The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-09-16
LOOKED LIKE WAR.
Did the Military Maneuvers Of abe Ger
man Army.


man Army.
Berlin. September 15.-The military ex-
perts who have just returned from partici-
patton in the annual maneuvers at Stettin,
are unanimous in their praise OF the mas
terly generalship of Count Won Waldersee,
who reversed the whole programme ana
snatched unforeseen advantages from the
kaiser himself. The manner i'm which he
conducted his part of the operation mas
confirmed the opinion that he will be the
one who will guide the German armies in
the next European war in which Germany
shall be a combatant. He is almost the
equal of the late Won MOltke, and in respect
of dash and energy is second to no general
that Germany has ever had. In regard to
the fighting qualities of the German troops
the notions formed by the various experts
and correspondents differ somewhat, but in
the main are favorable. One correspondent
During the climbing of the slopes for an
assault the men dropped from the effects
of the heat as though they had been shot,
and the army doctors rode around among
them and administered reviving cordials
to them. The sanitary corps unfastened the
heavy knapsacks from the fallen men and
assisted them to rise to their feet. The
men were always full of grit and moved
forward as they We're able.
The Men Stood 1t Well.
The correspondent of The United Press,
WHO WAS present. throughout the I1dneuNeTS
contends that the men stood the hardships
imposed upon them with wonderful forti-
tude. and without any show of fatigue
worth mentioning. 1t is true some of them
broke down and lay by the roadside but
these men comprised only few hundred of
the 10000. OF much more serious import
ance was the fault of the horses under I'M
due eXertions. The cavalry became COM
pletely played out. and the horses of the
balloon detachment We're so overworked
that sometimes not even the severest whip
Ping sufiiced to get them up hill. The
weight of the gas reservoir also proved too
great a strain Tor the horses and these
show the necessity for radical reform of
the military material
Rations Were Slim.
There was a great deal of discomfort,
however. with the management of the COM
missariat. Numbers of the men complain
ed that they had nothing to eat for a whole
day except a slice of bread.
Officers and men alike were sometimes
50 fatigued that they preferred to go to
sleep than to lay awake and await the
arrival of food
The chief commissary received decora-
ton, after which he was highly elated
but the other officers of the cOmmissariat
were left to indulge in volumes of bad
language, provoked by the clamors of the
hungry men. The officers contend, how
for not getting more food than they did.
and ascribe all their privations in that re-
spect to their perversity.
Before the kaiser and Emperor Francis
Joseph of Austria parted the new Austrian
cabinet was eXhaustively discussed by
them. The change in the ministry does
not in the least concern the political situa-
ton affect the driebund, but the fact
that it practically submerges the Austro-
German group has given a twnge in Berlin,
especially to the conservatives. Practical
~. Count Badeni enters office without a
programme. Austrian Poles, with anti
democratic leanings, constitute a majority
of the cabinet, so that there is not the
slightest chance Of a popular extension of
the franchise nor indeed. of any liberal
reforms. There is no reason. therefore,
why the German conservatives should not
welcome the Badeni ministry and probably
the Austro-Cerman group viii soon decide
to accept Badeni.
King Alexander of Servia has approached
the family of the grand duke Of Hesse ON
the subject of arranging for his marriage
to Princess Sybyllo. of Ilcsse. and it is un-
derstood that his representations have been
declined and he has applied to the Princess
Dolgorouk as the morganatic widow OF
car Alexander Ill OF Russia, who has
TWO unmarried daughters, the Processes
Olga and Catherine, aged respectively
twenty-one and seventeen years.
Rifles for Cuba.
The Spanish government has ordered co.
900 AIanser rifles for the use of the govern
ment troops in Cuba. The arms have been
ordered from the Lowe gun works in Eng
land.