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DULWICH EVENING DISPATCH

THURSDAY • JANUARY 5 • 2012​

LORD MAYOR'S NEW YEAR DINNER​

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The long established custom of the chief magistrate of the imperial metropolis extending the hospitalities of the Lord Mayor’s House to the members of the Cabinet, chief members of Parliament, Society and commerce and industry to usher in the New Year, was honoured last evening. The scene of the entertainment was, as expected, a triumphant bustle of brilliant costume within the gorgeously decorated halls of the House in Dulwich. The company, which assembled that evening, included Field Marshal Arthur Batten-Lyon the Duke of Rothermere and the Duchess of Rothermere, Charles Foster the Earl of Onslow and the Countess of Onslow, Thomas Grey the Earl Grey and the Countess Grey, Sir Anthony Pelham-Holles and Lady Pelham-Holles, Sir Edward Peel and Lady Peel, Edward Russel the Earl Russel and Countess Russel, the Earl and Countess of Clanricarde, the Earl and Countess of Hobercorn, the Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, the Marquis and Marchioness of Hanmerston, the Marquis and Marchioness of Breadelbane, the Duc and Duchess de Fontaine-Harcourt, the Earl and Countess of Hamworth, Lord and Lady van del Dool, Lord and Lady Buxton-Laud, Lord and Lady Asquith, Lord and Lady Raikes-Bellew, Lord and Lady van Teske, Lord and Lady Colebrooke, Lord and Lady Villiers, Lord and Lady van Woerden. The Charge d’Affaires of Greater Sarmatia, Vistrasia, Breotonia, Arendaal, Potenza, and Sorlandeten also attend.* Upwards of ninety-five distinguished guests attended. The bill of fare embraced the delicacies of every region of Great Engellex, including Montelimar. The selection was from the cuisine of Sirs Conder and Fawcott of Bicester, to whom were entrusted the arrangements for the more solid part of the Dinner and Ball. After the dinner the Lord Mayor proceeded with the traditional toasts.

The Lord Mayor rose and said :- My Lords, Ladies, and gentlemen, it will be my duty to propose to you on this auspicious occasion several toasts for your approbation. The first in the order will of course be the health of our most gracious imperial Majesty the Queen-Empress. I am certainly pleased to confirm that the people of Dulwich have always been proud of their loyalty and attachment to the person of the sovereign, and I can hardly conceive a time when that loyalty and attachment should be more fervent that at the present moment in our national struggle. It requires, therefore, I am certain, no comment from me to enlist your cordial and hearty concurrence in this toast. My Lords, Ladies, and gentlemen, I give you the health of our most gracious imperial Majesty, and long may she live to reign over a happy, free and enlightened people. The toast was drunk with loyal honours, and was followed with the National Anthem. The Lord Mayor next gave the toast to the Royal Engellexic Army, the Royal Engellexic Navy, and the Royal Air Fore, which the Duke of Rothermere respectively acknowledged as Chief of the Imperial Staff and the Secretary of State of War. The anthem to her Majesty’s Royal Engellexic Armed Forces followed after honours. The Lord Mayor again rose and spoke as follows :- My Lords, Ladies, and gentlemen, I am aware it is unnecessary for me to call your attention at any length to the toast I am now about to propose, I may however say that though this is not all a political

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meeting - that we are not assembled on this occasion for any political purpose - but that it is one of the most distinguished privileges of the chief magistrate of this metropolis to have the honour of entertaining the Ministers of the Queen-Empress her Majesty. I am one of those who think it the duty of all good subjects, high and low, to obey the power and majesty of the sovereign and to co-operate with the ministers of the sovereign in balance with our duty to Parliament in the promotion of the public good as far as possible. I know that at this particular period it must appear, not to this noble assembly only, but to the empire at large, that we are all deeply indebted to her Majesty and, of course, the Ministers of the Queen-Empress. It is my sincere belief, and I hesitate not to declare it, that they are actuated by the purest and most patriotic motives, and that their most anxious desire is to promote the best interests of the empire and, without any doubt, Preuti-Borussia. Therefore it is that I have great pleasure and I feel it a high honour to have the honour of proposing the healths of my distinguished guests - her Majesty’s Ministers, and with that the Cabinet of the Queen-Empress of the Empire of Great Engellex. The toast was responded to with much cheering, and was succeeded with the National Anthem. Standing up once more the Lord Mayor introduced the final part of his New Years Speech. My Lords, Ladies, and gentlemen, we can all recollect that on the evening preceding the 5th of January, 2011, there were doubts, misgivings, and fears that there might be some violation of the Continental Peace; and many were apprehensive that loss of the jealously guarded liberty and sovereignty even might ensue on that year. But on the evening of the Federation’s daring invasion of the Kingdom of Solaren we found ourselves reinforced with a confidence never before felt by the nation - confidence, I will venture to say, not from the Armed Forces maintained throughout the Empire, though that force did with unparalleled courage it’s duty in the nation’s and Europe’s cause - not on account of the presence of those Armed Forces, but because the Queen-Empress herself soared. Her Majesty soared not to cause, but to prevent, imperial war against Preuti-Borussia. Her Majesty soared to maintain, not to subvert, the sovereignty of the independent and unaligned nations.

I trust that should the occasion of war extend further that the same spirit will be strengthened by a rebirth of the national effort of war to encompass every class, rank, religion, gender, and race; and that knowing the benefits we enjoy under our free government we shall always be ready to defend it in its integrity, and to transmit the benefits of our free institutions to those now liberated peoples. My Lords, Ladies, and gentlemen, we are now about to welcome the annexation of Flanders-Hainaut into our enlightened empire. I know it has been said, and rumoured that advantage will be taken of that event by some of those foreigners - formally occupying that province - who will come to Great Engellex through this province, to disturb our internal peace; but I feel confident that will be preserved, not only by the vigilance of the Royal Constabularies, but also because I feel that any who should attempt to disturb the peace, would be condemned by the universal voice of mankind as guilty of the greatest violation of our sacred laws of hospitality. On the great occasion which draws nearer to us, when those who are about to visit and be part of this country, never having had occasion to be in Great Engellex before, shall see with admiration the extent of our trade and commerce and industry, shall see a thriving population, they will have reason to be convinced that there must be something excellent in the laws, something excellent in the spirit, something excellent in the traditions of the people, and be full of gratitude at our welcoming them to our Empire. In this imperial metropolis I am sure they will be surprised with the cordial and equalled reception, unseen of in Nuremberg; and I have no doubt they will have reason to be grateful for the generosity and splendid warmth that will be exhibited by this powerful city to them. [...] Continues on Page 3. Lord Mayor of Hammersmith's Speech Page 2. King of Walssex-Battent's New Year's Address Page 5. Foreign Correspondence & Speeches of the New Year Page 6.

*This should be acknowledged as being published on the 5th January; those nations reported to have attended, if you feel the invitation would have been rejected then I will change it.

 

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ENGELLEXIC BROADCASTING COMMISSION

WEDNESDAY • JANUARY 11 • 2012​

THE QUEEN-EMPRESS NEW YEAR BROADCAST TO CANTIGNY

It has now been several years since I last visited Vesper; and though it was strange for me at the time, I felt at home there, for I were among people who are my own people and whose affectionate greeting I shall remember all my life. You surrounded me with kindness and friendship, establishing firmly my trust, admiration and affection for - you - the Cannie people. To all of us there is nothing quite like the family gathering in familiar surroundings; family in which we are, and surroundings which I hope you find familiar. When it is night when wind and rain beat upon the window, the family is most conscious of the warmth and peacefulness that surround the pleasant fireplace. So, our Imperial Family becomes more precious than ever before by the contrast between its homely security and the storms which sometimes seems to be brewing outside against us, in the darkness of uncertainty and doubt that soon envelops the whole of Europe. In the turbulence of this anxious and destructive world many people are leading dangerous lives. To them dishonour, not death, is their enemy. They seldom realise that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the destructions of war and on their courage in overcoming great challenges, depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of not only Great Engellex, and Cantigny, but Europe as a whole. We praise - and rightly so - the heroes whose resource and courage shine so brilliantly in moments of national and international crisis. We forget sometimes that behind the wearers of the Charlotte Cross there stand ranks of unknown, unnamed men and women, willing and quite able, if that call should come, to render valiant service to Country, Empire and Europe. I have been amazed by the progressive achievements in policy - domestic and regional - economic development, education and industry in Cantigny, which should bring good comfort and some leisure to millions of Cannies in these difficult and trying times. It is not always reflected that such achievements have rested to a degree on the loyal toil and devotion to civic duty by the great masses of ordinary Cannie people. The forward course of Cantigny has been and will continue to be in due of the soundness of heart of the average Cannie man and woman; this forward determination is a source of inspiration here in the imperial metropolis. And so it is that this New Year’s Beginning I want to send a special message of encouragement and good cheer to a people of a brave southern nation that is too often cast down by those backward societies that are too many. Cantigny should remember it is always of real importance and in always having the respect of her imperial family, the Empire of Great Engellex.

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Closed Circuit Telegram
From Her Royal Highness
Alice
The Crimson Queen of Cantignia & the Oceanic Realms

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Beloved Charlotte,

It has only ever been from the Engellexic Crown that I draw strength. For Your strength, dearest Charlotte, is the strength of the Cantigian people, and all patriotic people of the Oceanic Realms. Over the course of this past year, a year of Imperial Strength, the Cantigian Patriot has gladly accepted the responsibilities of Karoskland and the increased maritime oversight of Wightland and other realms left vulnerable by World War. From our closer vantage point, we have been able to begin identifying dark cysts and infections that have been passed through your precious Empire by deviants and the impure.

In the year twenty-twelve, one of Victory for Engellex over Montelimar, it absolutely must become our most profound duty to remember precisely where we come from, and what other active responsibilities come with possessing the purest gene. God-willing, this will be a year of peace and celebration of our spectacular Can-Engellexic culture ; if called however, the Armies and Navies of the Oceanic Covenant shall rise valiantly like the Hydra itself - trained and prepared to engage the eternal enemies of the Empire.

Forward the Empire,
Admiring always,
Alice
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DULWICH EVENING DISPATCH

TUESDAY • JANUARY 24 • 2012​

ANNEXATION OF FLANDERS-HAINAUT​

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It is a remarkable coincidence that whilst a considerable partition of the people of Humberside and Sutherland are energetically striving to cause national embarrassment to the Empire abroad, the annexation of the Great Province of Flanders-Hainaut should have taken place with the general approval of the people – against the backdrop of much pomp and pageantry, of course. The discussions taking place in the imperial metropolis is of the violent actions to promote discord amongst the people in Humberside and Sutherland, whilst in another place possession is taken of a rich province by the Grand Duke’s officers, who were appropriately welcomed in the grand city of Lille. The conquest of the northern province from the Kingdom of Montelimar, at great human cost, the unobstructed progress of the Grand Duke into the centre of Lille, to declare the annexation of Flanders-Hainaut to the Grand Duchy of Wantage, with a written proclamation extending the sovereignty of the Empire of Great Engellex by the Queen-Empress also, have become events unexampled in European modern history; and there is nothing in appearance to indicate apprehensions of a possible permanent hostility. There are certain claims likely to be made, or even suggested, but only ordinary diplomatic skill should be sufficient for the adjustment of such claims. There are revolutionaries, no doubt so, who are giving some trouble within thirty miles of the capital to the east, in connection with insurrectionary movements organised by criminals, that had made themselves dangerous to Engellexic forces in the province. They are described as being daring, and accustomed to a life of plunder, the Grand Duke, in appointing Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais Governor of Lille, suggested that dealing with them would not be problematic for the Second Army within the region. The revolutionaries are recognised as occupying several small outlying towns far east of Lille whose numbers, as well as others like anarchists, object to any system of enforced law and efficient constabulary forces, and are unlikely to settle down in the near future to the reality of the changed administration of the province.

The Duc de Fontaine-Harcourt has expressed an interest in Flanders-Hainaut, but it is emphatically denied that the Kingdom of Montelimar can argue a justified and reasonable claim to it; Flanders-Hainaut, according to some parliamentarians in Biden, has long been an expressed interest of the Grand Duchy and ideas of Montelimarien nationalism being encouraged in the province by the Duc is intolerable and incorrect. Whatever the Montelimarien demands may really amount to any intent on trying to argue the return of the province will not be entertained, by Montelimar or other quarters, or be allowed to obstruct peaceful initiatives. The annexation having taken place it is declared to have been accepted universally and by all classes of the Empire. The European community and press, no doubt, will express the highest gratification of it, and there is reason to believe the administrations of Mormant, Lille and Fontaine-Harcourt will lead in such tributes. Such is the purport of Dulwich and Biden dispatches, so to ensure the lack of delay in supressing the revolutionary criminality, settling the details of government, and commencing a new era of commercial activity and regional prosperity. A Protectorate would been more agreeable to Engellexic feeling, for the successor states of Montelimar will be dependent on the goodwill and wisdom of Parliament and Crown to govern confidently, and it would not have involved us in quite as many liabilities as have now been undertaken by annexation. Colonel Claxton, in advising the Cabinet, observed to a parliamentary committee, that the Queen-Empress’ hand had somewhat been forced by the fact that her uncle the Grand Duke had already decided on it and established the appropriate executive and parliamentary instruments for the annexation by Biden; and since the Parliament of Wantage passed legislation a Minister of the Grand Duke had resided within central Lille, long before the proclamation, for the purpose of extending the interests of the Grand Duchy.

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A few months before, when the Engellexic Army were engaged in operations against Valmy, there was an occasion to point out how active Grand Ducal ministers were in the imperial metropolis in promoting the great design for territorial extension to parliamentarians and other agents of the Dulwich Establishment. It is surprising, therefore, that statesmen of Grafton and Westmooreland of all shades of political opinion expressed no remarks of hostility to the course the Wantage Government have felt confident to take in Flanders-Hainaut. A Treasury Minister for the Grand Duke in Biden answered to parliament that the annexation of the province imposes no great extra expense on the ordinary budget of the Grand Duchy; moreover, the expansion of the rule of Great Engellex in Preuti-Borussia, so far from paralysing its influence in the region, constitutes the strength of its diplomacy in Europe. EUROPALAND​ On Jan. 23 the Queen-Empress Charlotte, with the full endorsement of the Council of State, issued a Royal & Imperial Decree that froze assets of several senior persons of the Europalandian regime including the Foreign Minister Saida Nasri and Defence Minister Arne Isaksen. The Queen-Empress, and her Cabinet, had remained silent with respect to the serious, and destructive, conduct of the Europalandian regime, however, it would be seen that the imperial metropolis is putting reasonable and justified action before words. A particular number of notable Peers in the Lords commended the dignity of the Sovereign and her Cabinet in not being drawn into a severe diplomatic tirade from Europaland by responding to Nasri’s statement. The City of Hammersmith Corporation, with endorsement from the Walssex-Battent Government, issued an order to the Port Authority and Customs of Hammersmith, prohibiting the export of all manufactures, resources, and produce from 24 January 15:00 to 25 January 15:00 across all ships in Hammersmith bound for Europaland, in response to the deplorable and outrageous behaviour of the regime in Europa City. A spokesman for the Board of the Corporation confirmed that the measure was more symbolic of the protest the City of Hammersmith desires to make against a regime that directly sponsors terrorism throughout Europe, and endorsed the brutal murder of the Danziger ambassador to Europa City. The President for the Board of Public Trade has not issued a statement addressing this measure, though, is expected to in parliament next week.

SUTHERLAND-HUMBERSIDE LABOUR UNREST​ Speaking at Weybourne, in Went, last night on the unrest of the working classes, Sir Jeffrey Thomas, Member of Parliament for Humberside West, said that he believed that never had that feeling been so strong as now. That being so, it was better to face the facts than attempt to hide them by an absurd censorship. The incident connected yesterday and to-day with the dismissal and charges against the Governor of Sutherland, Lord Grey, was in itself sufficient to cause grave misapprehension, and keeping back the news may cause great mistrust and all kinds of gross exaggerations. It the Cabinet hoped to be trusted they should trust the people, and that trust on the part of the Cabinet had been greatly lacking for many decades of consistent policy failings. When talking of the working class unrest it should be remembered that the people had been working at high pressure since August across many of the industries, and with the national frustration of rising food prices, men and women could not work eighty hours a week without becoming increasingly irritable. That feeling, as said, has been greatly intensified by the increased cost of basic foodstuffs, such as bread, though they aren’t scarce quited the opposite, prices have risen dramatically since the Solaren War; the cost of energy has increase substantially too, particularly coal, due to the combined efforts of a severe winter and the war. A voice for the infuriated masses, an illegal union representative, described how the men and women were prepared to work those long hours to make ends meet but are now finding the need to sacrifice purchasing coal if only to eat. The Governor-General of the City Health Board confirmed that it had been deduced by the health authorities that the lack of affordable energy had been a cause of a rise in deaths this winter – which stands at one hundred ninety three. The Home Secretary announced that a bill will be put before parliament increasing taxes by £3 billion to finance subsidising basic food and energy prices for the working classes for a year.

 

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Since our ministers have more sense than to deposit their money in Engellexic banks we will not suffer in the slightest as a result of this measure. Any imports from Engellex are also completely minimal and can easily be replaced with goods from countries less hostile to our democratic values. That said I cannot hesitate to condemn this desperate and last-ditch attempt by one of Europe's most brutal, tyrannical regimes to hold its country back from the inevitable path towards a society characterised by freedom, liberty and democracy. That the Engellexic regime denounces all those movements fighting for the cause of human rights and democracy as "terrorists" is symptomatic of just how out of touch it is with reality. I am also highly curious at the claims that we endorsed the "brutal murder" of the Danzig Ambassador. If the idiots who run Engellex had made the slightest attempts to follow what actually happened they would be perfectly aware that we did all in our power to rescue the ambassador and that he is now on course for a full recovery thanks to the efforts of our top surgeons.

Saida Nasri
Foreign Minister of Europaland

 

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DULWICH, TUESDAY, 24th JANUARY 2012

The Right Honourable The Secretary of State has received the Command of her Imperial and Royal Engellexic Majesty The Queen-Empress
to make known the following gracious Statement of her Imperial and Royal Engellexic Majesty
to the Princes, and Chiefs of the State of Europaland.​

An Extension of The Queen-Empress' Statement in Council.

TO THE PRINCES, AND CHIEFS OF THE STATE OF EUROPALAND​

I am instructed to EXPRESS on behalf of her Imperial and Royal Engellexic Majesty;

Her Majesty the Queen-Empress Charlotte, and Cabinet, has acknowledged the complaints of the Europalandian Government, expressed they were with the highest standard of civility, upon registering the protestations of the Queen-Empress that were demonstrated by a Royal & Imperial Decree.

It is with great regret that the concerns of Great Engellex have not truly been understood by the Europalandian Government, and it is such lack of understanding that has, certainly so, permitted the rapid decline of national prestige for Europaland and trust for its government around Europe.

It is sincerely desired that courage can be found to rectify the most evident problems soon, if only to arrest Europaland’s decline, with the added process of restoring the freedom of public opposition and criticism of the government in Europa City by the people. It is believed the absence of accountable public figures have allowed a situation of the most strange individuals to try and assert Europaland’s interests internationally, a cause of such wide international criticism of its government.

By the Grace of GOD, of the EMPIRE of GREAT ENGELLEX, CHARLOTTE, the QUEEN-EMPRESS, through the SECRETARY of STATE, Sir ANTHONY PELHAM-HOLLES​

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I suggest that the so-called 'Queen-Empress' and all the members of her cabinet undergo an immediate psychiatric evaluation since their statements seem so twisted and out of touch with reality that they couldn't possibly be spoken by anyone who is truly sane. To accuse our nation, arguably the freest and most democratic anywhere in Europe, of being somehow lacking in "freedom of public opposition and criticism of the government" is utterly ludicrous, especially coming from a state which won't even give the vote to the vast majority of its citizens. That our nation's actions in championing the cause of freedom and democracy shall draw criticism from regimes such as that in control of Engellex is only natural and does not concern us in the slightest. What matters to Europaland is that the poor and oppressed across Europe can see that we are on their side and have a nation to look to as they wage their everyday struggles to take back power from those who murder, oppress and rob them of the fruits of their labour.

Saida Nasri,
Foreign Minister of Europaland

 

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ENGELLEXIC BROADCASTING COMMISSION

WEDNESDAY • MARCH 21 • 2012​

NORTHERN SECRETARY RESIGNS​

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

The orders of the day having been postponed, on the motion of the Sir Anthony Pelham-Holles, the debate on the motion for a Commons Committee relating to the conduct and legality of the Suffrage Cause in Great Engellex. Sir ANTHONY PELHAM-HOLLES roses from the front bench and said – Mister Speaker, in interposing at this stage of to-days business I have to place myself upon the indulgence of the Commons. I have rise, Sir, less for the purpose of entering upon any detailed discussion of the necessary and noble motion which was made by my right honourable friend the member for the city of Bermondsey, as to make an explanation to the Commons of the causes which has allowed me to make my resignation to-day at Battent Palace. I believe, Mister Speaker, that it is the invariable practice of her Majesty’s Ministers retiring from Officer to seek the earliest opportunity of explaining their position to Parliament; and if in my case this explanation has been necessarily swift, that is owing to the circumstances which this Parliament and country will certainly appreciate. I have the permission of her Majesty to state publicly the circumstances and the reason which have led to the course I have taken; if in doing this I have to digress a little from the strict course of debate I hope the Assembly will be willing to appreciate the peculiar position in which I stand. I tendered my resignation on Monday last, and it was accepted this morning. In the interval, and while I refused to confirm or deny, rumour has been busy with regard to my intent and motive, and rumour has not been very truthful, and quite certainly not very kind. I find that some persons, whose frame of mind it is very difficult for me to appreciate, and who seem to take a pleasure in imputing the basest motives for the public actions of men from whom they happen to differ, have suggested that I joined her Majesty’s Government with a preconceived determination to, and I quote from the Hammersmith Guardian, undermine and sabotage it when necessary. That statement is utterly untrue, it is ridiculous. No act of my political life has been so painful as the resignation which I have recently tendered to her Majesty the Queen-Empress. I am told, and besieged with, the reality that the step taken is one which has brought ruin for my political prospects and that I have destroyed all hope of future employ. Well, Mister Speaker, that is a prospect which it is possible for me to contemplate with equanimity. I find it more difficult to reconcile myself to a separation from her Majesty, whom I have followed and honoured for so many years and to leave the personal friends with whom I believe I have no other cause for difference whatever. I have found it hard to give up the opportunity which I think was within my grasp for doing something to forward legislation in which I took an overwhelming interest. Those considerations weighed with me, and I assure the Commons I have found it more difficult a task to leave than enter a government. There is only one other remark that I need to make by way of preface. I admit, Sir, that if any difference of opinion has arisen between myself and her Majesty, with the unrivalled experience, and vast knowledge of public affairs, and long tried devotion to the public service of her Majesty, the natural result is that her Majesty is right and I must be wrong. (Order. Anti-Suffrage cheers.) In the present instance the issue before us is one of such vital importance, and the mistake, if we make one, is so vital and so irrevocable that it seems to me to be the duty of every man, however humble, to bring an independent judgement to its consideration; and everything – private feeling, personal friendship, political ambition, and the cherished objects of public life – all there must be put aside in view of considerations which are still higher and still more importance. Sir, since I have been in public affairs I have called myself, not without reason, a Traditionalist but that title has never prevented me from giving great consideration to Imperial interests. I have cared for the honour, the influence, and the integrity of the Empire and it is because I believe these things are now endangered that I have felt called upon to make the greatest sacrifice that any public man can be expected to make. (Cheers and ridicule.) The division in the Imperial Parliament shows the most extraordinary confusion of parties on the matter of Extending Political Franchise. Battent Palace confirmed that her Majesty the Queen-Empress will address the House of Lords on the issue of Government changes.

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DULWICH EVENING DISPATCH

FRIDAY • MARCH 24 • 2012​

NEW IMPERIAL COALITION MINISTRY​

QUEEN-EMPRESS TO SWEAR IN NEW CABINET OF THE EMPIRE

The meeting of the Cabinet Ministers with the Queen-Empress lasted little more than an hour on Monday, and, at the conclusion of it, Sir Anthony Pelham-Holles proceeded to place his resignation before her Majesty – an act tantamount to the resignation of the Cabinet with such a senior office. The tone of the Suffrage meeting, held on Monday evening, at Lord Foster’s Dulwich residence, had been extremely moderate. The first effect of the dissolution of the Cabinet was to induce the Queen-Empress, by the advice of the Council of State, to send for leaders of the Pitt and Whig Parties, Lord Onslow and the Duke of Nonsuch, with the view to the formation of a new Cabinet. Lord Onslow proceeded to obey the her Majesty’s command, in conjuncture with the Duke of Nonsuch; but before many hours elapsed on Monday evening, the advocates of franchise extension were understood to have held independent meetings with senior party officials and members to discuss the situation. At an early hour on Tuesday morning the Duke of Rothermere, the Duke of Nonsuch and Lord Onslow were summoned to attend her Majesty, and it was generally believed that these statesmen would take a part in the formation of the new Cabinet. It was, however, desired that the communications at this stage of the negotiations, even though advanced, should be made in the presence of Lord Grey, the Crown Prince of Walssex-Battent, and Lord Rochester, as senior members of both parties; and, in the course of Tuesday afternoon, a protracted interview between these eminent persons at the Queen-Empress took place at her residence of Battent Palace. The persons were again summoned to the palace on the evening. It should be noted that the publications of evening newspapers, such as the Dulwich Evening Dispatch, may have induced private opinion and negotiation during the process as it was expressed nationally that the Empire had no personal or party interest that it was willing to observe; but collectively it was expressed that no more than the universal conviction of those who are most anxious for the peace, the welfare, and the security of the nation, when we consider an arrangement which should place in conjunction with a portion of the late Cabinet and with the Whig Party those eminent men who most nearly represent the opinions of the people, affords the only reasonable prospect of a strong, efficient, and progressive Cabinet. A mere attempt to bring back to office the Cabinet which has just fallen to pieces under the weight of divided opinion would stamp the whole of this singular transaction with the character of a despicable intrigue. The Empire requires an improved Imperial Ministry. The Empire has asked for men capable of giving effect to the principles which her Majesty the Queen-Empress has professed. The late Ministry had too much of the spirit, and narrowness of a coterie to conduct the Crown Subjects of Empire in their progress. Within a few hours of the delivery of Sir Anthony Pelham-Holles’ statement to the Commons Assembly on Wednesday, another and a final interview took place between Lord Onslow, the Duke of Nonsuch, and the Duke of Rothermere. The result of this last deliberation was the loss of hope of any well-meant future attempt to reconstruct a divided Cabinet as before, with the settlements for a coalition administration. Thus terminated the expectation faintly expressed by the late Northern Secretary of recovering political position he had just resigned. Upon the announcement to her Majesty of the negotiation and compromise made, the Queen-Empress was pleased to desire Lord Onslow to formally undertake the formation of the Imperial Ministry; but this task was respectfully declined by that statesman, on the ground of the want of due consideration in need to be given to the leader of the Whig Party. A second summons was then addressed, by her Majesty’s command, to the Duke of Rothermere, who had the honour of an audience of the Queen-Empress in the course of Thursday. It was generally understood and agreed that the failure of the previous formation had been made from the necessity of urgent ministerial reform. As to the result, however, the Northern and Southern Departments were agreed to be merged to form the European and Imperial Ministry, similarly a position to be formed for the leader of opposition to signify a degree of equality with the leader of the Pitt Party in the Cabinet. These ministerial reforms would substantially change the workings of government and remove objections to the coalition. In the present state of embarrassing affairs we are prepared to give such an administration our sincere support, and we therefore should abstain from dwelling on the principal vice of this combination. Sir Anthony Pelham-Holles was in a peculiar and personal manner responsible for all that had occurred in the last week. His statements to the Commons Assembly gave intensity, political importance and credibility to the anti-suffrage agitation, and bred dissension between quarters of parliament and the extension of the franchise movement. What can be determined with great positivity is that the appointment of the Duke of Nonsuch to the new European and Imperial Ministry will see the difficult decline of influence around Europe reversed with haste :- Montelimar, Borussia, Europaland, and Implaria-Oceania. The Duke had also numerously expressed his desire to see a second conference on Montelimar take place swiftly on the foundation of the new relationship between Great Engellex and the new liberated states; he does not believe in the trials and excess of Christianborg at this moment. A Commons committee investigating the legality of the suffrage movement will be earnestly put down by the new coalition. It would appear that her Majesty may be permitted to form her own department for the investigation and implementation of political and constitutional reform in the Empire. More will certainly be ascertained for publication on Monday morning as the Queen-Empress swears in her new Imperial Ministry.

 

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VESPER, TUESDAY, 27th MARCH 2012
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THE Oceanic Realms congratulates the Engellexic Establishment on the completion of the Imperial Cabinet process, and formally declares its intent to work closely with the new and returning figures as they are sworn in. The Oceanic Realms endorses the will of the Queen-Empress, as it always has, and welcomes the Imperial Cabinet as the heir to the finest Engellexic traditions. We are encouraged to see the Empire actively improving itself, and monitoring the concerns of its subjects to best forge a proud and patriotic future for all.

Global and Oceanic security remains the primary concern of this administration, and we expect to engage in close discussion and potentially cooperation with defence interests of this new cabinet. And while we, more so than any other Empire, are caretakers of Imperial traditions - we believe that the future holds the greatest glories if our two historically married entities remain mutually committed to security and prosperity. ​

Forward Cantignia!
Harriet Fauconberg,
Chief Officer​

 

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DULWICH EVENING DISPATCH

THURSDAY • APRIL 06 • 2012​

PREUTI-BORUSSIAN CONFERENCES​

DUKE OF NONSUCH CONFIRMS DULWICH CONFERENCES

A Second Conference, it is no longer speculated, will be held in Dulwich and possibly somewhere in Former Montelimar; the situation of Dulwich having been approved by the Imperial Cabinet, the Ministers of Mormant, the Duc de Fontaine-Harcourt, and other representation. The Journal des Débats Politiques et Littéraires of the Grand Duchy of Wantage published an article ahead of national publications on the Second Conference that has been termed the Conferences of Preuti-Borussia, as they anticipate the use of Mormant, Bordeaux or Valmy, at some point, within the conference. The article confirms that in Christiansborg it is considered as provocative, obstructive and offensive the questions which flow from the situation of settlement in respect of successive states from the former Kingdom of Montelimar, and it is these questions that now will cause great assault to the progress of the Christiansborg Conference. The Cabinet in Dulwich has accepted certain conditions in regard to the situation on military occupation, war remuneration and Montelimar armament, on the understanding that, in its quality of economic and social wisdom. On the matters of successive states Great Engellex’ position is comprised of, it argues, the reserve of the right to produce in a Preuti-Borussian interest some special conditions to peace settlement in addition to military and financial affairs. The European & Imperial Secretary, the Duke of Nonsuch, confirmed this to the House of Lords on Friday when he stated that that right belongs to Great Engellex, as it does also belong to Potenza, Vistrasia and Danmark, which maintain interests in the affair quite seriously, while it cannot be claimed, and certainly not allowed so, by Wiese, Eiffelland, Anglyn, Franken, Lorraine, and Wendmark, which have no serious part in the affairs of Former Montelimar – pre and post-war. This is, at least, stated the Duke of Nonsuch, how the Cabinet of her Majesty understands the matter of the Former Montelimar’s status of statehood. The opposition have raised the questions on what would be the course of her Majesty’s Cabinet if say Wiese or Franken seek to gain an advantage over Engellex, as the earlier interpretation by the Duke of Nonsuch on succession rights was made official would surely be in a moment of neutralisation as soon as other continental powers argue contrary pretentions; no doubt Dulwich would in its turn not fail to seek to overreach the Germanic League. The Duke of Nonsuch stated to the Lords that there exists a general agreement amongst the Imperial-Continental Diplomatic Corps in which they assert that these questions will certainly arise from those represented at the Christiansborg Conference on the matter of the Montelimar Succession :- That the succession of the Grand Duchy of Frœschwiller-Wœrth be prevented, or its frontiers seriously rectified to accommodate Borussian fears; that the present King of Montelimar be invited to reign over post-war Montelimar or a state on succession from the former; and also that they may wish to compel the new states to agree and ratify economic and security agreements with the Germanic League. In Dulwich those areas are anticipated and, it would appear from Nonsuch’s statement, addressed. The admission of the new states into economic and security agreements with the Germanic League are evidently one of those instances confirmed absolutely to sovereign right of the state, though the Duke of Nonsuch briefed, a quick term that is clearly in need to be expanded on officially it being, the Engello-Preutien League which, once established, will be used with formal institutions to assure the protection of the commercial, security and maritime interests of its signatories. His Grace the Duke of Nonsuch refused on delivering answers that provide greater detail on the League, citing Ministerial Privilege, for the time being. The question on the existence of the Grand Duchy of Frœschwiller-Wœrth and the possibility of rectifying intended frontiers has not much interest within Dulwich; it has been claimed that here is where the Cabinet is willing to negotiate on, the War Secretary, however, indicated to being in favour of expanding such territory. There remains then the obligation to rebuild major Montelimarien cities, such as Valmy, which, while being a most irritating condition politically for Dulwich, is already acknowledged. As some national observers debate whether the Cabinet would accept such an obligation leading personages of the nationalist persuasion have already spoken out in the Commons Assembly demanding in the imperial interest the Cabinet should on its part demand that the European Defence Federation will impose upon itself, or that there be imposed upon it, obligations of a similar kind in regard to its position as a belligerent power within the Solaris War. It is therefore inferred popularly that no agreement will arise on these points raised without unanimous consent in the Christiansborg Conference and that the way to progress the proceedings is to address them independently at conferences in Dulwich, with the immediately concerned powers and governments. Lord Kesteven questioned his Grace the Duke of Nonsuch on the representation within the Dulwich Conferences, enquiring what parties additional to the Montelimarien representatives will be present; the Duke of Nonsuch responded that the Cabinet anticipates the insistence of the Danish and Potenzan Governments to have plenipotentiaries present to engage in proceedings at certain points. CANTIGNY​ The Engelleux-at-Arms, the Duke of Rothermere, sent for the members of the Press Corps at the War Ministry on Wednesday afternoon. He said he an announcement to make of such importance and interest to the Empire and Preuti-Borussia generally that he believed it appropriate to communicate it personally in a conference to the press. The announcement was that it was her Majesty’s intention to receive Alexandra of Cantigny and the Cannie Chancellor Veronica North at Battent Palace this week. The exact date was not described. His Grace the Duke of Rothermere refused to state whether the state visit was in due of the abnormal developments in the Implaric-Oceanic Territory between the Wightland islands and Cantigny.

 

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DULWICH EVENING DISPATCH

FRIDAY • APRIL 13 • 2012​

CONGRESS OF ENGELLO-MONTEL​

DAY FIXED FOR THE OPENING OF THE DULWICH CONFERENCES

The first sitting of the Congress of Engello-Montel will take place on Wednesday next, the 18th, at Nonsuch House of the European and Imperial Secretary. The Duke of Nonsuch will afterwards give grand ball and dinner to the various Montel Ministers Plenipotentiary, the Imperial Cabinet, the speakers of the House of Lords and Commons Assembly, the Imperial General Staff, the Diplomatic Corps of Dulwich, and most importantly the Imperial and Royal Household of the Queen-Empress Charlotte, of the King and Queen of Walssex-Battent, and the Grand Duke and Duchess of Wantage. Speculation persists that Alexandra of Cantigny and Chancellor will also be in attendance, but the Permanent Secretary to the Duchy of Nonsuch refused to confirm. Her Imperial and Royal Majesty the Queen-Empress will receive on Monday several of the plenipotentiaries to the conferences which will open at Dulwich on Wednesday. His Excellency the Comes Burdagalensis, Valery Giscard Pompidou, the Premier Minister of Mormant; his Highness the Duc de Fontaine-Harcourt, of Valmy and Fontaine-Harcourt ; his Grace the Duc d’Aubigny, of Wissemandie; his Excellency the Comte de Toulouse, of Valmy; his Excellency Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, for Frœschwiller-Wœrth; his Excellency François Christophe de Kellermann, Premier Minister on Montel Security, - will be introduced to the Queen-Empress by the Great Master of Ceremonies on Monday. The plenipotentiaries shall promenade and drive about Dulwich like ordinary mortals of the imperial metropolis, leaving cards on each other and at the drawing rooms of the political classes, they shall present their respects to the Duke of Nonsuch, who has published his invitations for them all to attend a grand concert at the Adelaide Palace Opera House. The Whig Minister is the first to introduce positive expectation into the society of peace conference delegates, which has appeared, at first sight, to be made up of discordant elements. The Duc d’Aubigny was attending the Duke of Nonsuch on Thursday, and it appears the Ancien Régime had manifest itself upon the meeting. It was reported that the Duke of Nonsuch proposed that Pompidou and Kellermann should be seated beside him at the conference table. The Duc d’Aubigny maintained that the two places in question should be reserved for himself and the Duc de Fontaine-Harcourt s a matter of propriety, and ultimately gained his end, which, perhaps, was not worth an expenditure of diplomatic powder. The Ministers of the Queen-Empress are less reserved than usual in their public intercourse with colleagues and friends. They talk of the weather, the new royal ballet company, the improvements in national infrastructure, Montel cuisine, and Kyivan opera dancers; they play bowls at the Greenwich Air College green, to which the plenipotentiaries have joined, and lastly, talk of the conferences, and speak confidently that peace will be found, like hope, at the bottom of their Pandora’s box, which is about to be opened. A Pandora’s Box indeed. Pompidou has assured journalists that no difference of opinion, even upon matters of detail, exist between the delegates of Mormant, Valmy and Fontaine-Harcourt on the points which are to be debated, but that they will act cordially together. The queer earnestness with which the Premier Minister of Mormant made his assurance engenders the suspicion in Engellexic journalist circles that this unity may possibly be torn a sunder by a possible and unfortunate suggestion or proposition at the conference table. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, leading the delegates for Frœschwiller-Wœrth, has spoken quite firmly. He has informed The Guardian newspaper that his delegation will not allow the question of indemnity to be mooted; that Great Engellex had encouraged the Solaris War by not directly intervening before it, and that Dulwich should expect to finance reconstruction efforts. Nor will his delegation consent to being ruled or part of the Crown of Montelimar or the European Defence Federation, who, Talleyrand- Périgord states, is largely responsible for not preventing the Engellexic invasion and destruction which he also claims may and may not have been justified or legal. The minister for Frœschwiller-Wœrth has sent forth several circulars to the other plenipotentiaries, in which those points are insisted upon. It adds, moreover, that the ministers of Frœschwiller-Wœrth will consent to no territorial changes beyond any minor alteration that would expand the present frontier lines.

 

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DULWICH EVENING DISPATCH

SUNDAY • APRIL 29 • 2012​

CONGRESS OF ENGELLO-MONTEL​

PROGRESS TO THE MONTEL SUCCESSION

Of course, as the Crown Subjects of the Empire may correctly guess, I am sure, the great news from the Dulwich Conferences is the admission of Frœschwiller-Wœrth as an independent entity from Montelimar at the table fully agreed and recognised by the Duc de Fontaine-Harcourt. Right or wrong, the public in general will regard this as a proof that peace is either positively concluded, or upon the eve of doing so. The great reason for this conviction is, that for the last week, those persons, who are thought to be the best informed, have repeatedly said that Frœschwiller-Wœrth is definitively excluded by the Duc de Fontaine-Harcourt; but the circumstance of which will be only addressed at the last, when little or nothing remains to be done on the future of Former Montelimar; when, in fact, the negotiations are sure of their result; - then, but not before, Frœschwiller-Wœrth will be made one of the independent parties to whatever treaty or treaties will be drawn up and signed in Dulwich, and perhaps Christiansborg. Now, as this report had got very much about in diplomatic parlours, and in the formal world, the acknowledgement of the independence of Frœschwiller-Wœrth to the conferences is naturally thought a sign of good understanding having been brought about; and several personages of mark and influence that the Chief Editor of the Dulwich Evening Dispatch had been able to discuss with yesterday afternoon, are inclined to believe, that, in a very few days, the capitals of Europe shall hear that the negotiations are brought to a favourable close in Dulwich. What remains to be seen is the influence this will have on the proceedings of the Christiansborg Conference, which has stagnated in to quietude. As it stands, for many people confuse the intentions of both Dulwich and Christiansborg, the conferences in the imperial metropolis differ from the Danish in that they are for the negotiation and establishment of post Engello-Montel War. ENGELLEX AND DANMARK​ The Marquis of Manchester called upon the Duke of Nonsuch to produce some explanation of the non-production of the discussions and agreements with the Danish Government concerning the two issues of dispute, the first relating to Danish co-operation and partnership with the Principality of Altai, and the other on statement released by the Altaist Government confirming its designs on Germanic League Membership. On the former subject the Lord Manchester quoted his Grace the Duke of Nonsuch as saying no arrangements and correspondence was completed between Dulwich and Christiansborg; but it was completed, was the argument, for the Danish Government confirmed agreements made through the Danish Press, and these details had been laid before the capitals of Europe by popular distribution. Lord Manchester then referred to the statement given to the affect that confirmed the intentions of the principality to entangle the Germanic League – as it tried with the Federation – into a membership agreement, and the Lord Manchester said he should like to know what Christiansborg and Augsburg made of that scheme. No correspondence had been published on the subject to the House of Lords or the Commons Assembly, but it was understood that it was simply due to lack of correspondence on the matter between the Duke of Nonsuch and his Danish counterpart, at least officially; but, Lord Manchester continued, the House of Lords is well informed that other transactions had occurred which prevented the Imperial Cabinet from moving further on the Altaist matter. There is speculation that the Kyivan interference is the unconfirmed transaction, though the Lord Manchester did not know whether this were so or not; but, he said, as we were misguided upon this subject by his Grace, it would be well if all correspondence were produced to the Imperial Parliament. If the situation of the Sindh Crisis were allowed to be discussed in parliament with the full upport of published correspondence, the Lord Manchester was sure some way would be found of settling the difficulty without need for greater abandonment of Altaist relations. At all events of the circumstance he was certain there was danger in this secret diplomacy, which had been going on since his Grace assumed the position of European and Imperial Secretary. There would be no danger of a collision with the Kingdom of Danmark and the Principality of Altai if the questions were left to the Imperial Parliament. The Lord Manchester affirmed, before retiring from the debate, that Cantigny should be formally recognised for its continued support for Engellexic influence in the region as demonstrated with the statement from Vesper with the declaration to the Engello-Talemantine position.

 

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DULWICH EVENING DISPATCH

MONDAY • MAY 1 • 2012​

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE​

ROYAL COMMISSION FOR PARLIAMENTARY AND ELECTORAL REFORM

The Duke of Nonsuch rose to call the attention of the Imperial Parliament to the expediency of issuing a Royal Commission to inquire into the operation and restriction of the present laws which regulate the electorate of Great Engellex. He said to the House that her Majesty the Queen-Empress made clear her desire to legislate electoral reform for many years and desired parliamentary leadership on the matter. The time to allow the Imperial Parliament to direct the inquiry had elapsed, and an inquiry should be properly instituted under her Majesty’s Authority. The present was the perfect time for such an inquiry, peace being about to be established. During the last winter, in consequence of a severe social calamity in that period, committees of both the House of Lords and Commons Assembly had been appointed to inquire into its causes. It was grudgingly admitted, though not publicly, that the country was in need of urgent electoral reform; but, unfortunately, the committees did not agree in their reports, which were adopted in each case by a very narrow majority. The disagreement escalated into the resignation of the Northern Secretary and the Pitt-Whig Coalition Cabinet. This circumstance I do consider indeed a particularly strong reason for having the subject taken up by a Royal Commission rather than by a committee of this House, or the other place, is Grace the Duke of Nonsuch stated. The diversity of constituency size and the fluctuation of electoral fraud under the present system was a great evil to our democracy. There are presently fourteen constituencies within Westmooreland, Grafton and Middlesex where there are less than two hundred people registered to that constituency; similarly there were eight investigations made on electoral fraud by her Majesty’s Constabulary at the last General Election and five were found to be quite serious acts of deception indeed. During the last General Election, too, the attendance to Women’s Suffrage and other franchise extension rallies were up by twenty-one percentage, from the General Election preceding that, at one hundred eighty thousand people as estimated by her Majesty’s Constabulary. These facts, his Grace argued, encouraged speculation of instability within the country, the consequence of which was that there was a severe strain against the confidence of investors which has yet to, though with strong possibility, transpire into a national social and economic crisis. If the Queen-Empress’ Peace is to be preserved and the confidence in Engellexic markets maintained the restrictions on the electorate must be reduced and the franchise enlarged, and this could be done by removing many of the criteria and loosening others to allow women and men of the lower classes the privilege to participate in our national democracy. He admitted that many quarters felt some dread and fear that such revolutionary reforms would cast down the standard in which Engellexic civilisation is held at and displace men from traditional employment by women, but his Grace argued this was not the case for State and Council elections, where suffrage is far more in line with more liberal societies such as Franken. He was also of the opinion that the present system might be changed with advantage as regarded the disproportion between constituencies, where the difference in population was quite staggering in some parts of the country and where the changes made by industrialisation found several notable industrial centres vastly unrepresented. He thought, too, that it was now necessary that parliamentary inspection and control over the size and source of political donations should be established, as was the case in many other countries. The Duke of Nonsuch concluded by moving for the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the subject. The motion was passed and will be taken before the Queen-Empress at Battent Palace on Friday 4 May evening. THE COVENANT OF CANTIGNIA​ The Deputy Chancellor Frederick Porchester has announced the passing of the Covenant Conglomeration Act by the Vesper Committee (8-4) on Monday. The Act will see changed the policy of Vesper toward the Implaric-Oceanic realms with the restructuring of the governments elected and maintained by the islands and island groups within the region now de facto under Cannie authority. Instructions have been sent by the European and Imperial Secretary, the Duke of Nonsuch, to Lord Ramstowe, Security and Trade Agent for the Imperial Cabinet within the Imperial Commission in Vesper, to confer with the Chancellor of Cantignia concerning the position of Engellexic trade and security interests within the Wightland islands. Great Engellex maintains a minimal land and air force within the Wightland islands. It is believed the constitutional position of the Queen-Empress’ Lord Commissioner of the Wightland islands will be ascertained by conversations between the highest levels of Dulwich and Vesper political power. THE SINDH AND NEAR EAST​ The conclusion of a new agreement between Kyiv, the Talemantine Empire and Altai, although affected to be treated with contempt by all parties of the Imperial Parliament, is known to have caused as much surprise as irritation to the Queen-Empress and Imperial Cabinet, who not only regards, and justly regards, it as a manifest proof of estrangement from and offence by the Dano-Kyivan partnership, and, further, as a pact that tends to neutralise half the maritime advantages which the Imperial Cabinet expected to derive in course of years, from the construction of a powerful merchant and naval depot in Zadar-Istria. The Queen-Empress’ surprise and perhaps annoyance was the greater, since the secret of the agreements was so well guarded at Talemaniki that the Engellexic envoy at that place remained ignorant of the fact, and even, so it is asserted, assured the Duke of Nonsuch, after the announcement by Stavka, that no formal agreement had been concluded between the three states. But the evil being more prospective than immediate in the Imperial Cabinet’s eyes, her Majesty and Ministers are more disposed, it has been claimed, to regard the conduct of the Sindh Quartet (Danmark; Kyiv; Talemantine Empire; Altai) as a motive for adherence to traditional partners in the Karlskrona Accord rather than for leaning towards the Near East.

 

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On the behalf of the Most Serene Republic of Liege; I wish to offer some sane statements as opposed to some others. It is my way of thinking, and my nation's that is a government wishes to enfranchise or disenfranchise its citizens, it is the right of that sovereign state. I wish for my fellow Englishmen to set the course they deem fit, and not entertain those that wish to change your laws. If some would wish to change your laws, as the law exists in some other nation, let them renounce their citizenship, become a citizen of your nation and vote for that change. Let us stand together and not worry whether or not those barefoot and pregnant wenches vote or not, personally I would say not, though that is just my opinion. I certainly will not hold anything against those that would say otherwise. With that, I must get back to the sandwich my wife made me.

Llewellen Hall
Minister of Foreign Affairs
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DULWICH EVENING DISPATCH

MONDAY • MAY 7 • 2012​

ARMISTICE​

ADVANCEMENTS AT THE DULWICH CONFERENCES

Crown Subjects and people of Europe will have learned by the published address of her Majesty the Queen-Empress from a banquet at Battent Palace on 3 May, the Dulwich Conferences agreed to the conclusion of an armistice, between Great Engellex and the Kingdom of Montelimar, until 6 August 2013; the same, however, not to extend the same formal consideration to other members of the European Defence Federation who are also officially at war with Great Engellex. The publication of the details of the arrangement was reserved for the Dulwich Evening Dispatch of this day’s date. The prolonged period of the armistice – it has more the character of a direct preliminary to peace than a temporary truce – and the non-inclusion of the other warring states of the Federation, plainly indicates the resolution of of the ministers at Dulwich to bring negotiations between Engellex and Montelimar to the speediest possible conclusion, and not to allow the suspension of hostilities to extend inclusive of the entire Federation, in case the other belligerents oppose the process of Engello-Montel peace. On the other hand, it stands to reason, if negotiations should take a favourable and undisturbed turn, and all doubts of a peaceful solution be set aside, that the necessary steps will be taken, in proper time, to extend the armistice to the whole alliance and convert it into a durable, or rather unlimited armistice. It must be remarked, however, that the agreement of the plenipotentiaries, at first starting, to a cessation of hostilies, although a symptom of accord on that point, is no positive indication of agreement upon others, although optimists here construe it in the most favourable light possible, and already endeavour to persuade themselves and others that a truce would not have been agreed to had not the ministers regarded the greatest obstacles as set aside. They refer to the first attempt in Augsburg, during which the question of an armistice, was mooted by Dulwich, and ignored by those of the Federation. But the situation is totally different; nor can cessation of hostilities procure the slightest advantage to the Montel Army in the East and South, or the slightest detriment of any kind to the Engellexic Army without new belligerents entering the war. On the evening 3 May the Montel plenipotentiaries, as well as those of Europe within Dulwich, with their Lords, Ladies and gentlemen of Parliament, had the honour of dining with her Imperial Majesty the Queen-Empress; and, in the course of the evening, all the plenipotentiaries and diplomatic corps, with their Ladies, delighted on the indulgence of her Majesty by a ball, being particularly resplendent and triumphant as is the regular affair, in the magnificent Battent Palace. During the course of the dinner, hosted by the Queen-Empress, announced to the diplomatic corps were the appointments of several European heads of state to honorary military ranks within the Great Engellexic Armed Forces, they included :- Field Marshal of the Engellexic Army to the Grand Duke of Potenza, the Emperor of Wiese, the Crown Prince of Danmark, and the Prince of Fryslan, for the Queen of Suionia and the Emperor of Talemantros the honorary rank of Admiral of the Fleet, and for Alice of Cantignia the special honorary rank of Marshal of the Royal Engellexic Air Force.

 

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OFFICE FOR HER HIGHNESS
THE QUEEN OF THE CRIMSON ISLANDS
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THE QUEEN OF THE OCEANIC REALMS
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THE DUCHESS OF HAMMERSMITH

His Excellency Maximus Grantley, Baron Grantley of Persephone, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary From the Royal Court at Foxwood Manor
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THIS TELEGRAM IS DELIVERED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE CROWN OF THE CRIMSON ISLANDS & OCEANIC REALMS
Baron Grantley of Persephone to the Right Honorable Secretary of State, his Grace the Duke of Nonsuch, Telegram No. 141, Dulwich

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MONDAY 7, MAY 2012
PEACE & HONOR

With the esteemed honor of commanding the Armies, Armada, and Aeroforces of Her Highness's Grand Force of the Covenant, loyal always to Her Imperial Majesty and Queen-Empress Charlotte, the Crimson Queen Alice I cordially recognizes the bestowing of the special honorary rank of Marshal of the Royal Engellexic Air Force with acceptance. It has been asked that we express, that truly, no higher honor exists in all of Europe but to serve for the glory of the Empire and the Realm.

As the True Peace is enforced with fair grace in Implaric-Oceania, the Crimson Queen was never doubtful of the prospect of Her most valued relative, the Queen-Empress, achieving this honorable peace with all foes vanquished or kneeling to pledge allegiance to the righteous Empress of Great Engellex. It thus cannot be said in this era that the Motherland, or her Colonial Daughters, eschewed their duties to civilization as marshals and administrators.

In order to best celebrate the deserved victories of the Empire, Her Highness the Crimson Queen has granted the wishes of Lord Morgan S. Griffith, of the Wightland Islands, who has commissioned the combined Aeroforces of the Covenant and the Empire to perform an air-display over Port Wandsworth. A festival and feast shall also be had so that the subjects of the Realm may best rejoice in this Most Engellexic Armistice, which transcends the continents and oceans of Europe with triumph.

Forward Cantignia!
Maximus Grantley
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Kongeriket Danmark


OFFICIEL ERKLÆRING

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Rt.Hon. His Grace The Duke of Nonsuch, Secretary of State of the Empire of Great Engellex
Dulwich


His Danic Majesty's Government welcomes the cessation of conflict in the Kingdom of Montelimar and the tangible advance of the progress of peace in the Realm. The armistice as a harbinger of peace and tentative reconciliation will be supported by His Danic Majesty's Government with the full force of conviction and cooperation henceforth.

The advent of a new dawn in relations between Great Engellex and Montelimar presages a commensurate official rapprochement between the Empire of Great Engellex and the Kingdom of the Great Danes which we will studiously and wholeheartedly pursue. As such, the Armistice will see a new era in Dano-Engellexian state relations.

His Danic Majesty King Hans Gustav III and HKH The Crown Prince Sweyn, alongside His Danic Majesty's Government take great heart from the developments together with the bestowal of the rank of Field Marhsall of the Great Engellexian Army upon HKH The Crown Prince.

The visit of HKH The Prince Lauritz and HKH The Princess Ingeborg to Great Engellex is an indication of the goodwill demonstrated by the Kingdom of the Great Danes to the Empire of Great Engellex and the indication of progress initiated by our government.

My government also wishes to formally invite HM The Queen-Empress to the Coronation of HKH The Crown Prince to be undertaken in the capital of the Kingdom, Christiansborg.


Hr. Jens Peder Hillerød

His Majesty's Statsminister of the Kingdom of the Great Danes

 

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DULWICH EVENING DISPATCH

MONDAY • MAY 14 • 2012​

PREUTI-BORUSSIAN CONFERENCES​

PRELIMINARIES OF MONTEL SUCCESSION ACCEPTED

A statement made by an unnamed source close to the Duc de Fontaine-Harcourt, that the preliminaries of Post Engello-Montel Settlement had been accepted by the plenipotentiaries at Dulwich, has been confirmed by the Duke of Nonsuch, in answer to a question by the Marquis of Beckingham, in the House of Lords :- I state there were indeed rumours somewhat authoritative, announcing that an event of the greatest importance with respect to conferences in the capital, in relation to the Engello-Montel Settlement and Succession, had occurred, that the instruments of succession for the ceding states, and that the foundations of the Engello-Preutien League had been found acceptable by the representatives. I look upon he Succession of State as an event auspicious of the satisfactory settlement of the questions that the conferences here are deliberating upon – and indeed, forget we cannot, Christiansborg – as an event also auspicious of Preuti-Borussian Peace, and one upon which her Majesty the Queen-Empress ought to be congratulated, because, whatever the hysterical opinions sometimes expressed in foreign capitals – expressed often without thought, and sometimes without temper – I cannot but feel that the settlement of the questions at issue is more likely to be satisfactory and permanent if, as is now taking place, the immediate parties of interest exclusively take part in and sanction it – than if all the powers of the continent are so inclusive as to cause disruption and distraction of core questions, as was witnessed within Christiansborg. The settlement of succession and post-war Engello-Montel relations in Dulwich is the only means, as it appears to me, by which wider and greater questions of peace in Europe can be fully addressed with hope of resolve in the Danish capital. The Duke of Nonsuch responded by saying that substantive conditions of Engello-Montel Settlement and Succession were proposed some time ago by Dulwich and Mormant on the articles which were to serve as the foundations for post-war peace and co-operation between the five capitals. These articles were at first accepted by Dulwich, Mormant and Fontaine-Harcourt, and by Valmy with reservations, but it afterwards not being agreed to by Strausberg, they were eventually accepted unconditionally on 12 May. These artciles were afterwards recorded into protocols at Nonsuch House, and signed by the plenipotentiaries. For when the conferences met again in Christiansborg it was agreed with the Engellexic plenipotentiary there that these articles should be inserted in the proceedings Christiansborg and those artciles, accepted between Engellex and the Succession States should have the force and value of a preliminary treaty of peace, without going through the arduous process of deliberating excessively with the obstructive Courts of Borussia. The Marquis of Beckingham then asked what instruments of succession had been formed, and Nonsuch confirmed that the instrument for the succession of the Duc de Fontaine-Harcourt to the Montel throne had been produced – as were, also, those of Wissemandie and Fontaine-Harcourt. In conferences like those now being held in Dulwich, it is usual, as soon as the several parties sufficiently understand one another to see their way, to sign a preliminary treaty of peace. In the present instance, the protocol agreed at Nonsuch House, containing Seven Articles proposed has been accepted by all the parties, and it is the formal execution of the protocol that has now gripped the political classes of Dulwich. Of course, there is great latitude for disagreement when the details which this agreement embodies come to be discussed in Christiansborg, and it is quite possible that the plenipotentiary for Strausberg may yet take exception to some of the demands made by the others at the Dulwich Conferences, either in matter or in form. Still the signing of the documents – the instruments – will be an instalment towards the desired end :- peace. The Seven Articles are :- Succession of the Kingdom of Montelimar Succession and Independence of the Kingdom of Wissemandie Succession and Independence of the Principality of Fontaine-Harcourt Succession and Independence of the Principality of Frœschwiller-Wœrth The Engello-Montel Mandate for Radilo The Engellexic Mandate for Montel Agriculture and Fisheries The Engello-Preutien League​ What difficulties may yet arise by the terms and changes, as they enter European diplomatic circles, it is impossible to foresee. Already it has been acknowledged that the most difficult points would be first proceeded with; and these, it is well known in Dulwich, are embodied in the neutralisation of the Montel-Wendmarker border, by way of the succession of Frœschwiller-Wœrth, and the supplementary conditions which, according to the Christiansborg protocols, the Germanic League claims the right to make. Slow as the progress of such negotiations is, it is impossible that the leading features of the Fourth Article should not have by this time, considering the announcements, been brought under notice, and we may, therefore, shortly expect to hear that definite progress has been made in all of the particulars. Those ministers of the Germanic League should not be surprised if there prove to quite substantive difficulty in preventing the independence of Frœschwiller-Wœrth without the supplementary conditions, they desire, attached to it. The boundaries of the province will probably be settled by a commission, if not done so already. But, reverting back to the acceptance of the articles, it is perhaps necessary, for European observers, to intimate that this act is but the formal consequence of the Montel acceptance of the peace propositions of Dulwich. The propositions have been, by the signatures of the plenipotentiaries, converted into preliminaries of peace.

 

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DULWICH EVENING DISPATCH

WEDNESDAY • MAY 16 • 2012​

PREUTI-BORUSSIAN CONFERENCES​

ENGELLEXIC MANDATE FOR MONTEL AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES SIGNED

The Press Corps of the Dulwich Conferences at Nonsuch House has received a copy of the Engellexic Mandate for Montel Agriculture and Fisheries, which was formerly signed into force on Monday. It was proposed by the Imperial Government through, his Grace, the Duke of Nonsuch and fully supported by the plenipotentiary for Fontaine-Harcourt. Article 35, which establishes the mandate to administer the agricultural and fisheries industries of former Montelimar, was signed separately and ahead of the treaty that is being worked towards for Post-War Engello-Montel Relations; it is a lengthy article and many of the Press Corps have termed it the Lesser Treaty of Dulwich. The following is the text of the most important element. The Imperial Government of her Royal and Imperial Majesty the Queen-Empress of Great Engellex shall from the date 15 May 2012 appoint a Commons Commissioner of the Commons Committee on Montel Agriculture and Fisheries, and such deputies or deputy to act under him in any part or parts of the Kingdom of Montelimar, the Kingdom of Wissemandie, the Principality of Fontaine-Harcourt, or the Principality of Frœschwiller-Wœrth as to the Commons Commissioner seem necessary for the execution of the Engellexic mandate. Such Commons Commissioner and deputies shall hold office as persons serving in an established capability in the permanent civil service of the State, and shall be subject generally to the directions of the Sovereign and their Imperial Cabinet, and shall be paid out of money provided by the Imperial Parliament such salaries as the Imperial Cabinet from time to time assigns. Upon receiving the document the Duke of Nonsuch addressed the gathered press at his formal Dulwich residence, Nonsuch House. I have great satisfaction in informing you all that the negotiations conducted by her Majesty’s Imperial Government since the opening of the Conferences with the Montel plenipotentiaries, through myself, has resulted in the signatures to an article which her Majesty’s Government trusts will place the commercial and industrial position of Great Engellex on a vastly greater footing of improvement in Europe. The main provisions of the indstrument are as follows :- the Succession of Montel States shall be legally bound to grant her Majesty’s Government authority to make policy and legislate on produce and manufactures of the agricultural and fishery sectors, and, by formal extension, the conditions which affect their European markets. The Engellexic Mandate grants specifically to the agricultural trade of Great Engellex the benefits of new markets and less competition The first instance of legislation by the Imperial Parliament will be to legislate on tariff provisions that presently exist between Engellex and Montelimar, it will be of mutual benefit to our industries and national companies. The text of the article is being distributed to you all now. The sanction of the elected assemblies of the successor states, as well as our own Parliament, is required in order to bring the article into effect; but it should be understood that her Majesty’s Government expects no difficulty to be encountered in obtaining the assent which is so manifestly to the benefit of all States, and which will doubtless strengthen the cordial relations which will soon happily exist between the Crowns of Engellexic and the Montel State. The Guardian representation at the Nonsuch House Press Corps inquired whether the true motivations of her Majesty’s Government were to substantially strengthen the political clout of the Engellexic bargaining position in Europe with an increased influence over the agricultural markets, and if, indeed it is true, it is in response to oil producing states exploiting their European market position for political gain. The Duke of Nonsuch understood the nature of the Guardian to investigate on behalf of the public interest, though, assured the Press Corps that her Majesty’s Government was concerned wholly with economic matters, in this regard. The Guardian newspaper published figures to-day that confirmed a favourable position for Great Engellex in European markets, including the value of agricultural output subject to the authority of the Imperial Parliament and Treasury rising from Eighty Billion Breotish Pound Sterling to One Hundred Thirty Billion; Engellex rises in European rankings of production to top positions in many agricultural sectors, with the inclusion of wheat productions and export, barley and a host of vegetables. European market share of wool, lamb, veal, and beef production and export has also increased significantly. THE MASSACRES IN LIEGE​ The former Northern Secretary, Sir Anthony Pelham-Holles, sitting within the Commons Assembly, strongly endorsed the opinion of a leading nationalist Commons Member that Great Engellex should avenge the massacre of the Engellexic people, that took place in the capital of Liege, by seizing the city of Verdan. If, Pelham-Holles says, her Majesty’s Government leaves this massacre of our cousins unpunished, our position within Montelimar and Preuti-Borussia will be seriously compromised, as we are new to the stage of Great Powers, and have never developed close enough association with the Republic of Liege for that state to guarantee respect toward us by their society. The republic is a small coastal country in Preuti, and a large proportion of our emigrants might be directed there. As stated, its area is quite small in comparison to Montelimar, and it lies just south of Wissemandie, and quite within the reach of the Royal Engellexic Air Force and the Engellexic Army – already in Montelimar. To the objection, from a member of the Pitt Party, that Talemantros might put difficulties in the way, Sir Anthony Pelham-Holles replies, that the Talemantines abandoned the close association with Engellex by supporting the persecution of Liege’s Engellexic population, and this was one of the greatest mistakes committed by their government. They must not, and certainly cannot, prevent our marching on Liege, if her Majesty’s Government so chooses. All we have to do is pause any further development of the Preuti-Talemantine pipeline and increase tariffs on agricultural exports destined for her shores. She cannot oppose, quite, the Talemantines were unable to bring the peasantry of Altai to their knees. Indeed the government of Talemantros ought to assist her Majesty’s Government in its endeavour to address the deplorable state of affairs in Liege, after all, was it not her Majesty’s Government that stood in support of the Talemantine cause in Zamosca when none other government would? The former Northern Secretary sat down to large cheers from the Commons Assembly.