The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-12
Emperor Wilhelm About to Visit
King Oscar of Sweden
Norway.
TRIPLE ALLIANCE TREMBLEs.
DR.. Koch Investigates and Says There
Is No ASiatic Cholera in
Dsntzig.

BERLIN, GERMANY, July lit is now
definitely settled that General Bronsart
Won Schellendorf, Minister of War, will
retire from the Ministry soon after the
return of the Emperor from his present
trip to the Nordland. After having twice
offered his resignation, General Schellen-
dorf has finally succeeded in obtaining the
assent of the Emperor to his retirement
from office.
1t is reported that the Kaiser has found
q suitable successor to the present Minis
ter OF War in General Funck, who is at
present commander of the fourteenth
division of the German army, with head
quarters at Dusseldorf.
In official circles it is expected that
other official changes will accompany the
retirement of General Schellendorf, and
great deal of speculation is being INDUCED
in as to their nature and extent. Prince
Won Hohenlohe, the Imperial Chancellor,
before starting on his holiday trip to his
schloss at Ausse, in Austria, made no con-
cealment in private conversation with his
intimates of his readiness to retire from
the CHARACTERISTIC when the Emperor
would permit him to do so, and rumor
also mentions Freiherr Marschal Won
Bieberstein, Minister OF Foreign Affairs,
and DR.. Won Boetticher, President of
the Council of Ministers, Minister OF State
and Imperial Secretary of State for the In
terror, as among those who are about to
lay down the cares of official life.
1t is improbable, however, that there is
any truth in these rumors unless the
Kaiser is determined upon an entire
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alteration of the general policy of the
general government.
1t is notable fact that in all the current
political gossip in regard to the Cabinet
changes the name of DIR. MIGUEL. Prussian
Minister of Finance, is not mentioned,
whereas few months ago ne of all the
other members was believed to have the
slightest hold upon his Office.
Everybody now accepts it as fact that
his position is secured, and il is probable
that the Emperor will confine his changes
in the Ministry to the retirement of Prince
HohenIohe and General Schellendorf. The
retreat of the latter is signal triumph
for the court generals, especially General
Won Hahnke, chief of the Emperor's mill
tary cabinet, whose unyielding opposition
to the scheme of reform IN the procedure
in military trials has been a thorn in the
side OF General Schellendorf, for many q
day.
The Hamburger Nachrichten, the organ
of Prince Bismarck, publishes an article,
plainly bearing the marks of having been
dictated by the ex-Chancelor, upon the
subject of Italy's position in the Dreibund,
which Is exciting widespread discussion.
The article points out that the maintenance
of relations between Austria and Italy is
the chief source of anxiety to Germany
Just now, for the reason that If Italy with
draws from the triple alliance the military
resources of Austria will be so restricted
by the necessity for guarding the Italian
,rontier that she will be unable to fulfill
1her contract to help Germany with the
whole of her army.
The Austrian alliance, the article adds,
! would thus lose so much of its worth to
Germany as to cause it to become question
able whether it would be of any value
whatever as thing to be relied upon.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has
arranged to pay visit to King Charles OF
Roumania at Bucharest in Septem Der.
| The event will be one of high state i'm
! portance, as q demonstration In response
| to the formation of the League of Balkan
States, under the control of Russia.
The Emperor will meet Oscar of Sweden
| Norway, at Drontheim in Norway on July
/
with her two eldest sons, Crown Prince
] William and Prince Eitel Frederick, yes
terday. Her Majesty and the Princes will
reside at the schloss in Wilhelmsruhe dur
| ing the absence of the Kaiser on his Nord-
| land trip.
Prince Henry of Prussia, brother OF the
Emperor, and his wife, Princess Irene, are
aging at their new estate in Himmel-
mark. Princess Irene is in delicate con-
dition and her accouchment is expected
TO occur. very soon.
The Emperor will send Prince Henry to
London TO represent him at the royal
wedding of Prince Charles of Denmark
and Princess Maud of Wales, which will
take place on July %.
DR.. Koch went to Dantzeig on Wednes-
day to investigate the case of cholera
! which was reported by the health authori-
ties OF that city to be one of the genuine
| Asiatic type. DR.. Koch denies that it is
Asiatic cholera. although in his examina.
ton the comma bacciIeus was detected
The case, he decides, is traceable to i'm