The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-02
SCANDALS GRIM SKELETON
KOtze'S Stories About the German
Court Public Property.

Inclination to Drop the Matter-In-
! situations in the Letters That the
Emperor Was Too Intimate With q
/ Countess-rhe Reputation of the
Emperor's Sister Assailed-- Sexual
! Immortality Involved in All the
sScurrilous Stories IndulHed In.
Berlin, July 1.-The scandal caused by
the arrest of the royal chamberlain, i.
Won Kotze, and the rumors of his anony-
nous correspondence with high persons
at court has grown 20 such Dimensions
and has so excited the public curiosity
that the emperor may be forced to CON
vert the secret inquiry into an
open trial. The details of the charges
/ against Herr Kot1e were known at
/ first only to members of the inner court
! circle. They have gradually leaked out,
/ however, as the scandal became the alb
/ sorbing topic in society and the clubs, and
| now are the one theme in every public re-
! sort. The inquiry proceeds so slowly as
/ to give Herr Kotze's supporters good
| chance to assert, with a good show of
truth, that the government wishes to
| hush up the whole affair.
GONE TOO FAR TO BE DROPPED.
Even If the government were inclined
to let the scandal drop the time for such
action is past. Herr Kotze must be tried
and must be acquitted, as mentally un-
sound, or innocent of the charges, or he
must be punished rs the foulest of SLAM
| derers. The process Is called a
/ cOurtmartial, but, in fact. there is
| no duly constituted court of any
| kind. The emperor instructed Gen.
! Bronsart Won Schellendorf the Prussian
| war minister, TO supervise the case with
| the assistance of Privy Counselor Brueg-
! gemann. Three officers, however have
! been chosen to examine witnesses. The
! documents produced by the witnesses so
! far contain great mass OF disgusting ana
! lbelous letters which certainly suggest
the insanity of the writer
SCANDAL ABOUT A COUNTESS.
Some of these communications insinu-
ate that the emperor was too intimate
/ with the Countess Won Hohenau. The
| count is said to have demonstrated with
his wife and warned her that she must
check the emperOr's open partiality to
| her. The countess was induced to treat
the emperor coldly, and when questioned
as to the reason, is said to have In formed
the emperor of her husbands in
terference. The Kotze story continues
| thus: THE emperor, enraged by the
| counts presumption, vowed that he would
have revenge, and soon afterward at q
military review on the Tempelhoefer
field, told the count that he would forth
with be transferred to Hanover, that is,
that he and his wife would be eXiled from
court The count is the son of Prince
AlbreCht of Prussia by a morganetic mar
riage with Miss Rauch, and therefore is a
cousin OF the emperor. His testimony
1 fol 6vr ~
sellor BruegEemann. Just how far it went
is yet to be ascertained.
PRINCESS AssAILED.
The anonymous court censor also as
sailed the reputation of the Princess
Charlotte of Prussia, the 'emperor's sis
ter, and now hereditary princess of Sake
Meiningen. representing her as being ut
terly beyond her husbands control and
guilty of numerous indiscretions. He
lampooned the Princess Victoria Of
SchaumburR-Lipp as fond of low society
He did not even spare the Empress
Frederick, whose plain, uninterestinR and
blameess life in her wifehood, mother
hood and widowhood was supposed to ex-
empt her from all court gos sip.
Finally Prince Alexander of Prussia
now in his 74th year. is accused of the
most disgraceful practices, which are
said to be the result of a weak and per-
verted mind.
| ALL INVOLVE SEXUAL IMMORTALITY
All the charges relate to offenses against
sexual morality. They are curiously
minute in detail-so minute in fact, that,
whether written by scOundrel or mad
man, they must have come from some
man with precise knowledge of persons
at court and their doings. The theory of
Herr Kotze's mental responsibility will
be considered after he shall have
-. h.. TE
the letters. Meantime, small but
strong group at court continues to be-
lieve that he is the scapegoat of GER
tain prince, the Countess of Hohenau's
bitterest enemy, who has been using Herr
Kotzc aud Freiherr Won Schraeder, an
other chamberlain, as the channels of his
reyengefor disappointed hopes. Some of
the offensive letters contain indecent
sketches, very cleverly executed Herr
| Kot7e's friends say that he could not
possibly have done such work as he is
| quite ignorant Of drawing The mystery
attaching to the whole affair is clearing,
| but gradually
THE ANGLo-BELGIUM AGREEMENT.
The Norddeutsche AllRemine Zeitung
denies that the rcarrangcments of the
| Anglo Belgian agreement allows Eng
land TO construct telegraph lines In Ger
man East Africa. The semi-ofieial editor
uulnLdluS lHuI ITtllliti Attll hHOutS VI
Capo Colony applied for such a concession,
| but received fiat refusal This state
ment of the case is partially correct.
When the amended agreement shall be
! published it will be seen that Great
| Britain has obtained the right to free
communication between South Africa and
/ Uganda.
An EDITOR RETTREs.
Privv Counselor DR.. Pindlcr, for nearly
/ thirty years editor Of the Norddeutsche
| ANgemine Leituug, retired from his place
/ yesterday. He guided tho policy OF the
| .ournal through all the stormy days Of
/ the Bismarck regime for half a dozen years
/ was the old chanccllor's editorial mouth
| piece, and when Prince Bismarck fell, le-
| tanned his semi-otiicial relgsions by trim
/ ming his sails to suit the new
regime The United Press correspondent
called upon DR.. Pindler yesterday to
ascertain his reason for retir-
ing In the course Of the
/ interview Dr. Pindler gave some inter
esting views of recent German history
Referring TO Prince Bi5marck's struggle
with the Vatican. he said The
Kulturkampf was for Prince Bismarck
simply as a means 10 an end. He wished 10
overcome the spirit OF states rlPnts and
10 weld the many separate states into one
/ body to be used against his ultramontane
enemies Prince Bismarck never hesi-
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