The herald., 1893-10-02
No improvement in the Iron
Princes Condition.
He Is Too Ill to Be Removed to
Friedrichsruhe.
War Clouds Gathering Thick and
Fast in Europe.
Trouble Likely to Result from the Visit
of the Russian Squadron to
Toulon-Germany's New
War Ships.
By the Associated Press.


BERLIN, Oct. 1.-The newspapers here
today publish less favorable reports re-
garding Prince Bismarck's health.
1t was the intention OF the physicians
to remove him to his home at Fried
richsruhe yesterday, butSthe prince was
not ia a condition to make the journey.
The prospect OF reconciliation between
the ex-chancellor and sthe emperor
grows elighter every day. ~
GATHERING WAR CLOUDS.
1t 10 claimed that the military attaches
of the drsibund are very much shown
the cold shoulder by French officers,
and as a retaliatory measure the mill
tary authorities here propose to with
draw all German military attaches from
France, in order to force the French
govern ment to Withdraw its military
attache, from Germany, Austria and
Italy, who they claim are acting as
spies. There are people. however, who
claim that the agitation is the work OF
the military party in Germany who an
ticirateSopposition in parliament to the
demand which will be made for an in
creaae in the army and navy expendi-
tures.
THE ARMING LEGIoNs.
In the meanwhile the arming OF the
legions of Europe continues, and the
time of general confagration seems to
be approaching more rapidly day by
day. In fact there are people here who
hint that there may be serious riots in
Paris and elsewhere in France. upon the
occasion of the visit of the Russian feet
to Toulon, for it is claimed the Fire
cracker party" in France ie almost GER
tain to make the Russian vieit the ocea-
sion for a demonstration against the
Germans and Italians, not to mention
the English, against which country the
extra-demonstratiye class OF French
men claim to have well-founded
cause for resentment. The Russian
government has anticipated these
possible riotous demonstrations Tor
some time past and it is with
the object OF trying to prevent them
that the car and his ambassador in
Paris has been throwing cold water upon
ipfammatory France and warning Pres
ident Carnot and his advisers against
the danger of being too demonstrative.
However, all the warning in the world
will not prevent the French from max
ing tremendous fuss over the Russian
visit, and no amount of argument will
convince the French people as whole
that the visit of the Russian fleet to
Toulon is only return visit out of COM
mon courtesy for the visit OF the French
feet to Cronetadt.
DEFECT IN WARsHIPS.
The recent agitation in England in
regard to tie defects found in British
warships, brought on mainly by the
disaster to the Victoria, has had Its
echo here. 1t has been suggested that
the British feet would be more strength
ened by the addition OF large numbers
of fast cruisers with powerful rams, and
vessels OF q type smaller and less ex-
pensive than the monster battleships,
which seems to find 30 much favor with
British ship builders. In this country
the reported increase in the naval esti-
mate caused much dissatisfaction
among the Radicals and Liberals, who
claim Germany does not need a strong
navy or addition to the army. The
ship building experts Of Germany fol-
lowed closely the criticism made in
England upon the British warship
which recently met with disaster and
the German experts insist that the
present type of German warships is es-
pecially unsuited to Germany. 1t is
more than likely that the government
will meet with serious opposition in car
rying out Emperor Williams project to
increase the strength of the German
navy.