The record-union., 1896-05-04
Rumors of Discussions Among the
Ministers.
No Attention Will be Paid to Cham
berlain'S Utterances-The Govern
ment Has All Along Known the
True State of Affairs in the Trans
vaal-TrOops to be Sent to German
South Africa = ambassador Uhl
Granted an Audience.

BERLIN, May 3.-The ceremonies
which took place at the Berlin Academy
OF Arts yesterday upon the occasion OF
the bi-centennial celebration of the
founding of that institution possessed
exceptional interest from the presence
CT so many art celebrities. The affair,
too, was in marked contrast as far. as
order was concerned, to the opening of
rhe Industrial Exhibition on Friday,
when, despite all of the efforts of the
police the carriages Of the Ministers,
State functionarieS, ambassadors, Gen :
erals and other persons of rank and III
lie who had been invited to be present
were so mixed up and retarded in their
progress that many guests, including
LII. Won Boettich, President of the Coun- :
Gil of Ministers, and President Thielen,
left their vehicles and walked through
the crowd. The throng inside the exhi-
bition buildings, though they were COM
posed of the better class of Berliners
and maintained a, fair degree of order
until after the imperial party arrived,
gave a startling exhibition OF boorish-
ness the moment the Emperor and his
party appeared. As soon as his majesty
entered the crowd rushed like an i'm
mense flock of sheep to secure places
behind the imperial cortege, without
the slightest regard fer the comfort or
convenience Of the imperial circle. The
function at the Academy of Arts on the
other hand was stately and well regu-
lated affair and seemed to please the
Emperor and Empress greatly.
Both Of their ma5esties, after the
brief ceremony, conversed freely with
the political and artistic personage5
present. The Emperor especially sought
out Herr Won Puttkamer, Dr. MIGUEL.
Erussian Minister of Finance, and the
Italian and Russian ambassadors, and
engaged each of them in converse ton
fol some time, while he passed Baron
Marschal Won Bieberstein, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, without even shaking
hands with him. This act on the part
Cf the Emperor may not have had any
particular meaning, but in view of the
present period of recuTrent crisis it ap-
peared as though he had purposely
slighted the Minister and is regarded as
confirming many of the rulnors which
have been in circulation of late that the
dissensions in the Ministry have gone
so far as to involve the Emperor in the
differences alleged to exist
Apropos of these rumors, Baron Won
Berlepsch, Minister Cf Commerce. who
was reported on Thursday as being
! about to resign in consequence of his
discomfort at the failure of his meas
ufeS IN the RelchStag, toasted The EN-
Feror at the exhibition banquet in
terms and style which could have been
employed only by q thoroughly con-
tented Minister, and at the same ban
quet Herr Eugene Wolff, the German
explorer, agreeably disturbed the pla-
cldlty of the official oratory by sud
denly calling for cheers for Prince Bis
marck. Most of those present rose to
their feet and cheered Justify, after
winch they sang 'DeutscheIand Uber
Allies" and resumed their seats amid
another burst of cheering.
The Industrial Exhibition opened in a
better state of preparation than was
expected, in view of the difficulties the
managers had to put it through owing
to the arbitrary manner of the work.
men. Vast strides had been made to-
ward getting things into a state of or
der within the last week and the general
opinion is that the exhibition will be-
come popular success and that those
who have seen the great international
exhibitions held in Europe and America
can come to Berlin with the assurance
that they Will see something new.
The latest advices direct from Pre-
toria, the capital of the South African
RanIJhllp
sion that there would be war between
the Transvaal and England. The feel
ing here is that President Kruger $
diplomacy has rendered England DOW
erhess to trespass upon the independ-
ence of the Beers without outraging the
opinion of the world. DR. w. J. Leyds.
the Secretary of State of the Transyaa1
who recently spent some moiths in
Germany, viii soon send an imp6rtant
diplomat TO Pretoria, and this will GER
ta!nly be done, too, without asking the
opinion of England The utterances. of
the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain.
Secretary of State for Colonies. agafnst
foreign Intervention in the Tranfsva a i
have made no impression here and vii.
not in the slightest degree affect Ger
many's action. The revelations which
EaVe just been made in Pretoria show
ing the duplicity Of the English officials
may have startled the German public.
but they have not surprised the Ger
man Government. whose communica-
items from Pretoria have kept the Ger
man Foreign Office advised of even
more than President krueger has as
yet chosen to publish. The unanimous
voice Of the press strongly condemns
Mir. Chamberlain want of tact and the
clumsy and arrogant style of his treat
ment OF President Kruger, whom
Prince Bismarck described as the most
astute diplomat he had ever met The
remission by President Kruger of the
sentences OF death pronounced upon
Ehe leaders of the johannesburg Reform
Committee has only found approval
here as having been in the interest OF
prudence.
The .Nossische Zeitung" says: "Nei-
ther Great Britain nor the Chartered
South African Company had any right
to expect that the lives Of the con-
Gemned men would be spared and the
convicts ought not to be pardoned.