observations of exchanges between governments of Europe on the condition of the colonial possession of Bombaim were of a spirit of cordial understanding, except by Anglyn, which alone haughtily rejected the counsel of the Commonwealth of Cantigny, Great Engellex, and Touzen, offered in the most amicable form. The measures of rigour adopted by the Anglysh Government would compromise order within the Implaric Oceanic Territory, and possibly Europe.

The councils of civilised and free Europe have been discarded, and the Anglysh Government has thought fit to persevere in a fatal course of international political play with their European Defence Federation members. Hesitation was no longer warranted, and it has been suggested a necessity for her Majesty the Queen to break off diplomatic relations with the Pretender Court of Anglyn which itself has never been fully recognised by the Court of Dulwich. Any suspension would not act as an attempt of intervention nor of hostility. As the safety of the Crown Subjects of the Implaric Oceanic Territory may be compromised.

The naval squadrons of the Engellexic Expeditionary Force will be reformed to their former Engellexic Expeditionary Fleet of the Implaric Oceanic Territory, but not sent to the waters of the region, so as not to offer encouragement or support to the many discontented of Bombaim, who will see the possible success of a long time endeavour to upset the colonial arrangement of the Anglysh Crown over Bombaim. If the Anglysh King returns to better sentiments on this grave issue, her Majesty the Queen will quite possibly receive his Court as she formerly did.

 

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পররাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রক
Ministry of External Affairs

The PASILA Accord, chiefly through Engellex and its puppet Cantigny, are trying to subvert the legitimate cause of returning Bombaim to Khalistan to fit their nakedly imperialist agenda of total domination in the East.

 

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Foreign Office

If it is the Engellex government's decision to withdraw diplomatic recognition of the Kingdom of Anglyn, then HM government will respect it and will not hender the evacuation of Engellexic diplomatic staff and their dependant from sovereign Anglysh territory and will expect the Engellexic government to extend the same curtesy to Anglysh diplomatic personnel and their dependants.

 

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DULWICH EVENING DISPATCH​

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WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE BILL
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LEAGUE OF FREE WOMEN SPEAK OUT

The attitude of the League of Free Women to the Women’s Suffrage Bill having been severely damaged by the suspension of its progress in the Commons Assembly.

It might interest people here, said Lady Constance Pentham, in view of what has fallen from members of the Whig Party in the Commons Assembly and particularly to know Mr. W. Glaversham’s views on the extension of the franchise. Mr. Glaversham says ‘the idea has always been supported by the Whig Party, that there ought to be a great reformation to which classes are eligible to cast a vote in our democracy. A Joint Parliamentary Committee should be formed which would confer and discuss and advise on all great questions for reform. Mr. Glaversham pointed out that if such a committee had been formed previous to the suspension of the suffrage bill, its advice would have been of the greatest possible value to the suffrage cause.' He added, 'I do not see why the women of Great Engellex should not have representation in our Parliament.'

Having turned to the question of the bill, Lady Pentham continued :- I have seen in Monday’s Morning Herald the reference of the Home Secretary to the attitude of the Whig Party members in the Commons. While I do suppose that the Home Secretary restrained in his remarks by common decency, it does not appear to adequately sum up the case of treachery committed by the Whig Party. Our position as regards the Women’s Suffrage Bill is that we ask that the members of the Commons to not corrupt this process of democratic reform with petty politics. The members that opposed the bill did not visit us and speak to our people, but believed they were learned enough to make a strong judgement. We were near enough, however, to observe the differences of opinion in the Commons concerning the various points of suffrage qualification, and the very strong opposition which manifested within the backbenches of the Pitt Party.

It was not fully understood until a month ago, that the Opposition front bench, the Whigs, would betray their core principles to achieve a defeat against the ruling party, the Pitts. Rightly, therefore, we considered ourselves unbound to support the electioneering of the Whig Party as they considered themselves unbound by their principles, we shall observe the attitude of the Whig Party with watchful caution.

ANGLYN COLONIAL CRISIS​

The Grand Duke of Wantage Makes a Statement at Great Wixmouth

His Highness the Grand Duke of Wantage spoke on the escalating crisis within the Implaric Oceanic Territory at a dinner with the Lord Mayor of Great Wixmouth.

The Grand Duke said, Whatever the position of Anglyn may be towards the Commonwealth of Cantigny, it owes the concerned Powers of Europe an explanation as to their attitude and what they intend to do to rectify it, which must be so clear, as to prevent the arise of any and all possibility of conflict within the Implaric Oceanic Territory. The Grand Duke continued, it must be accepted that Anglyn’s present embarrassed situation has been brought about by itself, and the consequences must be borne by whomever is most at fault within the Anglysh Government. This allusion to the Anglysh difficulty is considered to be an absolute expression of the official opinion of the Union of Great Engellex on the subject. It is hoped that if several days are allowed to elapse the attitude of the Anglysh Government could be found to be more reasonable than the reaction on impulse of the moment.

According to a recent statement from the office of the Lord Commissioner of Karoskland, the War Secretary Field Marshall Arthur Batten-Lyon holds firm to the belief that contingencies should be made to the re-commissioning of the Regiment of Implaric Oceanic Rifles and the Regiment of the South Himyari Rifles, to reinforce security within the southern territories should a conflict break out.

Daily conferences are to begin taking place at Napierburgh-Upon-Mngeni in order to prepare for any emergency.

NAVAL AND MILITARY DISPATCHES

The Seventh Submarine Squadron, at present engaged in the monitoring of war and commercial vessels of states of the Long Sea, is due to return from active duty to the Zadarska Naval Dockyard, a replacement has not been followed as the exercise is to be discontinued following a de-escalation within the region. The termination of the operation is highly desirable from a financial as well as a tactical point.

The Second Destroyer Flotilla is to leave the Hammersmith Naval Dockyard on May 27th for a voyage to the Wightland Islands Karoskland. The flotilla will call at Zadarska on the 28th and Port Wandsworth on the 1st of June, and will due at Napierburgh-Upon-Mngeni on the 4th of June. The Second Destroyers will remain in the region until the Engellexic Expeditionary Fleet of the Implaric Oceanic Territory has been re-organised and deployed.

 

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Secretariate d'Affaires Étrangères
Secretariate of Foreign Affairs

It has been the observation of the Grand Ducal government that it is Her Majesty's colonial government in Vesper that is the instigator in this so-called crisis and the deployment of Engellex naval forces will only exasperate the situation.

Henri Mercier, chevalier de l'Ordre du Templiers
Secrétaire d'Affaires Étrangères
Grand Duché d'Aquitania

 

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পররাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রক
Ministry of External Affairs

The increased deployment of warships in Oceania by Engellex is disturbingly reminiscent of the 19th century gunboat diplomacy that led to the establishment of concession cities like Bombaim. White imperialist powers like Engellex must abandon their meddling foreign policies and allow the peoples of Oceania, Toyou and elsewhere to determine their own futures.

 

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Directorate of Foreign Relations
Republic of Barbossa

The Republic of Barbossa must object to the Engellexic government's obvious attempt to intimidate any of those who might voice oposition to the Catigny Chancellor's Pan Implarian ambition..... or is this a visible indication of Imperial Engellexic ambitions?

Miguel Hernadez-Alvarado
Dirección General de Relaciones Exteriores,
República de Barbossa

 

[Thaumantica]

Office for Foreign Affairs

This Office, nor the Office of the Chancellery, has ever indicated an intent to ensure democratic standards beyond Oceania. Felix Ilchester possesses no greater ambition then has been expressed publicly to the Commonwealth: a War on Poverty within Cantigny, and a persistent demand for the True Peace in Oceania - Pax Oceania. The ideal of Pan-Implarian hegemony is clearly insane and unattainable, even for the bravest and finest Patriots, so we openly endorse the Republic of Barbossa's outcry against any individual or movement's Pan-Implarian ambition.

Speaking to all other forms of speculation: we should not permit our minds to wander from the true issue at hand, the Garrison Dictatorship reigning over Tangaloa. The Garrison Kingdom of Anglyn has publicly stated that it would not allow a contemporary assessment of Tangaloan self-determination, which is what this Office has been railing about day after day without rest. If an environment could be facilitated where Tangaloans determined the future of Tangaloa without Weapons of Mass Destruction bearing down on them, perhaps the Can-Engellexic message would be less militant, and more supportive of Anglyn.

Forward Cantigny!
Benjamin Stokes,
Chief Officer,

 

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Directorate of Foreign Relations
Republic of Barbossa

It is difficult to believe that Sr. Ilchester is actually interested in peace when he has actively advocated revolution and has offered to pay those who would rise up in armed revolt in Tangaloa.

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As of this moment forward, the Oceanic Union for National Democrats declares the Oceanic Territories of Tangaloa the site of Europe's next great Democratic Revolution, and that the violence delivered unto the Patriotic Business Folk & Innocents of Cantigny shall be returned no less than manifold so long as an Alien Tyrant rules over the Patriotic Peoples of Tangaloa. We call upon the Sons & Daughters of Tangaloa to mobilize at once against Anglyn's Garrison State of constabulary oppression, recognizing that the murdered and vandalized Cannies of today, have been and will forever be the common plight of Oceanic Peoples so long as an Alien Tyrant assumes authority and right to murder, tax, and rape the Patriotic Peoples of Tangaloa.

In the form of Education, Currency, and Manpower: the Tangaloan Revolution for National Democracy shall signal the end of Albion Hypocrisy, and the glorious launch of Oceanic Unity as a proactive force for eternal freedoms.

For every vote pledged: your Cannie Cousins shall commit a rifle to the fight for Tangaloan Independence.

For every Anglysh Uniform captured: the Patriot & Hero responsible shall receive a months pay, rations, and petroleum.

For every Alien Barracks or Building captured: the Patriot & Hero responsible shall earn the deed of ownership in a post-Imperial Tangaloa.

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Like us Men and Women, Sons and Daughters, of Oceania anticipate Paradise with open arms. We warmly wish for the date and time where Freedom Reigns in Tangaloa and all of Oceania, as it has begun to in Cantigny now.

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Forward Tangaloa,
Felix Ilchester
Patriot & Friend for all Oceania

'For every Alien Barracks or Building captured: the Patriot & Hero responsible shall earn the deed of ownership in a post-Imperial Tangaloa' is especially interesting as it indicates that Felix Ilchester and his Patriot & Friend for all Oceania expect it will be they who will be holding that deed, for how else can they offer it in payment for the services rendered?

Miguel Hernadez-Alvarado
Dirección General de Relaciones Exteriores,
República de Barbossa

 

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Office for Foreign Affairs

The True Peace is an Oceania without Alien Garrisons from the Kingdom of Anglyn. This Office heartily encourages Barbossa to accept an invitation to Vesper, where we might further clarify the details of our foreign policy within Cantigny's region, and far across the Implarian where the Republic of Barbossa exists in lull between cultural and racial worlds.

Forward Cantigny!
Benjamin Stokes,
Chief Officer

 

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Secretariate d'Affaires Étrangères
Secretariate of Foreign Affairs

It has been the observation of the Grand Ducal government that it is Her Majesty's colonial government in Vesper that is the instigator in this so-called crisis and the deployment of Engellex naval forces will only exasperate the situation.

Henri Mercier, chevalier de l'Ordre du Templiers
Secrétaire d'Affaires Étrangères
Grand Duché d'Aquitania

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DULWICH, SATURDAY, 28th MAY 2011
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The Right Honourable The Secretary of State has received the Command of Her Engellexic Majesty The Queen to make known the following gracious Statement of Her Engellexic Majesty to the Sovereign, the Government and the People of the Grand Duchy of Aquitaine.​

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Extension of The Queen's Statement in Council.​

TO THE SOVEREIGN, THE GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE OF THE GRAND DUCHY OF AQUITAINE​

I am instructed to express on behalf of Her Engellexic Majesty;

The Queen has determined to her ministers that it would be most difficult to find understanding on a matter of democracy and freedom with an autocratic theocratic monarchy, to suggest that the Grandy Duchy of Aquitaine may adopt the morally superior position on this situation is quite extraordinary.

As to the fact of the matter regards to Engellexic naval deployments to the Karoskland Territory - which is actually not within the Implaric Oceanic Territory - it has to be said, would the Grand Duke not also desire to reassure his people on their security, indeed.

It is sincerely hoped that a following communication from the Grand Duchy will be sensible and considerate.

By the Grace of GOD, of the UNION of GREAT ENGELLEX, CHARLOTTE, the QUEEN, through the Right Honourable the SECRETARY of STATE, ANTHONY PELHAM-HOLLES​

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পররাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রক
Ministry of External Affairs

The increased deployment of warships in Oceania by Engellex is disturbingly reminiscent of the 19th century gunboat diplomacy that led to the establishment of concession cities like Bombaim. White imperialist powers like Engellex must abandon their meddling foreign policies and allow the peoples of Oceania, Toyou and elsewhere to determine their own futures.

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DULWICH, SATURDAY, 28th MAY 2011
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The Right Honourable The Secretary of State has received the Command of Her Engellexic Majesty The Queen to make known the following gracious Statement of Her Engellexic Majesty to the Princes and Chiefs of Vangala.​

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Extension of The Queen's Statement in Council.​

TO THE PRINCES AND CHIEFS OF VANGALA​

I am instructed to express on behalf of Her Engellexic Majesty;

That, it should be understood that her Majesty has directed myself the Secretary for the Southern Department to enter into communications with the Governments of Anglyn and of Franken, and endeavour to prevent a rivalry of war-like preparations in this time of peace, and to promote a mutual respect of security for ones people. I premise that, in speaking of war-like preparations, I allude not to armies, which in the Implaric Oceanic Territory are maintained throughout the Anglysh Territories for the suppression of domestic foes, but to navies and fortifications.

It should then be seen in the European Defence Federation, not like Great Engellex, the navy estimates were borne with reference of projection capability against other states; the consequence of this policy was not only to cause great irritation, but to encourage the escalation of circumstances, and provoke other nations, to reason the domestic opinion that such estimates are needed. The Royal Engellexic Navy was established on defensive ideals, it is why you will find no air power projection capability greater than a light helicopter carrier. With this in mind, we urge you to make an intent observation on the actions of the Vangalan former colonial master: the Kingdom of Franken.

Will it not be possible to put a stop to this odious display of intimidation from an alliance that holds no understanding on the principles of democracy? I can suggest no specific form of action to achieve this; it is only encouraged that the diplomacy of the European Defence Force should put itself more in harmony with the spirit of the age.

It is hoped that the Vangalan ministry will be favourable to the principle of our resolution.

By the Grace of GOD, of the UNION of GREAT ENGELLEX, CHARLOTTE, the QUEEN, through the Right Honourable the SECRETARY of STATE, EDWARD PEEL​

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Directorate of Foreign Relations
Republic of Barbossa

The Republic of Barbossa must object to the Engellexic government's obvious attempt to intimidate any of those who might voice oposition to the Catigny Chancellor's Pan Implarian ambition..... or is this a visible indication of Imperial Engellexic ambitions?

Miguel Hernadez-Alvarado
Dirección General de Relaciones Exteriores,
República de Barbossa

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DULWICH, SATURDAY, 28th MAY 2011
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The Right Honourable The Secretary of State has received the Command of Her Engellexic Majesty The Queen to make known the following gracious Statement of Her Engellexic Majesty to the Princes and Chiefs of Barbossa.​

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Extension of The Queen's Statement in Council.​

TO THE PRINCES AND CHIEFS OF BARBOSSA​

I am instructed to express on behalf of Her Engellexic Majesty;

That the Union of Great Engellex does not maintain diplomatic arrangements recognising the autocratic state, the Republic of Barbossa.

Due this, it would be incorrect to acknowledge a statement received by responding to the concern.

By the Grace of GOD, of the UNION of GREAT ENGELLEX, CHARLOTTE, the QUEEN, through the Right Honourable the SECRETARY of STATE, EDWARD PEEL​

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THE FREE GUARDIAN​

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GREAT DEMONSTRATION​

A DEMONSTRATION THE QUEEN CAN BE PROUD OF TO SUPPORT
By Alexander E. T. Denning
At the request of the Editor-in-Chief I marched with the great Suffrage Demonstration, this morning, in their triumphant procession through Dulwich, from the front of the Royal Palace at Dulwich to the seat of Parliament. I shall sum up in a single phrase, Banners and Banter, may be said to have been the principle characteristics of the day.

The procession was remarkable not only for the exceptionally large number of women of all classes who marched in its ranks, but also for the unusually numerous crowds of sightseers who thronged the whole of the route and treated the suffragettes to good-natured examples of their wit. The latter was of a poorer quality than is usually to be met with in Dulwich crowds, owing to the magnificent organisation of the procession, which converted into expressions of admiration of the Queen’s support, the jibes and jests seen had been prepared by smart young men. But the banners were the thing. Never before, probably, have so many banners been seen in one demonstration. They caused most of the fun, too, for the poor dear girls were very expert at carrying them, and the middle-aged ones had great ovations from the members of the crowds.

When you get two middle-aged and eminently respectable ladies staggering up the Wolssex Road aginst the wind, with six feet or so of bunting on bamboo poles, which threatens at every step to capsize upon them, you cannot be surprised if the rude small boys in the crowds make merry at their expense. No man need have apologised for having a sister or an aunt in that procession, wrote one enthusiastic reporter this afternoon. Personally, I would go farther, I would not have minded, although, perchance, I might have apologised, if I had had half a dozen darlings in the show. In fact, I should have rather liked it.

It would rather have been liked to have a national broadcasting of the very serious, spectacled ladies, striding along with great dignity, holding aloft a small wooden rod, like a frail fishing pole, with a small square of banner on the end of it, as it was quite equally funny. Some of the banners were quite beautifully decorated, although somewhat puzzling to the Dulwich working masses, who were observing along the route. A long list of towns appeared on the banners - Dulwich, Peterloo, Great Wixmouth, Wightmaarken, Baden, Sutherland, Weybourne, Wells, Lewes-Bassett, and of course the metropolis of Hammersmith, were some of the places which up sent up contingents to help in voicing the GREAT DEMAND for equal rights for both sexes. Some branches emphasised their demand.

Humberside, the textile industrial heartland of Great Engellex, had a charming banner, woven by local weavers, which bore the words :- Weaving fair and weaving free, Union’s industry of destiny. Great Wixmouth demanded the vote now, and Bramstowe said :- Free Democracy!. The League of Free Women were headed by a large banner bearing the name of Lady Constance Pentham. Striding ahead of the banner of the League was in fact Lady Constance Pentham, behind her marched other significant ladies of the League.

Considering the many hours which had been occupied in marshalling the procession, the ladies stood the long journey remarkably well. The procession assembled on the square of Queen Adelaide before Parliament soon after three o’clock, the ladies on foot collecting beneath their many banners in several sections - township societies, overseas and international societies, professional sections, the League of Free Women, the Association of Professional Women, and the Imperial Society for the Welfare of Women. Soon after the organisation of the assembly before parliament, a series of speeches were head from society’s most prominent leaders of the suffrage movement. The procession was elaborately organised, but it lost somewhat in impressiveness from the fact that, by reason of the impossibility of holding up the traffic all day, pedestrian observers of the demonstration found it difficult to witness the speeches and singing from across the street. By six o’clock the thick crowds that followed them disappeared, however leaving a very strong presence of many hundreds within Queen Adelaide Square.

 

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DULWICH, SATURDAY, 28th MAY 2011
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The Right Honourable The Secretary of State has received the Command of Her Engellexic Majesty The Queen to make known the following gracious Statement of Her Engellexic Majesty to the Princes and Chiefs of Barbossa.​

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Extension of The Queen's Statement in Council.​

TO THE PRINCES AND CHIEFS OF BARBOSSA​

I am instructed to express on behalf of Her Engellexic Majesty;

That the Union of Great Engellex does not maintain diplomatic arrangements recognising the autocratic state, the Republic of Barbossa.

Due this, it would be incorrect to acknowledge a statement received by responding to the concern.

By the Grace of GOD, of the UNION of GREAT ENGELLEX, CHARLOTTE, the QUEEN, through the Right Honourable the SECRETARY of STATE, EDWARD PEEL​

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Directorate of Foreign Relations
Republic of Barbossa

With such a response, the Republic of Barbossa can only surmise that it is correct in its conclusion concerning the Engellex imperial ambitions.

Miguel Hernadez-Alvarado
Dirección General de Relaciones Exteriores,
República de Barbossa

 

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DULWICH EVENING DISPATCH​

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BADEN MILITARY INSPECTION
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ARMED FORCES TOUR

Inspection of garrisons at Baden. the Grand Duchy of Wantage

Ten thousand men of the 32nd and 33rd Regiments of Foot, of the Grand Duke of Wantage’s Own, garrisoned within the city of Baden at the Royal Montrose Barracks and Royal Baden Barracks, are part of the forty thousand troops stationed within the Grand Duchy of Wantage, near Montelimar, had paraded through the city of Baden on Sunday. Formed in three columns - which stretched for a considerable distance - these troops of the city garrisons helped make a stirring scene for the city population, the Grand Duke, and the Queen. The consort of the Grand Duke, the Grand Duchess Eugenie de Dreux-en-Clois commented that it was comforting to see a single town produce such a fine army.

Queen Charlotte, with the Grand Duke of Wantage alongside, reviewed the troops from the balcony of the Provincial Palace at Baden, the official residence of the Grand Duke. General Sir Eduard Frederick Thomson looking every bit the fearless general bestrode a respectable steed to lead the parade, and with him, also mounted, were Colonel Osbourne, Colonel Clement, Colonel Maurice, Colonel Darling, Colonel Cleese, Captain Reeves, Captain Hughes, and Major-General Watson. The cannons at the Common War Memorial fired, and again and again, continuously through the duration of the march as a Royal Salute. As the troops passed the balcony they faced and saluted to their sovereign; Queen Charlotte. Out on the palace gardens behind the building, the ten thousand troops formed into five lines stretching from end to end, they were awaiting for the private inspection and address of the Queen.

Eagerly accorded were three cheers for the Queen as the last number of troops left the public sight into the privacy of the palace grounds. Afterwards the massed military bands in the palace court played the National Anthem, and all male heads in the public crowds were uncovered from their hats. Indeed, the Queen’s Armed Forces tour in Baden was now over; and to commemorate the occasion Baden Common was renamed to Queen Charlotte Park.

ENGELLEXIC-BANTYRIC TRADE TREATY​

A conclusion to the conduct of commercial negotiations between Great Engellex and Bantyr.

The House of Lords was informed on Friday last on the conclusion of the Bantyric commercial negotiations conducted by her Majesty’s ministers, which has resulted in the signature of a treaty, which Queen Charlotte trusts will place the commercial relations between Great Engellex and her northern partner on a greatly improved footing. The main provisions of this convention is to grant particular Engellexic produce and manufactures a favourable position to enter the Bantyric market by way of beneficial tariff revisions. Particular industries and exports to find potential advances in Bantyr include many of the nation’s agricultural exports, particular manufactures of the rail and shipbuilding industries, textiles and other wares. Her Majesty and ministers on their part, in addition to the continuance of support to the struggling northern economy, engage to apply to Parliament for the necessary sanction to extend an application of considerate tariff revisions on particular Bantyric imports.

The President for the Public Board of Trade sincerely hopes that these provisions will largely benefit our trade, and that the disabilities under which the agricultural and manufacturing exports have laboured under will become few. The treaty will remain in force till 2026, and is capable and likely of indefinite prolongation. The sanction of the Bantyric parliament has been received, with the treaty coming into effect as soon as approved by Parliament in Dulwich, it is believed that no difficulty should be encountered in obtaining parliamentary assent, which is manifestly for the benefit of both countries, and which will doubtless strengthen the cordial relations which exist between Great Engellex and the Celtic States, as well as improve the diplomatic standing of Dulwich in the region.

The papers will be laid on the table in the House of Lords on Wednesday.

 

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DULWICH EVENING DISPATCH​

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STATE VISIT
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LORD-PROTECTOR OF VISTRASIA RECEIVED BY THE QUEEN

The Lord-Protector of Vistrasia, David van Cortenbach, was received in a great occasion by her Majesty the Queen and the people of Dulwich.

Splendid. That is the verdict not only of the entire Engellexic press, but of the people of the metropolis of Dulwich, on the Lord-Protector’s visit. The city became a centre of patriotic excellence in its welcome to the Vistrasian head of state. The cafes, restaurants, and shops of central Dulwich were adorned with the flags of Great Engellex and Vistrasia. Congregations of people sang their joy, and on the Portobello Circus, which was closed, balls and dancing were swiftly organised, and Engellexic nationals, including tens of thousands from the border regions of Westmooreland, waltzed until late in the evening.

The note of simplicity which marked her Majesty’s description to Parliament on how she intended the reception to proceed was loosely maintained. The first engagement of the Queen and the Lord-Protector, once he was received at the Royal Palace, was to inspect a march past of the Royal Innswoortshire Regiment of Foot, from the Duke of Westmooreland’s Own, as well as the Royal Howdenshire Regiment of Foot and the Royal Ouse-Derwentshire Regiment of Foot, from the Queen of Engellex’ Own, which amounted to the inspection of almost 15,000 servicemen in Dulwich. The planned fly-past of the squadrons of the Royal Engellexic Air Force was cancelled, to her Majesty’s regret, following poor weather. The military band of the Golsoncott Guards struck up the national anthem of Vistrasia, and then followed with own national anthem on the court before the façade of the Royal Palace.

This corner of the metropolis of Great Engellex had been established a Dutch colony of sorts, and was excellently lively. There was a simple ceremony in the southern court of the palace, but it was representative of the Dutch community residing within Dulwich. The band of the Golsoncott Guards had moved to the rear of the palace to perform at this ceremony, attending from the community was the Duke and Duchess of Westmooreland; Gerard van Hermert tot Ittswijk of the Westmooreland Chambers of Commerce & Industry; Martijn van der Oldenzeel, the president of the Ducal Steel & Coal Estates; Lord and Lady Roosmalden; Lord and Lady van Asbeck en Brommel; Lord van Gericke; Geerd van Soudwik, president of the Great Westmooreland Railway; Berend Hendrik, Count Gustaaf van Nijenhuis, Colonel of the Regiment in the Duke of Westmooreland’s Own.

Shortly after arriving her Majesty rose to toast her guest, the Lord-Protector with the following speech :- Your Highness, the Lord-Protector, it is difficult for me to adequately express the great and sincere pleasure that I feel on behalf of myself and my people in welcoming you’re here to-day, in this great and fair metropolis, and to share joy in that welcome with the great nation with whom Great Engellex, in her past, mingled our sorrows, our joys, and most importantly our triumphant glory’s over common enemies. I thank you, Lord-Protector, and the noble Vistrasian people for what had been achieved in our history and what will be achieved now, from your visit here. In the life and death conflict in which our nations had been together engaged in absolute unity, a renewed sense of profound trust must be found as to allow us together to ensure the continuation of civilisation and liberty in Preuti-Borussia, and Europe.

Our shared history has created a union of hearts and of interests that, I trust, will ever grow closer and contribute to the continuation of peace and to the advancement of civilisation. - I call on all those here present to-day to drink to the health of the Lord-Protector of the Commonwealth of Vistrasia, and to the happiness and prosperity of the Vistrasian people.

The Queen held a State Ball in the evening in the Royal Palace at Dulwich. His Highness the Lord-Protector arrived from an engagement at the Vistrasian Embassy at eight o’clock, attended by Gentlemen-in-Waiting, and escorted by a detachment of the Imperial Household Calvary.

REPUBLIC OF BANTYR

QUEEN TO HEAD ROYAL DELEGATION OF TRADE IN BANGLEANN​

The Queen, the Northern Secretary, and the President of the Board of Public Trade, attended by H.E.M.S. Sovereign, will leave Hammersmith in the afternoon of the 3rd of July from the Republic of Bantyr. The Royal Delegation of Trade will leave Hammersmith after dinner, and northward to the republic under naval escort to Bantyr, which will be made in the early morning of the next day. Her Majesty and her delegation will enjoy breakfast and sleep on H.E.M.S. Sovereign, and on landing at the northern republic they will drive to the Engellexic Embassy in Bangleann, which will be reached before the afternoon.

Owing to the arrival of visitoes from all parts of Engellex, and the Union, and to the rapid approach towards completion of the arrangements for her Majesty’s visit to Bantyr, Hammersmith to-day presented a singularly animated and attractive appearance. The principal thoroughfares were a moving picture of life and colour, which gave one a faint suggestion of the scene which the streets may be expected to present on the day of the Queen’s departure.

 

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FOREIGN OFFICE
VESPER : : 21 JUNE, 2011
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THE Commonwealth is purposefully enthralled by the Mother Country, and its choice selection of diplomatic association with the Commonwealth of Vistrasia. Cantigny views the Cedar Islands, an Oceanic Comrade to us all, as the key to ensuring the True Peace in the Implarian in our time. Great Pride in our National Hospitality can be drawn from Vistrasia's successful visit to Dulwich, Engellex as we keenly anticipate their arrival in Vesper, Cantigny later this summer.

Forward Cantigny!
Benjamin Stokes,
Chief Officer

ooc: played the 21 June response to align with the timeline
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DULWICH EVENING DISPATCH​

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ENGELLEX-VISTRASIA
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MINISTERIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS RESPECTING THE STATE VISIT

The Cabinet Office published papers in recognition of the Vistrasian State Visit, and the House of Lords sees a Bill in appreciation of the event.

The ministerial papers published to-day profess to be greatly pleased with the progress of the Vistrasian State Visit, considering it highly honourable to Great Engellex, and arguing that the Vistrasian Commonwealth has succeeded in occupying a fitting and proper position of consideration by Dulwich in the Preuti-Borussian question, and with possibility as a direct participator to engage with for regional security programmes. There are reservations which Parliament expresses in respect to political engagement with Vistrasia, and are held to be perfectly natural and reasonable when differences in national character are observed – the more so, indeed, as they fully correspond with the independent judgement which Great Engellex has rightfully reserved for herself in respect of the criticism made by Threveburg in response to the strengthening of economic and security relations with the Republic of Bantyr.

A Bill put to the House of Lords seeks to recognise, with thanks and satisfaction, in the propositions recommended by Great Engellex to Vistrasia, and vice versa, and accepted by both Heads of State, the base upon which the restoration of an admirable relationship may be rendered at once possible and durable; that their Lordships look upon an excellent improvement of economic cooperation as a necessity for Preuti-Borussia; and that, consequently, the Parliament of Great Engellex will also deem it a duty upon itself to uphold these bases – at the same time reserving to itself an independent judgement in respect of the special considerations that will be brought to it by allied powers not recognised by Threveburg. Now all this may read very well on paper, but it must be admitted that the successes of the State Visit in question is not far-reaching enough in the event of peace collapsing in Preuti-Borussia from the posturing of the European Defence Federation.

There is consequently but little change of foreign policy direction of the Union attached to the Bill passing through the House of Lords. We may look upon this Bill as an additional proof that the present interest of Great Engellex with the Republic of Bantyr are intended to carry on by Dulwich in good earnest; or else, their Lordships and Parliament would assuredly have acted differently in advising her Majesty on independent judgement, when appealed to by Vistrasia.

The President of the Board of Public Trade testified to the Commons Assembly to the successes of the State Visit in respect of economic achievements. Trade between the Commonwealth and the Union should find itself freer to participate in and easier as tariffs will be subjected to a reduction across a wide reach of manufactures from Great Engellex and Vistrasia. The shipbuilding industries of Hammersmith will receive an improvement in business activity as contracts were signed for the construction of two County-Class Destroyers. The President acknowledged that the decision to release the nation’s aviation industry from restrictions to particular Vistrasian investment was taken with great consideration by her Majesty and ministers; but ultimately found to well within the economic interest of the nation. A confirmation was also received by the Commons on her Majesty’s intentions to approach Parliament to approve of estimates needed to finance key public works projects, specifically, the high speed rail connection between Engelwijk and Threveburg.

The Lord Chamberlain announced to-day that her Majesty the Queen has been pleased to introduce his Highness the Lord-Protector of Vistrasia as a Stranger Knight of the Most Noble and Excellent Royal Guelphic Order in recognition of services rendered by him to the state of Great Engellex.

The Lord-Protector departed Great Engellex on 22 June to continue his European tour, her Majesty hosted a State Dinner in his Highness honour the evening before.

WARTIME INDUSTRY​

PRESIDENT OF TRADE ADDRESSES WARTIME INDUSTRY

The President for the Board of Public Trade made a speech to-day at the National Conference of Manufacturers in Sutherland, the industrial heartland of Great Engellex. His main points concerning her Majesty’s trade policy were :-

An agreement between Great Engellex and the Northern Council on economic policy is vital.

Essential national industries must be strengthened. Past industrial policies must be reviewed to recognise present realities.

Raw materials and transportation systems in place for wartime manufacturing will be reviewed by ministers, and departmental recommendations enacted.​

The President, who was received with loud applause, said that he was very pleased to have an opportunity of meeting so influential a representation of some of the greatest industries in the country, because, before her Majesty’s ministers could announce policies upon these grave matters, which affected the future of this land, it was essential that they should make themselves acquainted with the views of practical men connected with our great industries. He continued to say that, if ministers had not made any announcements up to the present, nor sought more frequent opportunity for consultation, it was that her Majesty’s minister’s time was absorbed with much more immediate problems.

We have identified industries in this country that are essential not merely from the commercial point of view, but from the point of view of national defence and security. Under no condition, and whatever it costs, should we let those industries depress now or in the future. We must be in agreement in your trust with our efforts that there will be no dislocation of industry. There will be arrears of work for the arms industry which it will need time to cover, this need to facilitate the expansion of the national arms industry will not be at the expense of any other industry. The great difficulty of implementing our policies will be raw material: where to get it, and how to get it. To coincide with this is the transport difficulty. Special considerations will be required of a totally different approach than past industry policies advocated.

The People of our industries, of Great Engellex should not make the mistake of being ignorant to the benefits of industrial partnership and so dismiss it. It is vital that when the transition period has come, when there will be doubts, we must keep the partnership strong. I am in full agreement with the principles laid down in Dulwich. It is the only way in which we can secure absolute national unity.

When her Majesty’s ministers come to make their statement I shall be very surprised if you are not quite satisfied with the statement to be made.

((OOC :- A news post for 22 JUNE 2011, will get to the present TO-MORROW. Thanks))

 

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DULWICH EVENING DISPATCH​

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DULWICH 4 JULY HEADLINES
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THE QUEEN COMMENCES TRADE DELEGATION TO BANTYR

The Queen has departed with the Trade Delegation for the Republic of Bantyr, and will be arriving this late-afternoon by H.E.M.S. Sovereign.

This morning, her Majesty the Queen departed Newcastle Street Station in the afternoon by the Royal Carriage for Aldwych where she will board the Royal Yacht to take her to Hammersmith in order to join her Majesty’s Ship Sovereign for the purpose of leading the Engellexic Trade Delegation to the Republic of Bantyr. The Queen was accompanied by the Grand Duchess of Wantage and the Dowager Duchess of Hountton-Wolssex, as well as the President of the Board of Public Trade and his ministerial entourage. They were attended by Captain Charles Napier, Commander Colville, Colonel Hammond, and Admiral Lord Charles Munsen-Kappel and Lady Munsen-Kappel. Among those present to witness her departure were Prince and Princess of Harcourt, Princess Louisa of Wolssex, Robert and Matilda of Harcourt, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, the Earl of Rathmore, Princess Caroline and the Earl of Hamlowe, the Count of Ripon, and the Cannie and Bantyric Ambassadors.

The departure platform was reserved for the distinguished spectators, but a large crowd assembled outside the approaches, and gave a hearty cheer as the train moved off. The delegation arrived at Aldwych at 14:10, and Hammersmith at 16:40. After enjoying afternoon tea with the Admiral of the Port, her Majesty and the Trade Delegation left in Sovereign for Bantyr.

ARMY AND NAVAL DISPATCHES

NAVAL CONSIDERATIONS AT WEYBOURNE

Overtime is to be worked on the repairs of the frigates Tormentor and Torrent at Weybourne, in order that the vessels may be out of the dockyard hands by the end of month, when they will immediately re-join the Engellexic Greater Home Fleet. The Tormentor, which was detached from the fleet last November for patrol duty between Bimbeck and Engellex, really rendered very little service in that capacity. In March she arrived at Weybourne with her hull in a defective condition, the cause of complaint being a navigational error that caused a collision. During the enforced stay of the Tormentor and Torrent at Weybourne, the dockyard hands worked exceedingly well in rendering valuable service to repair the two damaged vessels. It is understood that the War Secretary seeks to clear dry docks for future construction projects of the Royal Engellexic Navy quite soon.

POLITICAL AND FRANCHISE REFORM

PARLIAMENTARIANS CONVENE TO ENCOURAGE PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR THE EXTENSION

A meeting convened by the North Heathstead Conservative League took place last night at the Chesterfield Assembly Hall, presided over by Mr. J. S. Sainsbury, M.A. Amongst those present were Mr. W. H. Smith, M.A., Mr. A. E. Lewis, M.A., and many well known local politicians. The Chairman in opening the proceedings said the question now before the country was one of supreme importance, not alone to every constituency, but to every individual Crown Subject. They said they were not entering into this controversy with any anger, but with a deep sense of responsibility and duty, and a desire to do the right. A socialist objector demonstrated that the object of the Pitts was to rouse old animosities and ill-feeling, and to renew again those class differences which continue to exist. The Chairman denied that proposition entirely.

Only a few months ago, in the discussion on the Women’s Suffrage Bill, Mr. J. S. Sainsbury appealed to the hardliner Pitts to consider the appetite of her Majesty’s subjects for franchise extension and political reform. It was not the Queen or her ministers which opposed the extension of the franchise, but the ambitions of the Whig Party and the old vanguard of the Pitt Party. The liberty the Queen wished to give to the women of Great Engellex was the right to express political opinion at the ballot, to possess and to hold property in the same manner that men in this country can. In the course of his speech he said he did not believe in the alleged imminence of social decline due to women’s rights, because there could be little doubt that this was the right and just course that should be taken by the country; it was a correct act of reform.

Many Members of the Assembly have been convening meetings such as these with their constituents to encourage greater public support for the extension of the franchise. The Home Secretary responded to such actions within the House of Lords as encouraging and righteous.

((OOC :- A news post for 4 JULY 2011))