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The article discusses several socio-political issues. Recent events are likely to bring international law back to its beginnings in the dispute over Mare clausum and Mare liberum. Characteristically, the Russians may be cited on both sides of the controversy. They sowed floating and even set fixed mines many leagues from Port Arthur, China, treating the two broad gulfs as territorial waters of their leasehold on the Liaotung Peninsula, China. A growing socialistic tendency among the American masses is one of the things on which novelist H. Rider Haggard commented last week before he sailed for England. His observation merely confirms the opinion expressed by other, and perhaps better informed, students of political and social conditions in the United States.