New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-16
QTEEN NIT1LIE.


There is something very strange about the
course Of the German Government in the case
Of Oueen Natalie of Servia. The Queen her.
self may not be entitled to much sympathy
Though the spectacle of Il helpless woman
dragooned so brutaly by the police and or
dered out of Germany as if she had been
malefactor. is certainly calculated to arouse the
feeling which ANYTHING like an abuse OF physi-
cal force excites in healthy minded people. 1t
will be thought by such Observers that even IL
the law justified the removal OF the Crown
Prince from his mothers custody, the object
MIGHT have been effected without this show OF
coarse brutality. 1t could not have been ncces-
sary to put a military Gordon round the villa
where the Queen was residing, or to invade
her home with Il strong detachment OF armed
men, Clearly she had no means OF resisting
the demands of the Government, and the OIL
fensive ostentation of the cOercive measures
emploved against this feeble princess suggests
that some Interior purpose was served by the
extraordinary manner Of the proceedings.
Why the German Government should desire
to show its aacrity in helping King Milan to
control his rccalcitrant Wifc--lf she Is his WIFE
stills The obscure feature of the case. Queen
Natalie is Russian by birth and sympathles'
and whatever more intimate causes may have
existed for the rupture between her and king
Milan, it is notorious that one of the incitlng
influences, If not the principal one, was her IN
trigues with NJ. Ristics looking to the deposl-
ton Of her husband and the establishment OF
herself as Regent in the interest OF Russia. In
fact il may be said that all her energies while
she was recognized as Queen of Seryia were
directed to strengthening the Russian hoid upon
her adopted country She was little more
than Russian agent in short, and it was from
her behavior in that role that King Milan de-
rived the justification for banishng her from
Seryia The King, her husband, himself as
tonshed many people when he took Rlstics
into his Government, notwithstanding that
politicians almost open treason, but 1T was
concluded that in taking this step he counted
upon securing good relations with Russia, ana
at the same time leaving himself free to get
rid Of, perhaps to punish, his unfathful WIFE
1t is, Of course, possible that the Gar
Government, seeing that Natalie can no longer
be Of use TO it, and having sufficient agent
and representative at the Servian court in the
person of Ristics has decided to throw over
board the unlucky Queen, as Governments
have been known to do before. This, indeed,
appears to offer the only plausible explanation
of proceeding which, on the theory that
Russia continues to regard Natalie as friend
deserving protection and recognition, would
he almost jneXplicable. The fact that this
action against the Queen OF Servia is taken
simultaneously with the departure of Emperor
William on his visit to the CZar may be said
to compel such a solution Of the case; for 1t Is
hardly credible that the young Emperor, guld-
ed by Bismarck, as all the world supposes hlm
to be- would choose this moment for the adop-
ton of a course which on It's face looks like
direct slight upon the Government whose
hospitality he is about TO accept. But II King
Milan has made his peace with Russia; If Queen
Natalie is, rs u consequence OF this arrange
ment, abandoned by her former friends and
patrons, then. in expelling her and kidnapping
her child, Prince Bismarck has only shown