Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17
KAISER'S SAGACITY.
Serious Defects Discovered in
Military Affairs
OF THE RHINE PROVINCES.
On the Other Hand He Makes Serious
Political Blunder and Seeks to
Cover it Up-The Berlin
Art Exhibit.
Special to the Gazette.

| Special to the Gazette.
| LONDON, May 16.-A Berlin dispatch
! says that kaiser, in his tour of the Rhine
| provinces, discovered serious defects OF
military administration which caused him
| grave anxiety, and which he has directed
| the war office to remedy. Commanding
officers were surprised at the thoroughness
which kaiser showed in the investiga
ton Of the most minute details b1
the condition Of the men, Their
! treatment and the armament. In several
instances it was found that contractors had
failed to provide supplies as agreed upon.
In all such cases the kaiser directed prompt
investigation, and if found justified, the
prosecution Of responsible parties.
The kaiser has caused to be printed and
distributed among the sovereign provinces
of Germany official copies of his speech at
Dusssl Dorf, in which the works: II alone
am master in Germany are omitted, and
an almost meaningless sentence substi-
tuted.
Members of the diplomatic corps have
also been favored with copies of the
amended address.
This is taken as showing that the first
time since mounting the throne the kaiser
appreciates and virtually admits that he
has made political blunder in his rash as
sertion of autOcratic authority.
1t is significant in this connection that
graduated on his election for the Geste-
munde by prime ministers of Lippe and of
Mecklenburg Schwerin.
The kaiser has also given it to be under
stood through one of his semi-official
mouth pieces that his recent speeches must
be taken with qualification; that while he
desires peace he means to be prepared for
war, and that he is watching the attitude
of both Russia and France. -
Still more significant is the utterance at
tributed to De Boettischer, and perhaps re-
f1ecting the views of his master, that
the Rothschild quarrel may be
only pretext on the part of
Russia for accumulation of funds for
Russia preparatory to warlike movement
in the direction of the Dobrudscha Certain
it is that Russia now has total of nearly
four hundred thousand men within easy
reach of that Roumanian province, across
which is the road to Stambul and Bulgaria.
Americans have reason to be proud of
German criticisms on their share in the
Berlin international art exhibition. Amer
lean artists in Paris did not feel themselves
bound by the French resolution to abstain
from taking part, and the display which
they made excites admiration and also sur
prise among those who had crude notions
about the development of Western art.
The British section takes the lead, the
leading artists of London having made it a
Ilaller OF personal interest 10 RrdtlIy En-
press Frederick and console her for the
rebuff received in Paris.
The Austro-Hungarian department is well
led by Munckascy, and the Spanish and
Italian sections are very attractive
Germans are smiling grimly at the promi-
nent French artists who, having refused to
honor the Berlin exhibition, have sent their
pictures to Moscow just in time for the
most barbarous exhibition Of Russian in
tolerance witnessed in this century.
1t is said that the scenes of suffering
and misery among the Jews at Moscow
have so disguised foreign visitors to the
exhibition that they have nearly all gone
home again. without waiting to look at
the pictures. The statement from
visitors TO Moscow every day
tell stories of cruelty-in some
instances young children We're taken from
their parents because their names were not
written in the parents passport. The
wretched Jews were pictures of despair as
they were led like criminals in chains
through the streets, women and
children, however, being spared the
indignity of letters The prisons
are crowded with Jews waiting deportation,
and the prisoners would starve but for the
kindness of Christians and other Jews, who
bring them bread.
1t is significant that this persecution,
said by Chief Rabbi Adler to be the -
est since the days of Esther, bea1n ~
first day of the Passover.~
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