Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-06-16
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The Dead Emperor.


| mortem examination yesterday afternoon,
and that afterwards the body was embalm-
ed. It is reported also that the ex Empress
will 90 to Italy after the funeral.
1t is stated that Emperor William II and
Bismarck have compiled programme and
that the Emperor will continue the former
policy.
PARIS, June 16 "A person who saw the
Emperor at Charlottenburg preserved pa
per wherein the Emperor had written tho
| following
zone of the most consoling circumstances
of my severe trial is to be shown what is
said of me in the French papers. I certain.
ly endeavored by every means in my power
to mitigate the hardshps of war when was
at Versailles. but still war was very rigor
Gus, as it must always be to the conquered.
1t gives me fresh faith in human nature to
| find how the French forget the evil had to
| do them and only remember these that were
good. Their present state of feeling makes
me hate war more than I ever did in my
| life."
The Paris papers without exception ex
press deep sympathy for the bereaved EN-
press and sorrow at the death Of Tho Fun.
peror, to the beauty of whose moral nature
full justice is done.
VIENNA, June 16.-The Neue Freie Presse
publishes letter from Prof Virohow, dated
Berlin, March q, dealing with the attacks
| upon DR.. Mackenzie, wherein he declares
that he, Or. Mackenzie) with his great ex
perience, certainly agreed with the dag
nosis of his German colleagues, and in con.
cealing the nature of the malady from the
| Emperor acted as man and as physician
should act In such a case. Deception In
such circumstances, he adds is moral act.
BERLIN, June 16 The trooi of the gar
rison have taken the oath of allegiance 20
Emperor William H. The dowager EN-.
press Augusta is expected to arrive at Pots.
| dam to morrow.
BERLIN, June 16 Emperor William II
has issued the following general order to
the army:
while the army has only just discarded
the outward signs Of mourning for the Em-
peror-King, William I. my deeply revered
grandfather, whose memory will ever live
in 81 hearts, it has suffered fresh and
heavy blow by the death OF my dear and
warmly loved father This Is indeed a go.
rious and sOrrowfu time, In which Gods
decree places me at the head of the army.
1t is from deeply moved heart l address
my first words to my army, but the conf.
dence with which step into the place to
which Gods will calls me il immovably
strong, for l know what sense of honor and
duty my glorious ancestors have implanted
in the army and know In how great mea.
sure this feeling has at all times been mani
tested 10 the army. A firm and inviolable
attachment to the war lord Ia an inheritance
handed down from father to son from gen.
Grafton to generation, and 10 the same way
l refer you TO my grandfather, who stands
fresh In all your memories as the personi6-
cation of the glorious and venerable war
lord, such as could not be more finely con-
ceived or in form more speaking to the
heart. [ refer you to my beloved father,
who as Crown Prince already won place of
honor in the annals of the army, and to
long line of glorious ancestors whose names
shine brightly in history, and whose hearts
beat warmly for the army. Thus we belong
to each other-I aud the army. Thus we
were born for one another and thus we will
stand together in an indissoluble bond in
peace or storm as God may will it. You
will low take to me the oath of fidelity and
obedience and 1 swear ever 10 remember |
that the eyes of my ancestors look down
upon me from the other world and that |
shall one day have to render an account to
them for the glory and honor OF army"
WILLIAM"
An order has also been issued to the navy. |
BERLIN, June 16.-The court has been or.
dered to 60 into mourning for the late EN-. |
peror for three months.
LONDON, June 16.-The Chronicle SAYS it |
fears the feeling of brotherly sympathy
which binds Eoglishmen to the Germans 80.
cialy as we'll as politically will tend soon to
disappear.
BERLIN, June 16-The kilograms of Pres.
ident Cleveland and the Emperor of Brazil
were among the 6rst to be received.
LONDON, June l6.-Tbe Prince and Prin.
cess OF Wales, Prince Albert Victor, Prince
Christian, Dake Paul of Meckenbure.
schwerien and the Marquis of Lorne will
start for Berlin tonight The Prince and
Princess of Wales announce that their fu.
ture programme for home affairs Is for the
present either postponed or cancelled.
BERLIN, June 16-The body of the En-.
peror has been embalmed, but by the de.
ceaaed Emperor's own request, will not lie
in state.