Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-13


state that Russia desires war. Influential
petitions are being presented to the Govern
ment asking for the repeal of the law pro-
hIbiting the importation of American pork.
COPYRIGHT, 1890 BY THE NEW YORK ASSOCIATED
PREssl
BERLIN, July 12.-Emperor William, on
arriving at Eide, on the Faa Fiord, on
Thursday, sent q dispatch to Chancellor
Won Caprivi announcing his intention to
shorten his voyage and return to
Kiel on July q. The gravity
of the situation in the Balkans
France over the English agreement, makes
necessary the Emperor's presence and keeps
both the Chancellor and Minister Miguel
from taking a holiday. The other
Ministers, Herren Won Berlepsch, Won
Boetticher, Won Gossler and Herr
Furth are absent from Berlin,
but they have been warned not to arrange
for protracted leave. Although the pros
poets OF permanent peace in Europe begin
to appear doubtful, Official confidence re-
mains strong in the continuance of repose
for some time to come.
PEACE ASSURED FOR SOME TIME.
Even the probable abdication of Prince
Ferdinand with a sequent revolution In
Bulgaria will not be allowed to involve an
immediate European war. The malnte-
nance of peace according to the of1clal
view, is certain until alter the conference
between Emperor W lillian and the Gear at
ST. Petersburg, when the resources OF
diplomacy will be exhausted in final effort
to harmonize Austrian and Russian rela-
tions in the Balkan peninsula,
TIE Russian newspapers, the NoUoe
VremgG, the NoUoStt and the ptedoiRost1,
concur in the hopeful view that Emperor
William, freed from the tutelage Of Prince
Bismarck, will succeed in his efforts to effect
an amicable ARRANGEMENT with the Car.
Official opinion here, based on the known
fact that Emperor William has definite pro-
posals to lay before the Gar, is also hopeful.
The Gar has as yet given no sign OF how he
will receive them.
RUSSIA INSISTS UFoN WAR.
The Berliner Tdgebldtt has a telegram
from Rome which purports to give informa-
tion drawn from Prime Minister Crispi. In
this it is asserted that the Cars advisers,
considering the time opportune, insist upon
war The chiefs of the Dreibund. the tele-
gram adds, will make united efforts to
maintain peace. They have the grsvest
eventualities.
NJ. de Giers, the Russian Minister of
Foreign Affairs, is now making tour of
Finland. He will return to ST. Petersburg
to assist in the Imperial interviews.
Count Schouvalof, the Russian Ambas-
sador 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 on August IL.
PROTEST FILED BY FRANCE.
Fresh difficulty has arisen in France over
the fifth article of the convention which
afirms the reciprocal regime of Germany
and England within the territories 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 Govern
ment has discovered that the article is
an interference with the French
claim to the Upper Niger, besides leading to
the future extension of the Anglo German
spheres of influences from the Niger to the
Nile. IF NJ. Ribot continues to make the
recognition OF the French claims in the
Niger district the condition of the with
drawal of his opposition to the Zanzibar
protectorate an amicable settlement is i'm
probable.
WANT AMERICAN PORK.
Mr.. Phelps, the American minister, has
received from Hamburg a copy of peti-
ton which has been sent to Chancellor Won
Caprivi, 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 Ger
many cannot produce enough pork to satisfy
har of h
has risen so enormously that poor people
cannot buy it. The wholesale price of Ger
man salted bacon is 130 marks per 100 kilo-
grammes, while American bacon can pay a
duty and be sold at So marks. Pork i'm
ported from neighboring States, although
bringing high prices, is not as good as the
American article. When the prohibition
was enacted there was no official examina-
ton of pork in America, whereas the
United States Government is now
ready to make whatever inspection Ger
many may ask. When American pork has
been allowed to enter the country no case of
illness has ever been traced 70 Its use. II
the American inspection should be insult
cient there could be one made in Germany
as well. The petition concludes by asking
that the importation of American pork be
allowed in the interests OF the working
classes and of the commerce and shipping of
Germany.
BIsMARCK'S ADVICE TO THE REICHsTAG.
The Hamburger Nachrichten tonight, in
an article inspired by Prince Bismarck, dis
putes the necessity for an immediate decis-
ion of the Reichstag or Landtag regarding
the future position of Heligoland, and says
that island, until the present British COL
ony, will be handed as such to Germany,
and will thus fall within the category of |
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der the imperial administration without |
the necessity of making it a portion of |
the empire. The constitutional require |
ments, the paper says, would be fulfilled If |
the British Governor be replaced by Ger |
man, and the affairs of the island be admin |
istered BY the ColonisI Department. The |
article aims to embarrass the Government |
in its project of making the island an out |
work OF the Empire. 1t is assured that the |
English Parliament will assent to the |
cession of the island.
Chancellor Won Caprivi has arranged |
with Lord Salisbury to have the German |
flag hoisted on the island in the presence of |
feet commanded by the Duke Of Edin- |
burgh and squadron escorting Emperor |
William. This ceremony will take place |
some time in September. Minister Won |
Boetticher has already been instructed |
to 60 to Heligoland in August to arrange |
for the installation of the German admins
trstion, of which Councillor wermouth has
been appointed provisional chief These /
arrangements, if carried into effect, will |
make Heligoland part of the Empire be-
fore the Reichstag resumes its sittings.
AN INDIscREET OLD MAN.
The official feeling against Prince Bis
marck has been heightened since an inter-
view with him reported in the Frankfort
Journal His friends admit that he has
been indiscreet in his revelation of kuowl.
edge obtained by him while in Office.
His statements that the Emperor's
labor programme as origiAally sketched
was much more extravagant than
was issued and that Bis Majesty supposed
that the programme would tell at the eIee-
tions have incensed Chancellor Won Caprivi
and the other Ministers. and it is considered