The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-13
EUR0PE'S TALK OF WAR.
THE OUTCOME OF THE BALKAN
ROW STILL IN DOUBT.

ABhlusG EaCn OJDer.
tCOpuiOhted, 1890, By the Nep York associated
Press)
BERLIN, July 12-Emperor William ON
arriving at Eide on the Faa Ford Thurs
day sent dispatch to Chancellor Won
Caprivi announcing his intention to shorten
his voyage and return to Kiel July
81. The gravity of the situation
in the Balkans and the increased
prospect of trouble with France over the
English agreement makes necessary the
emperor's presence, and keeps both the
chancellor and Minister Miguel from taking
holiday. The other ministers, Herren
Won Berlapsch, Won Boetticher, Won Gossler
and Furth, are absent from Berlin, but
they have been warned not
to arrange for protracted
leave. Although the prospects of perma-
nent peace in Europe begin to appear
doubtful, official confidence remains strong
In the continuance Of repose for some time
to come 1t is even probable that the abdi-
cation Of Prince Ferdinand, with the sequent
revolution in Bulgaria, will not be allowed
to involve an immediate European war.
DIPLOMACY TO BE EXHAUSTED.
The maintenance of peace, according to the
official view, is certain until after the con-
ference between Emperor William and the
car at st. Petersburg, when the resources
of diplomacy will be exhausted in a final
effort to harmonic Austrian and Russian
relations in the Balkan peninsula The
Russian newspapers NOUce Premud, NoUostt
and VtedOmOsti concur in the hopeful
view that Emperor William, freed from the
tutelage of Prince Bismarck, will succeed
In his efforts TO effect an smicable arrange
ment with the Gar. Official opinion here,
based on the known fact that Emperor
William has definite proposals to lay before
the czar, is also hopeful. The czar has Jas
yet given no sign of how he will receive
them.
RUSSIAN WAR PARTY.
The BerLiner Tdgebldtt has telegram
from Rome which purports to give infor-
nation drawn from Prime Minister Crispi.
In this it is asserted that the czar's advisers,
considering the time opportune, insist upon
war. The chiefs Of the driebund, the tele-
gram adds, will make united efforts to
maintain peace. They have the have the
g avest and most urgent reasons for prepar-
ing for eventualities.
M. de Giers, the Russian minister of
foreign affairs, is now making a tour Of
Finland. He will return to st. Petersburg
TO assist in the imperial interviews
Count Schouveloff, the Russian ambassa-
dor to Germany, will leave here for st.
! Petersburg at the end of the month for the
same purpose. The exact date of these
momentous interviews has not yet been
fixed, but they will probably begin
Aug. II.
FRANCE AND THE AFRICAN AFFAIR
shadiflculties have arisen in France
over the fifth article of the convention
which affirms the reciprocal regime of Ger
many and England within the terri
tories between Benue river and Lake
Tchad The article did not
appear in the first published draft of the
| convention, and since the official text has
been issued the French government has
discovered that the article Is an interfer-
ence with the French claim to the upper
Niger, besides leading to future extension of
the Anglo-German spheres of infiu-
ence from the Niger to the Nile.
If Nj. Ribot continues to make recognition
of the French claim IN the Niger district
condition of the withdrawal Of his opposi-
ton to the Zanzibar protectorate, an amic-
| able settlement is improbable.
THE EMBARGO ON OUR PORK
Mr.. Phelps, the American minister, has
received from Hamburg copy of a petition
| which has been sent to Chancellor
| Won Caprivl and which bears the signatures
of various steamship companies and leading
| firms and corporations. The petitioners
ask for the resembling of the prohibition
against American pork. They urge that
| Germany cannot produce enough pork to
satisfy her own wants, and that the price
| OF pork has risen so enormously that the
poor people cannot buy it. The wholesale
| price of German salted bacon is 130 marks
| per 100 Kilograms, while American bacon
can pay the duty and be sold
| at S5 marks. Pork imported from
| neighboring states, although bringing high
prices, is not as good as the American arti-
| cle When the prohibition law was en-
| acted there was no official examination of
pork in America, whereas the United
States government is now ready to make
whatever inspection Germany may ask.
When American pork has been allowed to
enter this country no case of illness has yet
been traced to its use. If the American
inspection should be insufficient there could
be one made in Germany as well. The
petition concludes by asking that the i'm
portation of American pork be allowed in
the interest of the working classes and of
the commerce and shipping of Germany.
BISMARCK AND HELIGOLAND.
TheHamburger Ndchrichten tonight, in
an article inspired by Prince Bismarck, dis
putes the necessity for a decision by the
Reichstag or Landtagy regarding the future
position Of Heligoland, and says that the
island, until the present a British colony,
will fall within reach of the German colo
nies and be placed under the
imperial administration without the
necessity Of making it a portion
Of the empire. Constitutional require
ments would be well filed if the British
government be replaced by a German and
the affairs Of the island be administered by
the German department. The article aims
to embarrass the government in its project
of making the island an ouuwork of the
empire 1t is assured that the English
parliament will assent to the cession Of the
island.
HOSTING OF THE FLAG.
Chancellor Won Caprivi has arranged with
Lord Salisbury to have the German flag
hoisted on the island in the presence of the
feet commanded by the Dake Of Edinhurg
and the squadron escorting Emperor Will
lam. This ceremony viii take place some
time in September. Minister Won Boet-
ticher has already been instructed to go
TO Heligoland in August to arrange
for the installation. Councillor Wermuth
has been appointed provisional chief. These
arrangements, if carried Into effect, will
make Heligolaud part Of the empire before
the Reichstag assents to it.
Official feeling against Prince Bismarck
has been heightened since the report Of an
interview with him appeared In tho Frank
fort Journal. Even his friends admit that
he has been indiscreet in his revelation of
knowledge obtained by him while In office.
His statement that the Emperoris