The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-18
ITSALSA.EAND LORRAINE.
Soon 70 Cease as a COMPOUND iCQui-
SitiOl Of The PruSSiln Arms.

20 PruEsta-Both TO be Forever Ger
-ManuverinR of Three Army
Corps, One of Which Pontoons and
Crosses the Rhine in Three Hours
Closing Days of the Enperor's Re
r,arkable Tour-After Another Grand
military Review He win Return to
Berlin.
Berlin. Sept 17.-Before leaving Stutt-
CART, on Saturday evening, Emperor Will
lam had a long conference with Chancel-
lor Won Caprivi The subject is said to
have been the projected ASSN ilation Of
AIsace-Lorraine with the rest Of the en-
MIRO. The Franfort Gazette saws the en-
peror's purpose is no longer limited to the
mere abolition of exceptional laws. He
desires now to have Alsaee in
corporated in the grand duchy
OF Baden, whose people have
almost the same diet, customs and even
traditions with the Alsatians. Lorraine
will be treated somewhat differently. It
is inhabilatad by people of French ten
denotes and language and has little in
common with any German state It,
therefore, will be annexed to Prussia, al
though its affairs will be administered by
a special department situated probably in
Berlin.
This plan originated with Caprivi
"To BE FOREVER GERMAN"
It is agreeable to the emperor, who
wishes to mark his sojourn in the PROV
inccs by some act signifying that Ger
many has taken definite possession of the
territory, despite all hopes Of the French
TO the contrary,
A crowd of Germany's great men gath
cred at the station at Stuttgart to say
gOOd-Oy to the emperor. Besides the
King of Wurtemburg, Chancellor Won
Caprivi and Gen. Haezler there were
present some fifty Of the highestQf1cer in
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteen tn
army corps, which have made up the
armies name uvering around Metz and in
Baden and Wrtemburg.
PoNTooN PRACTICE ON THE RHINE.
IN talking with these officers, the en-
peror spoke critically of several incidents
Of the maneuvers. He referred especially
to the pontoon operations on the Rhine.
The bridging of the river seemed to have
struck the imperial imagination with pc
Culiar force, and he dWelt at length on
the Importance of this class of engineer
ing. He directed that the passage of the
river be made again in the same manner
aud on the same scale, and that an exact
statement of the time required for the
work be sent him. The opinions Of the
military experts present when the bridge
was thrown across the Rhine agree that
the Fourteenth corps performed the task
with admirabl quickness and skill. In
the fleet used there were forty wooden
and hfty-two galvanized iron pontoons.
PRETTY QUICK BRIDGING.
AT point where the stream runs six
miles an hour and is $50 yards wide, the
boats We're placed in exactly two hours.
From beginning to end there was not
hitch in the work. In the next three
hours the whole Fourteenth corps
marched across.
The Hungarian maneuvers near Guens
which the emperor had gone to attend
Will hardly present anything of equal in
terest, although some pontoon practice ON
small scale will be tried there also An
unusually large suite accompanies the
emperor on his journey to Guens. Be
sides Gems Won Hahke, Won Sclieafen
and Won PIessen, there are with him Dr.
Leuthold, surgeon-general; Col Won Viii
lalume, former military attache in St
petersburg; DR.. Lucanus, privy councillor,
with three secretaries; Baron Kidolen
Wechter Of the foreign Office, with two
secretaries, and Prince Won Reuss, Ger
man ambassador in Vienna. Count Kali
noky Acknowledgements minister of for
elgn affairs, will accompany him to Guens.
where the whole Hungarian ministry,
under Premier Alexander Wekerle. will
Join him and his chiefs.
WHAT is IT ALL ABOUT?
Everybody is asking, what does this
great cOncourse of the highest officials
up2ul' IT iC iOtauH ad ,opraltr to ,l1
the impressiyeness of the greatest ma
neuvers ever held, and it is the prelude to
some startling political doenuement."Th The
King Of SaXony and Prince Leopold of
Bavaria will arrive at Guens before the
emperor. The little town will be crowded
with royalty, and has prepared for the
honor with great quantities of fireworks.
Nnlle occupied by the emperor, kings and
princes, 1t will be Illuminated every
night.
The maneuyers really began yesterday.
When the outpOsts of Guens marched out
10 meet the army advancing on the Ba-
uen0urg train. The armies will operate
partly IN Hungary, Styria and Lower
austria. Their movements will cover an
immense area, such as was not required
even for the famous Russian maneuvers
uear HoWna several years ago.
~ MUCH CONFUSION OF TONGUES.
~ ANC4CHSlGIleE, organ OF Gn6 Austrian
MiIJary predicts that great confusion
VIII arise from the extraordinary concess-
ION TO hungarian prejudice; that all
s,oops engaged in the maneuvtrs, Austri-
On concluded, must be directed in the
magyar language. AS the second and
oLlTd army corps are exclusively German,
ana are otticered by men ignorant of the
hungarian language, the imperial re-
sScCilPt If observed, win render imposs-
oOIe nalf the operations planned. Emper-
vi william will remain at Guens until
thursday, when ne will go to Mehas to
T VGnI' From Mehas he will proceed to
stIha, which he will leave in time to
teGCh Berlin on September 20.
&, me me naval maneuvers now in progress
III .he Baltic viii end on September %,
"Ivu an attack on Kiel The maneuver
Ssd!lsJ this fortified fort will be con-
SSuCyeQ by Admiral Won Goltz aboard the
uossiup Mars. Two squadrons, the
S.I9HsesJ fleet Germany has ever collected
n ,Ter one command, will be combined to
u'aAe The attack.
'AoPLE HAUNTED BY FEAR OF WAR
non, lne Italian minister of public works,
- panied by two engineers Of his de-
4 IIr silehJ' mas visited Copenhagen forithe
TrI--@ technical purpose, as he says, of
vcs.-i mig the Danish system of towing
Gu Their system is regarded as so
il l1 l.LJ mat he shall try to introduce
era1 ms explanation was ignored b. sew
"I udIleS which Sprpad renorts that the