The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-01-06
FOREIGN ECHOES.
Seryile Yelping of the Ger
man Press.
PROP eEFFcKES RELEASED.
The Dutch King Dying Emin ssy
in Eharteum-Gerna Killed
in samoa.

Goyyriyhssa. Issa, by the Associated PrcSsi
BEEIES. Jan. S-Coant Herbert Bis
marck vas tonight given diplomatic
dinner at which Count SchouvaleI,
Russian ambassador. NJ. Herhette.
French ambassador. and other heads
Of legations we're present. During the
course of the evening Count Herbert.
speaking 10 Count Won Hatzfeldt, Ger
man minister to England. promised
under request OF the Emperor 10
exoneraie Sir Robert Norier. British
ambassador to Russia, from anv
charges connected with the Baxaine
iseident This result was cammuni-
Gated TO Morier, who expresses HIM
self as dissatisfied He says the Off
eial print make the charge and there
must be an Official withdrawal. Lord
SaiishUry, IA a personal com munica-
ton 20 Prince bismarck, asks him 10
order direct statement that the whole
charge is absurd.
Emperor William and the whole
court went to-day % hunt villa boars.
Lieut.. WiSSmann's regiment. the
Second Foot Guards. is now attached
to the foreign office for special service
in East Africa. In consequence of
this appointment the Emin relief COM
mittee has relieved Wissmann from
all connection with the relief eXpetii-
ton, and has nominated Or. Peters
chief leader in place Of Wissmann-
Wissmann post under the foreign
office ia understood ~ be that OF
imperial eommissaFy of Germany. and
has nothing 10 10 with the East
. Africa Company.
/ The lsndtag l. convoked for the
l4th inst. 4 measure will be presented
increasing the kings civil list bv
3. 600 Go marks This sum being aG-
ditiouat TO the amount required from
the reichStag. The semi-otiicial papers
argue that the allowance should he
more; that Gccording TO the feeling in
Berlin it oaght to be double the
amount asked.
The ReicAs A5t-giqcr publishes a re-
script fFom Emperor William to
Prince Bismarck bearing date Deem
Der 81, which reads;
near P-,acs; The year which has brought
as such heavy yisiiations and such irrevoe-
able losses draws to an end. II IS Q joy
aud solace % thiak that ven stiil stand 10y
ally by my side. with fresh strength, 70 ca
ter up9H the rear. From my whole heart
| invoke upon YOU happiness and blessing.
but above all uninterrupted good health.
trust 10 Sod that may still be permitted 10
labor with You for the welfare and great
ness of enr fatherland. Wilhelm.
The papers to-day generally COM
ment on the Morier affair. The Vas
sisrhe Zeifitng remarks that the accusa-
ton of Morier rests on the controver-
sial assertion of n man who is no
.4as.. hTk n a 4
In support of the charge: therefore il
cannot be regarded as convincing. The
ZeitunJ saws it is only surpris-
ing that plain contradiction
between Marshal Bazaine's statement
90 MAJOR ven Deitz aud the known
history OF the facts should not have
been proved by Won Deitz himself,
v 40 seems to have been willing TO
forge n weapon with which 20 strike
at the memory of Emperor Frederick.
The Fsaixsaige Zeifang says the Ger
man people await what Count Her
bert has to say officially on the mat
ter. As things stand, German diplo-
macy has not covered itself with
glory over the question.
The National Zeifing holds that
Morier, IN his appeal to Count Her
bert, was over-eontident.
The comments suggest a similar
question as to whether he. Prince Bis
marck and. Count Herbert will come
out OF the affair as slanderers or cow
ards. Morier, according TO the senti-
ment OF the English embassy here
and the general feeling in official
circle will compel Count Herbert to
apologize. IS the meantime the
semi-official press shows no signs OF
abating the attacks on Merier, rather
{ trying to sup port the assaults. To-
night Beriiasy BOrSea Zciitaig has a
yaguely-worded official statement de
claring that the government has
proof as TO the means by which Morier
obtained information concerning the
movements and offensive plans OF the
German troops, and also how he made
use of the information by sending II 10
I the London Times.
The North German Ggsens ignores
/ the Morier correspondence. The con
1 servative josrals pTint the letter, but
none OF them comment on the affair
excepting the Reiehsbote. which
expresses a hope that the era OF
personal aspersions will soon end.
Itis now asserted that bin viii be
presented in the Reichstag for credit
OF from twelve TO fifty million marks,
for the purpose Of increasing the artii-
ierY strength OF the army.
BISMARCK UTTERLY DEFEATED.
The Frsiseaaige Zeifuag, after remark
ing that Prof. Geficken spent - DAYS
in prison, says Prince Bismarck rec
ords a greyious failure before the whole
world. Such a thing hes scarcely ever
happened before in the course OF his
& - tarfaf aara.r