The Annual Register, Volumen146Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1905 Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year. |
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... railway construction in China , and that our trade interests were neglected in Manchuria and Persia , as well as in Madagascar and other French possessions . Lord Percy ( South Kensington ) , Under - Foreign Secretary , replied that our ...
... railway construction in China , and that our trade interests were neglected in Manchuria and Persia , as well as in Madagascar and other French possessions . Lord Percy ( South Kensington ) , Under - Foreign Secretary , replied that our ...
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... railway rates , had been removed ; the latter urged that the Chinese labourers should have the nature of the restrictions under which they would work fully explained to them before they left their country , and reminded the House that ...
... railway rates , had been removed ; the latter urged that the Chinese labourers should have the nature of the restrictions under which they would work fully explained to them before they left their country , and reminded the House that ...
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... railway rates and taxation , and that the proposed regulations would be wicked , were they not to a certain extent ridiculous ; and Sir Frank Swettenham , the highest living authority on Chinese labourers , vigorously defended their ...
... railway rates and taxation , and that the proposed regulations would be wicked , were they not to a certain extent ridiculous ; and Sir Frank Swettenham , the highest living authority on Chinese labourers , vigorously defended their ...
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... railway facilities free , and , he believed , free freights for some time by the Elder - Dempster Line . Its profits for the next five years would be spent on promoting the industry . While the Budget satisfied the public on the whole ...
... railway facilities free , and , he believed , free freights for some time by the Elder - Dempster Line . Its profits for the next five years would be spent on promoting the industry . While the Budget satisfied the public on the whole ...
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... railway construction , but said that the delay was explained by them as due to the state of the money market . As to recent disturbances in Armenia , the reports received were various , but pointed to the view that they had been begun ...
... railway construction , but said that the delay was explained by them as due to the state of the money market . As to recent disturbances in Armenia , the reports received were various , but pointed to the view that they had been begun ...
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amendment announced appointed Army Asquith Balfour Bishop British Cabinet Chamber Chamberlain Chinese labour Church Colonial Commission Committee conference Council debate declared defence discussion Duke duty Education effect election Empire England Estimates Exchequer expenditure favour fiscal question fiscal reform Fleet foreign Free Trade German Government held Home Rule House of Lords Imperial important increase India interest Ireland Irish Japanese King land licences London Lord George Hamilton Lord Lansdowne Lord Milner Lord Rosebery Lord Salisbury Lyttelton majority ment military motion National naval Navy Office Opposition organisation Parliament party passed political Port present President Prime Minister proposed Protection railway reduction referred regard reply resignation resolution retaliation revenue Royal Russian scheme schools Secretary session ships Sir Charles Dilke Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman Sir Henry Fowler South Africa speech tariff reform Tariff Reform League taxation tion Transvaal treaty vote War Office
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