The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-01

cult and heavy task to make the necessary
roads for the movement of the troops,
especially to provide ways for cavalry
marches and for the advance of the artil-
lery.
The road called Strethefen Damn, run
ming from Bagemuhl to Strengthen, mas
been widened to admit the passage OF
single horseman, but must be further eA-
tended to width to let artillery across.
The Stettin Pasewalk railway line crosses
at Lockwitz, where the most interesting
scenes OF the maneuvers will take place.
The charges recently made by the Etolle
Beige, the organ of the Congo government,
against the German authorities and traders
in the Congo region of assisting In the sale
of arms to the Arabs, met with an lndlg-
nant denial by the Cologne Gazette. This
denial ELECTED reply from the Etoile
Beige, which declared that proof existed
that an English dealer named Stokes had
sold all his stock of arms and other goods
throughout the German possessions in
Africa, the officers of which territory had
imposed heavy duty upon the guns, etc.
German agents worked with Stokes, who,
the Etoile Beige says, met his just fate.
death. After making an explicit and en-
phatic denial of the assertions that the
German officials were implicated in the
sale OF arms to Arab slave-traders, the Ga
zette proceeds to caution the Belgians
against their summary execution OF white
men, who ought to be tried in court of
justice instead of being left to the mercy
of high handed official.
The Gazette suggests that the Congo
officials executed Stokes because he was
their greatest competitor in the ivory
trade, and adds that Germany's interest in
the matter is increased by the fact that
the Congo State seeks to extend its bound
aries to the northeast and declares that it
is extremely doubtful whether or not it has
right TO the coveted territory. The
Congo State, the Gazette says, owes its ex
istence to the good will of the powers and
that good will it cannot dispense with now.
The significance of the utterances of the
North German Gazette and Cologne Ga
zette are due to indications of the rap
prochement of England and Germany in
common policy in regard to the inter-
land against France and Belgium.
The Bavarian Minister of Justice has in
formed the Bavarian legation in Berlin
that the case OF Louis Stern of New York,
who was recently arrested at Kissingen for
an alleged insult to Baron Won Thuengen,
the Deputy Commissioner at the Spa, has
been referred to the chief court, sitting at
Bamberg, for consideration on it's merits.
The clemency of the Prince Regent cannot
be exercised in the case until the court has
made report.
Preparations for the celebration of Sedan
day in Berlin are proceeding with fegerish
anxiety. The municipal authorities have
voted the sum of $4,000 marks to be de-
voted to dec Grating and Illuminating the
Schloss, which promises to present the
grandest spectacle of the kind the capital
has ever seen. All of the Government and
municipal buildings will be adorned with
designs in electric, gas and other lights,
which thousands of workmen are busily
engaged in arranging to day.
Crowds of people throng the streets,
viewing the progress of the decorations,
the center of attraction being the Schloss.
The appeal of Burgomaster Zelers to the in
habitants of Berlin to decorate their houses
with flags, etc., has been responded to
everywhere, with the result that the houses
upon miles and miles of streets are dis
playing flags and garlands. Most of the
houses also have some form of illumina-
ton, bengal lights and gas being supplied
through the municipal authorities to in
habitants who were unable to buy them.