Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-20

mueh-mooted question of Bulgarian affairs
will come up. Bismarck is attempting to
implicate the Empress Frederick as plotting
against him. An effort will be made to pre-
vent his using State secrets in his forth
coming memoirs French opposition to the
Anglo-German agreement is being with
drawn.
COPYRIGHT, 1890, BY THE NEW YORK AssocIArED
PREss.l
BERLIN, July 19-Tbe question Of
Prince Bismarek's right to divulge directly
or suggestively through interviews his
knowledge of State affairs acquired while
he was Minister, will be decided imme-
diately upon the Emperor's return. A1Iu-
sions appearing in the Hamburger Mach
rtchteD to Sir r. Morier, as again acting for
higher parsonage in supplying the press
with elements to attack Prince Bismarck,
disclose a desire of the Prince to
publicly implicate Empress Frederick ia
plotting against him. The ex-Empress has
just intensified his anger by warning him
that If the report is true that he is preparing
his memoirs, he must publish none of her
letters of her husbands without her consent,
and intimating indirectly that he would be
prosecuted if he failed to comply. Forth
with the Prince selected from the list of ap-
plicants for an interview with him the cor
respondent of the Dresdener Ndchrichten,
paper notorious for its hostility to Empress
Frederick, and accorded him an interview
which lasted several hours.
WILL SEAL THE OLD MANS MOUTH.
The official expectation is that the En-
peror will direct the application TO Prince
Bismarck of the rescript which the Prince
prepared after the Won Arnim trial, order
ing the Ministers of State to take an oath
not to publish anything relating to State
business without permission from the Sow
ereign. Other provisions of the rescript
give validity to the actions of Empress
Frederick.
At secret meeting of Prince Alexander
Of Battenberg and Prince Ferdinand of Bull
garia at Eyer, in Bohemia, Prince Ferdf-
nand asked for an explicit assurance that
Prince Alexander would not return to Bull
garia. He also asked what meaning was to
be attached to his adoption of Major
Panitza's child He said he felt it to be
useless to continue his struggles to
maintain himself as ruler at Sofia if Prince
Alexander was to be his rival. Prince
Alexander protested that he had no ambi-
ton to return to Bulgaria. Panitzas' boy,
he explained, was his godson, and the adop-
ton of the boy had nothing to do with
politics. He advised Prince Ferdinand to
return to his post and govern eonstitu-
tionally, and he promised that if war should
break out he would serve in the Bulgarian
army in any capacity.
AFFAIRS IN THE EAST AT A CRISIS.
Emperor William has announced that he
will return to Wilhelmshaven from his trip
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Du Vernois and Miguel will meet him
theretfThe ReichzdnSeiger last night declared
that the Emperor's plans for his trip had not
been altered owing to ths political stua-
tion, but the facts contradict the official
statement. Arrangements were made for
his voyage to extend a week longer. Affairs
in the East are Fastening to a crisis, and
this caused Emperor William to advance
the date of his conference with the Gar.
Count Won Sehouvalof, the Russian Am
bassador to Berlin, who is now in st. Peters
burg, has sent Chancellor Won Caprivi
formal intimation that the Gar will receive
Emperor William on August 10. The
great maneuvers to which Emperor Will
lam has been invited will begin on August
and last for two weeks.
RESULT OF THE INTERVIEWS.
The NoUoe Tremya says that the position
in Armenia and Bulgaria will remain in
statu quo, as far as Russian action is'con-
cerned, until the imperial interviews are
over. Emperor William will probably
make brief visit to England before start
ing from Kiel for Cronstadt.
The original programme of reception in
st. 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 German Empress, although
eager to accompany her husband, will re-
main at home.
The opposition of France to the English
agreements abates under the prospective ar
rangements, in which the foreign Office here
acquiesces. The French claims TO sphere
of influence from Senegal to Lake Tchad
will be submitted to Commission on De-,
limitation, composed of German, English
and French officials.
OBJECT TO GERMAN REPRESENTATION.
NJ Ribot, the French Minister of For
eign Affairs, objected to German represen-
tation on the commission, on the ground
that the disputed territories from the Niger
to Lake Tchad did not touch German inter-
ests, Chancellor Won Caprivi and Lord
Salisbury declining thus to admit to be
nugatory an article of the agreement deal
ing with the Anglo-Gern1an trade in the
countries drained by the Niger, NJ. Ribot
was constrained to assent.
The German Chancellor's official memoir
andum on the agreement is ready for issue
as soon as the English Parliament ratifes
the cession of Heligoland. 1t declares that
the Government sympathizes with the
German regrets over the apparent extension
of English influence in East Africa. At
the same time it maintains that the i'm
portance of Zanzibar is exaggerated
and cannot compare with Heligoland's
value. Germany has long coveted the
island, and there have been eeaseless ap-
peals made to the Government to acquire it,
the archists of the Chaneellory. 1t con-
cludes with the statement that the conven-
tion is based on just regard of the preten-
sions and aspirations of both countries.
WITHHOLDING THE PORK PROHIBITION.
The report first published by the Ham,
burg correspondent to the effect that Minis
ter Lucius, in receiving a deputation on the
traffic in port through Holland, expressed
an intention to rescind the prohibition on
pork in October appears in all the papers.
Mr.. Phelps, the United States Minister,
has seen Herr Lueius, who states that the
Government is still unwilling to take such
a step.
Professor Virchow, replying to the pro-
test of French physician against French
men taking part in the Berlin Medical
Congress, criticises such Chauvinism as
morbid condition of which q cruel expert
ence appears not to have cured France.
Medical men, he says, ought to be ami
mated by sentiments Of mutual esteem.
A bill which is being prepared for the
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