Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-17
SURROUNDED BY POLICE.

A host of Russian police will guard tht
approaches to the villa and they will be as
sisted by 30 German police who left here OF
Thursday. Public traffic on the railway
connecting Narva with st. Petersburg has
been suspended, and the line will be used
solely for official business dnring the com.
ing week. The road has been thoroughly
inspected and watch has been set along
the line. A few newspaper men have OBJ
tained permits under conditions which will
subject their reports to strict censorship.
M. de Giers arrived at st. Petersburg to-
day from his summer residence in England
and will proceed to Narva, where the mill
tary maneuvers begin on Monday next
The imperial conferences, at which Chan
cellor Won Caprivi and NJ. de Giers will be
present, are expected to last over three days.
If the Emperor tails to persuade the Gar
toward permanent policy of peace, the
conditions to be arranged through a revision
of the Berlin treaty by another European
Congress, the official opinion is decided
that rapid developments tending toward
European conflict are certain 10 follow.
RUSSIA COURTS FRANCE.
The Russian Government appears to be
acting in full concert with the French au-
thorities. The holiday leave of Baron Won
Mohrenheim, the Russian ambassador at
Paris, was stopped in order to have him re-
main at his post in communication with NJ.
Ribot regarding what passes between EN-
peror William and the Gear. Sir D.
Morier, the British Embas sador to Russia,
passed through here on train tonight, re-
turning to bis post at st. Petersburg from
London to watch the negotiations.
Baron Won Mohrenheim was the medium
of the representations against the persecu-
tion of the Hebrews, which led to the
abandonment OF the application of the
ukases. The relations of the leading
Hebrew hRancial houses in Germany and
Austria toward the Russian Government are
such as to render the success of a re-
monstrance improbable. Hebrew firms in
Paris influenced the French Government TO
operate upon the Russian authorities.
THE BANKERS DID 1T.
Even the advice of the French might not
have availed unless it had been backed by
an intimation that the Hebrew bankers in
Paris would join the German and English
combination against Russian stocks. The
Rothschllds took the initiative in the pro-
test and followed it up with subsequent
energetic action until the assurance was OBJ
tanned that the existing condition of the
Russian Hebrews would not be made worse
Herr Herfurth, Minister OF the Interior,
has sent a circular to the authorities rela-
tive to the measures to be adopted to re-
strain the Socialist propaganda on the ex-
piration of the special law against the So
cialists. The circular directs a severe ap-
plication OF the ordinary laws against them.
The police must not hesitate to dissolve
meetings at which seditious speeches are
made, or to suppress doubtful associations.
SAY IT MEANS OPPRESSION.
The Progressist papers regret the issuing
OF the circular as practical renewal Of the
special measures against the Socialists The
prospect that the coming Congress will end
in rupture in the ranks Of the party in
creases.
Herr Ritter, a free Conservative member of
the lower house of the Prussian diet, in a
speech at Waldenburg to-day, said from
personal observation in the State council he
had the highest appreciation of the person
ality OF the Emperor. The speech will draw
the attention of the whole country.
Chancellor Won Caprivi's interview with
Signor CrisDi, the Italian prime minister,
has been liked to take place at the end Of
the month.