Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-02
CROWNED HEADS.
Proposed Meeting of the
POtentates.
WILLIAM AND ALEXANDER
Bismarck Will Not Be There
Alleged Plot Against the
New Kaiser.

New Kaiser.
sCopyright, 1883, by New York Associates
Press.
BERLIN, June 3O.-If the present ar
rangements looking to an interview be.
tween Emperor William II and the Czar
come to satisfactory conclusion, the
meeting will take place at Kronstadt on
the 14th of July. Prince Bismarck, ac-
cording to official opinion, will not
accompany the Emperor. The promise
of the visit of the Emperor to the Gar is
a personal matter, and gives proof of his
desire to maintain the friendship which
has existed between the two reigning
families for over 100 years, and which is
cemented by ties Of kinship. Doubtless
the emperors will not meet without ex-
changing views on the political situation.
Prince Bismarck, who goes to Fred
ricksruhe on Monday, was yesterday and
to-day in conference with Emperor Will
liam, 1t is reasonably surmised he has
been placing the Emperor in possession
of ideas as to what attitude to preserve
during his interview with the Czar. The
Chancellor's furlough, it is understood,
at the Foreign Office, will extend to the
middle of August. He is suffering from
prolonged troubles and excitement. He
has been in Berlin since the end of Janu-
ary, and has constantly been harrassed
by an incessent stream of worries.
Public opinion in Austria has grown
alarmed at the approachment Of the
meeting OF the Emperors. 1t appears to
dread the breaking up of the alliance,
which event would leave Austria to face
Russia alone. These fears are not shared
by the ro-Hungarian ministers.
Apart from the assurances contained in
Emperor Williams speech from the
throne, communications between the
Berlin and Vienna foreign offices point
to the acquiescenceof the Austrian govern
ment in plan to permit Bismarck to re-
sumo meditation in trying to obtain a
modus uiuendi between Russia and the
Central Alliance, but whatever projects
are broached at the interview between
the Emperor and the Gear, nothing will
be effected till subsequent interviews
have taken place between Bismarck,
Signor Crispi and Count Kalnotki.
An Italian official organ says the Ger
man, Austrian and Russian Emperors,
if their foreign ministers can find solu-
tion of the present differences, will meet
in Silesia during the autumn.
The Berlin Post in semi-official articles
expresse doubts if anything will result
from the conference with the Gar, and
says it does not wish to discourage hopes
of peace, but if war does come it will
originate from internal or international
necessity and not through the ambition
of princes.
The summing up Of the position is
that after almost ceaseless coming and
going of statesmen and crowned heads,
diplomacy will finally leave the nations
to face the issues of war.
Much is whispered privately, though
the press does not venture openly to refer
to it, of an Anarchist plot against the life
of the Emperor. The Berlin Socialists de-
clare that the conspiracy is the inven-
ton of the police. Official circles take
the matter seriously, and an extraordin-
ary increase in precautions has been
taken to guard the person of both the
Emperor and Bismarck. The present
alarm arose on information being re-
ceived by the police from agents in
Zurich and London, simultaneously,
that among the Socialists recently ex-
PEELED from Zurich and now taking
refuge in London, plot to assassinate
the Emperor had been perfected,
and that the conspirators, armed with
bombs, had gone to Hamburg en- route
to Berlin. At the same time menacing
letters reached Prince Bismarck and the
Emperor, warning them that the begin
ming of reign OF repression of the people
would be signalized by an act of retalia-
ton. Arrests Of suspects have been
made at Hamburg, LEIPZIG. Berlin and
elsewhere. Police are watching the
Chancellor's residence on Wilhelm
Strasse. Official expectation is that the
Emperor will authorize some severity
against the Socialists. Every Socialist
leader represents the report as
mere pretext for reactionary
measures, besides being a gross
misrepresentation of Socialist spirit.
They have no desire to shorten the days
of the Chancellor or Emperor. They
wish to pursue peaceful propaganda, and
in the hope that the events OF Emperor
Williams reign will tend naturally to de-
velop their cause.
Besides the retirement of General Won
Caprie from the admiralty, changes are
dDOut W Uo uudu0 ia pCNOAdA OtACA hASA
commands. The Emperor displays a
personal bias both in the choice of
household officers and the wedding out of
some of the oldest corps commanders.
Officials of the admiralty predict, from
plans being prepared, that there will
soon be in course of construction num-
ber of frst-class iron-clads with less ex.
penditure on the torpedo feet.
According to the TagblaH an increase
in the Prussian civil list will be pro-
posed.
The Kreus Zeitung says Prince Bis
marck has induced Russia to abandon
indefinitely the idea Of making an alli-
ance with France.
Gladstone Will stand AloOf.
LONDON, July 1.-Gladstone in a letter
to the Edinburgh Printing and Allied
Trades Union says he supports theil
agitation against the American copy righ,
bill, but his public meddling as poll
tician at the present stage might tend te
stimulate the jealousies and susceptible
tiles of American protectionism, thus in
juring those who fight the battle of JUS
tice and good sense. Let us as politicians
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