The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-09-29
A Curious Prophecy Recalled BY Emperor
Villains Proposed Visit to Constantinople,I
Which Also Tends to Annoy Russia.
Dock Strike in Holland Likely to Change
from Rotterdam to Amsterdam.
Customs officer Thought to Have Been Killed
by the Strikers-HOw the German Army
Would Reach France in the Event Of War.
RUSSIA AND GERMANY.
The Czar's Visit and Bismarck's Scheme 70
Forcing a Political Conference.

The Czar's Visit and Bismarck's Scheme for
Forcing Political Conference.
rCopyrght 1882 by the New York Associated Press
BERLIN, Sept. 2s.-The Gar has sent an
autograph letter to Emperor William, stat
ing that the Czarina has caught cold, and
that her physicians have advised her to de-
lay her departure for several days. The
Car asks that the final directions for his
reception at Potsdam be delayed. Prince
Bismarck has since communicated with
Count Schouvaloff. the Russian Minister,
in regard to the arrangements of the Gar,
in the event of his coming to Ber-
lin. Count Schouvalof replied that
he had orders to prepare to re-
ceive the Gar and his suite at
the embassy. The Czar himself has not in
timated his intentions beyond his visit to
Potsdam. The Emperor will go to
Schwerin on Tuesday as the guest of the
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg. According
to the National Zeitung. the Cars visit is
officially fixed for Oct. 0. The absence of
M. DeGiers, the Russian Prime Minister,
who is now staying in a remote part Of the
province of Tambour does not appear to
affect Prince Bismarck's determination to
have an audience with the Gar.
The week has been signalized by an out
break of the war clamor by the semi official
press. The Cologne Gazette publishes an
alarmist article on the extension of the
Russian strategic railways on the frontier.
which the North German Gazette promi-
nently quotes There is simultaneous re-
appearance of war notes in the Chancellor s
organs. The Vienna papers fOment the
scare by statements that the Russians
along the frontiers of Galicia and Bukovi-
na are in active motion. Six regiments of
cavalry and four of infantry have they
say, arrived from the interior. Observa-
tiOn towers are being erected close to the
Galician frontier, the whole aspect of the
country giving the impression that the
army is making strategic march. These
reports have been directly. suppressed by
the Vienna and Berlin ministries.
Bismarck's motive In re-creating agita-
tion over the Russian ornaments on the
eve of the Cars reception is variously in
terpreted. Recalling the incidents prior to
the last interview the Czar accorded him
here it is obvious that the Chancellor aims
to place the Car again under the necessity
of granting political conference. The re-
ports also serve other purposes as they tend
to balk Russia's efforts to negotiate loan
for the payment of the cost of the repeat
ing rifles ordered in France, and to prepare
the Reichstag to accept e. pew military
bill which is now know *
ira credit of 24n, 900 900 marks But If the
indifference shown by the bprse over the
attempted scare forecasts the feeling of the
Reichstag, Prince Bismarck will find the
members less susceptible than formerly to
the old trick.
The Cars aversion to meeting the Chan
cellor or to giving his visit any character
other than a formal courtesy, has been
intensified by the projected journey of EN-
peror William to Constantinople. The pro-
graInme of the Emperor's tour is now an
nOunced to include visit to Bucharest,
which will further annoy the Gar.
The Moscow papers ask if Bismarck
dreams of detaching the Greeks from their
traditions of a Russian alliance. The
Greeks attach superstitious import to the
marriage of the Duke of Sparta and Prin-
cess Sophie; An old prophecy is re.
reproduced here, to the effect that
the Mosque of st. Sophia, in Constantinople,
will be restored to the Christians under
the rule of a Greek Emperor named Con-
stantine. with wife called Sophia. The
coincidence of the Duke of Sparta's name
Constantine, and that of the Princess So.
phia is exciting the imagination of all
Greeks as a hopeful angury of coming
events, a feeling which Bismarck will take
advantage of. The Empress will accompany
the Emperor to COnstantinOple, and will
stay on the imperial yacht while the Sultan
entertains his Majesty.