The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-26
Fastening to a Crisis.
Affairs Becoming So Threaten
ing That Emperor William
Will Hasten on His Home
ward Voyage.
Prospects That After Emperor
Williams Visit to Russia He
and the Gar Will Part on
Hostile Terms.
Other Foreign News Ot Great
Significance Entertain
ingly Told.

Emperor William has announced
that he will return to WilheImshaven
from his trip in Norwegian waters
July 26. Ministers Du Nernois and
Miguel will meet him there. The
Reichsanzeiger recently declared that
the emperor's plans for his trip had
not altered owing to the political sit
| uatiOn, but the facts contradict the
official statement. Arrangements
were made for his voyage to extend a
week longer.
Affairs in the east are hastening to
a crisis, and this caused Emperor
| William to advance the date of his
| conference with the czar. Count Won
Schouvaloff, the Russian ambassador
to Berlin, who is now in St Peters
burg, has sent Chancellor Won Caprivi
a formal intimatiOn that the car will
receive Emperor William August 10.
The great maneuvres, to which En-
peror William has been invited, will
begin on August 7 and last two weeks.
The NOvoe Nremya says that the pc
sitiOn in Armenia and Bulgaria will
remain in statu quo as far as Russian
action is concerned until the imperial
interviews are over. Emperor VIII
liam will probably make a brief visit
to England before starting from Kiel
| for COnstadt.
The original programme of reception
inst. Petersburg was prepared with a
view to the emperor's presence. The
character of the conference, involving
a chance OF the emperors parting on
hostile terms, caused change, and
the Germans empress, although eager
to accompany her husband, will re
main at home.
The opposition of France to the En-
glish agreements abated under the
prospective arrangements, i'm which
the foreign Office aCquiesces. The
French claims to a sphere OF influence
from Senegal to Lake Tchad will be
submitted to a commission on delimi-
tation composed of German, English
and French officials. NJ. Ribot, the
French minister of foreign affairs, OBJ
jeCted to German representation on the
commission, on the ground that the
disputed territories from the Niger to
Lake Tchad did not touch German
interests. Chancellor Won Caprivi and
Lord Salisbury declining thus to admit
to be nugatory an article of the agree
ment dealing with the Anglo-German
trade IN the countries drained by the
Niger, NJ. Rbot was constrained to
assent.
The German chanCellOr's official
memorandum on the agreement is
ready for issue as soon as the English
parliament ratifies the Cession of He'll
goland. II declares that the govern
ment sympathizes with the German
regrets over the apparent extension of
English influence in East Africa. At
the same time it maintains that the
Importance Of Zanzibar is exaggerated
and cannot compare with Heligo-
lands value. Germany has long Gov
eted the island, and there have been
ceaseless appeals made to the govern
| ment to acquire it, as the archives OF
the ChanCellerie show. 1t concludes
with the statement that the conven-
tion is based on n just regard OF the
pretensions and aspiration OF both
countries.
The question of Prince Bismarck s
right to divulge directly or suggestive
iy through Interviews his knowIedge OF
state affairs, acqIljY IIs lie MAS d
Q. /; !; !. J J. ] ! !
minister, will be s's<| 3Ately
upon the emperf>x k5f,ons
appearing ilse, \ + |ztls.
richten TO Sir 81 49, 4 Z.
| ing for a higi1nx 5,l .5IzEI
the press With e}<,Iii< " 4 |Ii &
Prince Bismarck, disclose {s l'&| |ftI ia
the prince to publicly inlplicat0 En-.
press Frederick IN plotting against
him. The ex-empress has just intensi-
fled his anger by warning him that II
the report is true that he is preparing
his memoirs be must publish none OF
her letters or her husbands withn.st
her consent, and intimating iEA actly
that he would be prosecuted il fis Hail-
| ed to comply.
Forthwith tlfe prince selected ffbm
the list OF applicants for an interview
with him the correspondent of he
Dresdener Naohrichten, a paper nsto.
rious for it's hostility ito Empress
Frederick, and accorded him al if'ter-
view which lasted several hours. The
official expectation is that the ember-
or will direct the application TO
Prince Bismarck Of the rescript which
the prince prepared after the Won Ar,
nim trial, ordering the ministers oi
state to take an oath not to publish
4 ANYTHING rplatinp tp ~ ate business
without permission from the soyer.
eign Other provisions of the rescript
give validity to the actions of En-.
press Frederick.
At short meeting of Prince Alex.
ander of Batteaburg and Prince Fer.
dinand OF Bulgaria at Eyer, Bohemia,
| Prince Ferdinand asked for an explicit
assurance that Prince Alexander
would not return to Bulgaria He
also asked what meaning was to be
attached To his adoption of Mai. Pan.
itza's child He said he felt it to be
useless TO continue his struggle 10
maintain himself as ruler of Sofia II
Prince Alexander was TO be his rival.
Prince Alexander protested that he
had no ambition TO return to Bulga-
ria. Panitza's boy, he explained, was
his godson, and the adoption of the
boy had nothing to do with politics
He advised Prince Ferdinand TO re-
turn to his post and govern constitu-
tioGally, and he promised that IL war
| should break out he would serve in
the Bulgarian army i'm any capacity.
The report first published by the
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