Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-07-20
EMPEROR WILLIAM.
AFFAIRS IN THE EAST FASTENING TO
A CRIsIS-CONFsRENCE WITH
THE CAR.
French Claims to he Submitted to . Com
mission-Thc Ex-Empress Threat
ems TO Prosecute Bismarck I'm
der Certain Conditions
Copyright, 1890. BY the New York Associated


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BERLIN, July 1e.-Emperor William has
announced that he will return to Wilhes-
haven from his trip in the Norwegian
waters July 22d. Ministers Duverners and
Mouauet will meet him there. The
Reiclssanzei9er last night declared that the
plans for his trip had not been altered
owing to the political situation. but the
facts contradict the official statement that
arrangements wero made for his voyage to
extend n week longer. The affairs in the
East are fastening to crisis, and TINS
caused the Emperor 10 advance the date Oh
his conference with the Car.
Count Schouvalon. the Russian ambas-
sador to Berlin, VINO is now In 81. Peters
burg. has sent Chancellor Won Capriyi O
formal intimation that the Car will re-
ceive Emperor william on August 10th.
The great mannuvres to which Emperor
William has been invited will begin Au-
gust 18th and last few weeks.
ARMENIA AND BULGARIA.
The More Trernd SAYS that the position in
Armenia and Bulgaria will remain IN s'd'u
quo as far as Russian action il concerned
until the imperial interviews ore over.
Emperor William will probably make
f
KEEL for Cronstadt.
The French claims TO the sphere OF inhu-
ence from Senegal 20 Lake fchad VIII be
submitted TO commission composed OF
German, English, and French officials.
Ribot, the French Minister OF Foreign
Affairs, objected to the German representa-
ton on the commission on the ground that
the disputed territory from Niaer to Lake
Tchad did not touch the German interests.
Chancellor Won Caprivi and Lord Salisbury
declined thus to admit 1t in the article OF
agreement dealing with the Anglo-German
trade in the countries drained by the Niger.
Nj. kibot was constrained TO assent. The
German Chancellors official memorandum
OF agreement IS ready for issue
as soon as the English Parliament
ratifies the treaty of Heligoland.
thizes with the German regrets over the
apparent extension of the English infiu-
ence in East Africa. At the same time it
maintains that the importance OF Zanzibar
is exaggerated and cannot compare with
Hellgoland's value. Germany has long
coveted the island and there have been
ceaseless appeals made to the Government
&c acquire Its archives of chancell' ere. 1t
concludes with the statement that the con-
vention is based on Just regard OF the
pretensIons and aspirations of both coun-
tries.
BIsM.RcK's KNOWLEDGE or STATE AFFAIRS.
The question Of Prince Bismarcks right
to dIvulge directly or suggestively through
interviews bis knowledge of State affairs
acquired while he was Minister VIII be de-
cided Immediately upon the EmperOrs re-
turn. The ex-Empress has Just intensified
his anger bv warning him that If the report
is true that ne is preparing his memoirs he
must publish none of her letters or her
husbands without her consent. and init
mating indirectly that he would be prose-
cuted IL he failed TO comply. Forthwith
the Prince selected from the list OF appli-
Giants for an interview with him the CORE
spondent of the Dresdeney Nach,iten for his
hostility to the Empress Frederick and &C
corded him an interview which lasted seve-
raj hours. The official explanation is that
the Emperor Will direct an application to
Prince Bismarck of the rescript which the
Prince prepared after the Won Arnim trial
ordering the ministers of state to take an
oath not to publish anything relating TO
State business without permission from
the Sovereign. Other provisions of the re-
script give validity 10 the actions OF the
Empress Frederick.
SECRET MEETING OF PRINCES.
Att secret meeting of Prince Alexander
of Battenberg, and the Prince of Bulgaria
in Bohemia, the Prince asked for en- ex-
plicit assurance that Prince Ferdinand
Alexander would not return. He asked
what meaning was to ne attached to bis
ADOPTION of Major Panitza's child. He
said he felt IT to be useless TO continue his
struggle to maintain himself rs the ruler
OF Sofa if Prince Alexander was 10 be his
rival. Prince Alexander protested that he
had no ambition to return to Bulgaria.
Panitzs's boy, he explained. was his god
son and the adoption of the boy had no.
thing to do with politics. He advised
Prince Ferdinand 10 return to his post and
govern consttutionally, and he promised
that if war should break out he would
serve in the Bulgarian army IN any ca
pacity.
The report first published by the Ham,
burg correspondent to the effect that Minis
ter Lucius in receiving deputation on
traffic in American pork through Holland
expressed an intention 10 rescind the prohl-
bition in October appears IN all the papers.
Mr.. Phelps. United States Minister, has
seen Herr Lucius. who states that the
Government is still unwilling to take such
a step.
Professor yirchow. replying to the pro-
test Of the French physician against a
Frenchman taking part IN the Berlin Medl-
cal Congress. criticises such Chavinism as
a morbid condition which cruel expert
ence appears not to have cured France.
The medical men, he says, ought TO be ami
mated by sentiments of mutual esteem.
The bill which IS being prepared for the
Iandtag fixes the maximum working-day
in the mines and provides for the appoint
ment of inspectors with the same power as
are held by factory inspectors.