The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-11
MIMIC WARFARE.
German ManeuversDraW-
ing to a Close.
DIPLOMACY is INACTIVE.
Absent From Their
Posts-Opinion on the Russians
Visit to France.

BERLIN. Sept 1o.-The imperial func-
tons at Metz ended with the officers ban
ouet last evening.
Last evening great masses of troops,
com prising the Sixteenth and Eighth
army corps and the Fifth Bayarian Dlvis-
ion, strong army even by themselves,
crowded into the town TO celebrate with
general merrymaking the conclusion OF the
weeks fatiRuing work.
Emperor William Will attend the next
msneuvers of the Fifteenth and Four
teenth army CORDS. The Fifteenth Army
Corps, which was reviewed in Strassbourg
yesterday, will begin tomorrow its march
northward along The left bank of the
Rhine. Monday or Tuesday night its van
guard will reach a point TO the
southwest of Carlsruhe and there will
oppose an attempt of the Fourteenth Corps
to cross the river. This operation is re-
garded with special interest by the EN-
peror, as it involves the question of getting
the German armies across the Rhine in the
next war with France. Wednesday the
Fourteenth Corps will fight final battle
near Hagenau.
The Wurtemberg maneuvers will open
on Saturday in the neighborhood of Lud-
wigsburg. The King of Saxony, the
Emperor's closest adviser in military mat.
ters, has returned to Dresden, but the
Italian Crown Prince, the Grand Duke
of Baden and most OF the other Princes
who went to the Rhine with the Emperor
will remain in the field until the opera
tIons in the west of Germany shall be over.
From his own sham battlefield the En-
peror will go TO Hungary. where he will
observe the maneuvers of Emperor Franz
JOseph's soldiers.
All these movements of armies over the
vast areas of Central Europe, Emperor
Williams declaration at Metz that
the German sword would keep
Alsace-Lorraine German and the CON-
ing visit of the Russian feet at
TouloD, have tended toward raising
language of the German dailies and the
unusual crop of canards in the Paris
press, nothing indicates that international
relations will be strained to the breaking
point.
GHerbette. the French Embassador to
Germany, came back TO the embassy for
few days and then went away on Wednes-
day on holiday leave.
SiRuOI heeSila0, LDe 1Ialan En- DaSsa0Or
70 France. semaiBs absent from his post,
aud Count Won Muenster. who represents
Emperor William in Paris, is still at his
country seat in Hanover. Diplomacy
everywhere is inactive, despite the general
pugnacity of the press.
Official opinion in Berlin attaches little
significance to the prospective visit of the
Russian squadron to Toulon harbor. Even
the signs that Russia plans to establish
station for fifteen or twenty men-of-w war in
the Mediterranean excite no fears.
These plans are regarded as idle, for
Russia cannot obtain the concession of
nava port from any country on the Med
iterranean, not even from Montenegro,
without war with the maritime powers.
probably including England.
The most Russia can count on will be
the use of some French ports. This, how
ever. she now enjoys to a limited extent.
and even with a few more privileges she
would not be able to weigh down the bal
ances against the Triple Alliance and its
possible oackeT-England.