The San Francisco call., 1896-07-06
The Emperor's Unusual Orders
on Leaving for His North
Sea Tour.
WIRES TO BE KEPT WORKING
Sparks Flying in So Many Directions
That Magazine May Be
Exploded.

peror, before starting on his months tour
of the North Sea on July 1, gave orders
which are unusual with his Majesty upon
such occasions-that wire communication
with Berlin should be kept intact through
out the route which he had mapped out
for his trip, and also gave instructions
that in the event of his going to any point
which was not linked in the telegraphic
circuit reaching Berlin, dispatch boat
should be sent to that point with dis
patches and for the purpose of conveying
return communications to the nearest
telegraph station to be wired to Berlin.
Besides Count Philip Won Gutenberg.
German Embassador to Austria, the
Kaiser's suite is composed of Admiral Won
Henden-Bibran, chief of the Marine Cab
met; the deputy chief of the Military
Cabinent, Count Won Moltke, Court Mar
shall Baron Won Lyncker, Counts Gortz
and Won Hulsen and Aides-de-camp Won
KesseI, Won Soholt, Won Arnim and Won
Moltke.
No repose is expected by any of the
Ministers during the tour of the Kaiser,
except in the case of the head of the Home
Department, in which affairs are quieter
than in any other branch of the Govern
ment service. On the other hand, the
Foreign Office is in state of anxiety over
the developments in Macedonia and Crete.
The Kreuz Zeitung, usually well in
formed upon official matters and particu-
fairly those connected with the Foreign
Department, claims to know upon au-
thority that the Foreign Office is chiefly
concerned in the situation in Macedonia,
and that the alliance of Servla, Montenegro
and Bulgaria under the approval of Russia
means Russia desertion of the Porte. If,
the Kreuz Zeitung adds, the rising in
Macedonia should become general, it will
check Austria's long-prep pared advance to
Salonica, which port the Austro-Hun-
garian Government has coveted possession
of for years, and this would be likely to
involve war.
The officially inspired press in Berlin
touch the matter with a great deal of
diffidence. The Vienna Fremdenblatt, an
official organ, however, declares in an
article in its issue of yesterday that all of
the powers are desirous that the trouble
in Crete shall be settled at once, all of
them being aware that general upheaval
in that island would lead to the breaking
up of the Turkish Empire. Therefore, the
Fremdenblatt continues, the powers are
determined TO maintain the status quo at
all hazards. The paper adds that neither
union of Crete with Greece nor the
granting of autonomy to the island, as
claimed by the Cretan radicals, will re-
ceive the assent of the powers.
The Vossische Zeitung has received ad-
vices saying that the Turkish warships in
Cretan waters are totally impotent to pre-
vent the landing of expeditions from
Greece and narrates the capture of the
Turkish torpedo-boot Elder by party of
thlrty-five Cretans. The Elder, which was
built at Dantzic for the Turkish Govern
ment, was capable of developing a speed
of twenty-five miles an hour. She was
surprised during the night by band of
Cretans who killed all OF her crew except
one of her engineers, German.
The Emperor's speech on the occasion of
the launching of the new German battle
ship Kais r Friedrich III at Wilhelm
shaven, last Wednesday, has met with an
echo of hearty approval throughout the
empire, which foreshadows popular assent
to large increase of the German navy,
one of the Kaiser's desires.
The Tageblatt, in an article upon this
subject, expresses belief that the Reich
stag will certainly vote to grant the
requisite amount of money to create
powerful navy and thus satisfy the wishes
of the Emyeror.
The Vorwaerts, the organ of the Social
lists, sneers at the Emperor's speech, par
ticularly at his references to his grand
father, Kaiser Wilhelm l. The paper
denies the Emperor's assertion that the
old Kaiser was adored by the people, and
declares that the Socialists especially have
reason to recollect the black shadows
which clouded the reign of that monarch.
In view of the audacious tone of the
Vorwaerts' article, it is not surprising that
the Ministry of Justice refuses TO enter
tain the appeal of the Socialist, Herr
Kunert, who was recently elected to the
Reichstag from Halle, for an abridgment
of the term of Imprisonment, which he is
now undergoing. Herr Xunert, as editor
of the Vorwaerts, was sentenced to prison
for obtaining and publishing copy OF the
Imperial decree of amnesty issued upon
the occasion of the twenty fifth anniver-
sary of the foundation of the Empire in
advance Of the official publication of the
document.
The Liberal and single-standard news
papers express themselves as satisfied with
McKipley's sound money declaration en-
bodied in the platform adopted by the
Republican National Convention in st.
Louis.
The Vossische Zeitung. despite its fears
that there may be further high protection
legislation in the United States, halls the
nomination of Mckinley as a welcome
deliverance from many worse things that
could have happened.
The Tageblatt prints homily upon
American politics, in which it declares
that the American corrupt plutocracy and
system of professional politics are bring
ing the United States to ruin, concluding
by saying: at will be well if gold shall
win the day."
Hon. Edward +. Uhl. United States
Embassador to Germany, and Mrs. Uhl
have been received by Prince ana Princess
Frederick Leopold at their palace in Will
helm Platz. Both the Prince and Princess
conversed with their guests in English