St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-13
IT LOOKS like WAR,
Salisbury and His Colleagues
Grow Uneasy Over the
Situation,
And Are Hastily Preparing the
Army and Navy for Any
Emergency.
Bismarek's Policy to Make
Everything English De-
cidedly Unpopular.
Emperor Frederick Said to Be
Slowly But Surely Dying
Other News.
Copyright Cable to the Globe.

| LONDON, May 12.-LOrd Salisbury
and his colleagues have at length grown
| uneasy at the constant attack of Ger
man newspapers, the growing antipathy
of the German people against England
and the demonstration of Russia towards
Central Asia, and are now hastily pre-
pairing the British army and navy for
any contingencies that may arise. There
is hardly any doubt that the majority of
the German press, especially those
newspapers which take their cue from
Prince Bismarck, are being deliberately
employed to make the name of England
hated throughout the empire, and the
upShOt of the whole business is that
England and everything English are to
the last degree unpopular, especially i'll
Prussian ministerial circles. There are,
of course, many PruSsians, and even Il
few Prussian newspapers, of different
way of thinking. But with the fol-
lowers of Prince Bismarck national
| hatredS and jealOuSieS of this kind are
not merely defended, but warmly
adopted as the true sign of patriotism,
and nearly forty-One years ago Prince
| Bismarck made his first important
speech in the Prussian parliament. a
member, abiding to the German upriS-
| ing of 1913, refused to admit the idea
| that the enthusiasm of those times was
merely due to
| HATRED OF THE FRENCH.
! and added, "a noble and civilized peO-
\ pie like the PruSSian knows no national
hatreds." After he sat down Prince
| Bismarck, who was then only Capt
Otto Won BiSmarck-SchOenha got
up and said that in his opinion all other
feelings were then ''silenced by the
hatred against the foreigners" The
words were then received with protest
and dissent: nowadays it appears that
that would be taken as a matter of
course in Germany. 1t is strange
game that Prince Bismarck has of late
been playing. The German press in
general is mere organ whose stops he
can pull out or push i'll at pleasure, and
If terrible noise has been made about
the Battenberg match and the name of
England has been constantly dragged
into the dispute. it is because he Will sit
so. The Battenberg affair having in a
great measure died out, the attacks are
now directed against the supposed Eng
liSh influences at the German imperial
court, and against the useless ''English
cannulas," to which Emperor Frede-
rick'S frequent relapses are attributed.
English statesmen are beginning to be-
lieve that these newspaper emanatiOns
are the inception of some
SCHEME OF PRINCE BISMARCK
to the detriment of England and the ag-
grandiZement of Russia, which will Gull
inmate on the death of Emperor Fred
erick. The latter event cannot be very
far off, as those in London say, who are
likely to be best acquainted. Direct in
formation from Sir Morrell Mackenzie
as to the progress of the emperOr'S dis
ease now admits that Frederick is dy-
ing. This fact has been known to the
British cabinet for some time, and I'M
doubtedly has acted as powerful in
centiye in Fastening England's war
preparations. of which Secretary of
War StanhOpe gave an outline WedneS-
day. Many of England'S best soldiers
and sailors, among them Lord Wolsely
and Lord Charles BereSfOrd, however,
claim that the steps being taken to
place England in proper state of de-
Tense are entirely inadequate. They
say that so long as the army and navy
are governed by civilians nothing else
could be expected. In plain English,
this means that Mr.. StanhOpe and Lord
George Hamilton are acting against the
judgment of Lord Wolsely and Lord
Charles Beresford: that the public are
being hoodwinked into suppOsing that
these fighting officers approve of what
is being done, and that the whole ar
rangement aims at securing, not the
SAFETY OF THE COUNTRY,
but the reputation of Mr.. GOSchen as a
financier A number of Tories are al
ready asking whether it would not be
worth while sacrificing one or two sec
retaries of state, and even so promising
a Jonah as Mr.. GOschen, if by so doing
the country could be made safe against
the invasion which the war Office eX-
pertS have for some months been stat
ing Is at present a practicable under
taking. A good many observers are
asking themselves whether Bismarck's
excessive tenderness towards Russia
is calculated either to conciliate that
power or to strengthen the general
policy to which Bismarck is committed.
Whatever he may door say he will al
ways be hated and diStruSted in Russia.
Russia knows that he made the AuStrO-
German alliance against the wishes of
the late emperor, and that the alliance
was directed against her. Prince Bis
marck will never win Russia except
by sacrificing that policy, and by that
means sacrificing AStria. 1t is no Won
wonders whether Prince Bismarck
means to throw her to the wolves, as
he declared himself ready to do with
Bulgaria. Dispatches from Vienna
this evening report that the situation in
the East is anything but reasSurring.
All trace of optimism, which has so
long characterized official opinion, has
disappeared, and all is
GLOOMY AND DESToNDENT
in government circles. The position of
the Bulgarian government has become
ol<,. oI<ITN 30
in different parts of the Balkan states
and, as was to be expected, there are
signs of renewed trouble in Macedonia.
The Bulgarian element in that province
is on the move. The Turkish authori- |
ties, supported by the Musselman pOpu-
latiOn, are reSOrting to strong measures |
of repression. Meanwhile, accounts |
coming from the Polish frontier give |
particulars of Russian military prepare
tons, which are evidently to a great |
extent founded on facts. Accord |
quarters of the frontier army is with |
the general staff at Kischtneff. There |
are subdivisions at Kamenee, Jarmo- |
lince. and Proskirotf. There will be the |
first line attack, and is formed of cav |
airy, principally dragons. They are at |
present constantly engaged in outpost |
duty on the roads leading to the Cali |
clan frontier. The second line consists |
of infantry. the stats of which are quar- |
tered at Haisyn. Braclaw, Tulezsyn, |
and Nimirow. Besides these troops, a !
considerable number of chaSseurS. are |
cautioned in the same direction. This |
portion of
TIE FRONTIER ARMY
constitutes an uninterrupted chain, each |
link comprising one, two or three bat |
taliOnS. The remainder are stationed |
at KraSilow, Kostatinow, Krezimines, |