The record-union., 1896-08-24
Prince Hohenlohe on the Eve of Re-
tirement.
Two Parties Within the Government
Are Fighting Each Other Desper-
ateIy With the Military Cabinet
PrevaiIing-Crete Likely to Obtain
Autonomy With the Payment of
Tribute to the Sultan-PreCau-
tions for Protection of the Gar.

tions for Protection of the Gar.
BERLIN, Aug. % Copyright, 1896 by
the United Associated Preeses) before
the Reichstag reassembles in Novem-
Der it is certain that there will be i'm
portant changes in the Cabinet, if, in
deed, an entire revision of the Ministry
does not take place. Despite the per-
sistent semi official denialS that Prince
Hohenlohe, the imperial Chancellor, is
on the eve of retirement from office, the
"Boersen Zeitung'' hits the mark
squarely in stating that the Chancel-
lor asked the Emperor for his dismis-
sal at the time of his recent visit to the
Kaiser at Wnhelmshoe, knowing that
the Hahnke-Lucanus cabal prevailed
against him, but the Emperor induced
the Prince to remain in office until after
the visit of the Car and CZarina to
Breslau.
The "Freissinnige Zeitung" RadicaD
in an article discussing the character of
the future Cabinet, asserts that during
the Emperor's recent trip to the Nord
land, Count Botho Zu Gutenberg, Mas
ter of Ceremonies at the imperial court
of Germany, accompanied by his
cousin, Count Doenhaff followed the
Kaiser's route throughout his majestys
tour and kept up constant communica
tion with his brother, Count Philip Eu
lenberg, German ambassador to Aus
tria, who accompanied the Kaiser in
the capacity of representative of the
Foreign Office.
The motive of the "Freissinnige Zei-
tung' in making this statement is to de-
pict the Emperor as the central figure
in the intrigues for a change in the
Chancellorship, and this opinion of the
matter has obtained the ready support
Of a large number of persons in and out
of official life in view of all that is now
transpiring in the official circle. The
feature of the existing imbroglio is that
two parties exist within the Govern
ment which are fighting each other des-
nerately. First there is Freiherr M&F-
schall Won Bieberstein. Minister of
Foreign Affairs, whose organ, the CO.
logne Gazette" declares that it is i'm
possible to consider the Kaiser's mill
tary Cabinet as identical with the En-
peror himself, and, second, there is the
practically governing General Won
Hahnke. the chief of the Kaiser's mill
tary Cabinet, who, through the medium
of the 'Reiehesanzeiger," the official
gazette, declares that the military Cab
met only exercises the Emperor's be-
hests.
Freiherr Bieberstein himself seems
destined TO be elbowed out of the Cabi-
net, and DR.. Lucunas the chief of the
Emperor's civil Cabinet is mentioned
as having very good chance of being
promoted to a higher office. Nobody
connected with the semi-official press,
nor anybody connected with the Gov
ernment, has hitherto supposed that DR..
Lucunas held the inside track, but that
parsonage is now credited with being
fully informed of everything that the
Kaiser intends to do.
Several newspapers which pretended
TO be officially inspired were wofully
discredited over the matter Of the re-
tirement of General Bronsart Won
ScheIendorf from the Ministry of War
Instances of this are shown in the fact
that the Berlin "Tageblatt" and the
Hanover Courier" at the same hour
that the announcement of General
Scheliendorfs resignation was pub
iisded in the 'Reichsanzeiger," ap-
peared with their alleged inspired an
nouneements that the Minister of War
and the Kaiser had become reconciled,
and that the Minister would retain his
post.
The Berlin Government continues to
actively support the activity OF Count
Goluchowski, Austrian Minister of For
eign Affairs. toward the solution of the
difficulties existing in Crete. Since Lord
Salisbury's rejection of the proposal to
establish a blockade around Crete
Count Goluchowski has urged the Porte
TO grant a new constitution to the
island, the main features of which are
the appointment Of a Christian Gov
ernor and the establishment Of Cretan
financial autonomy with the payment
of tribute to the Sultan under the gen
eral guarantee of the European powers.
The foreign Consul a Canea commu-
nicated the terms of Count Goluchow-
skis plan to the Christian deputies of
Crete on Friday. and although the
fighting between the Christians and the
Turks on the island is still in progress,
it is the opinion In diplomatic circles
here that the Christians will accept the
conditions. which are really tanta-
mount TO autonomy with an annual
Payment of tribute to the Porte based
upon the ratio of the revenues of the
island.
Although the statistics of the cur
rent harvests are stin incomplete, a
sufficient number of reports have been
received at the Department of Agricul-
ture upon which to base an estimate
that there WY be a medium crop of
wheat and rye in Germany and fine
harvest of both Of these grains in Aus
tria- Hungary. The general failure of
the cereal crops in Russia and the pro-
hibition of time operation on the
bourses in Germany are leading to
speculative transactions in import or
dors upon the chance that demand for
the grain thus purchased viii spring
up.
The agrarian newspapers are advising
home producers 70 hold on to their
grain with the assistance of bank ad
vanees, and the position points TO a
reaction with keen competition between
homegrown and imported grains.
Concerning the state Of the crops in
Russia the consensus of opinion is that