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| have orders to hinder in every possible
way the sale of the papers.
The Berlin Tageblatt's comments upon
the En- peror's speech to the recruits on
| Thursday, in which his Majesty is alleged
to have afterward addressed the officers
surrounding him, but purposely spoke in
| SO low tone that only those very near
him could hear what ne said, were errone-
ously conceived. The Tageblatt's article
| implied that the Kaiser was merely pre-
tending to frown upon the abuses which
have been committed of late, but it is now
| known that his speech was sharp protest
| against the practice of officers subjecting
| soldiers or civilians to rough treatment.
Germania, the Centrist organ announces
that Count Won Hompesch, who will lead
the debate on the part of the Centrists
upon the motion of that party IN the
Reichstag tomorrow in regard to the
Ham burger Nachrichten's disclosures.
will avoid as far as possible the lntroduc-
tion of the name OF Prince Bismarck into
the discussion, and further says that
Baron Won Buel- berg the president
of the Reichstag, will intervene if the de-
bate assumes personal character.
There may be some stormy scenes In the
Cham ber if the President does intervene,
as the present presiding officer IS not pos
sessed OF the suave manner which charac-
terized his immediate predecessor in the
Office, Herr von Levetzow, and conse-
ouently cannot so easily command the
house. The Germania also says that IN
| the final speech on the motion the Gen.
trists will propose the order of the day
and vote of confidence in the Govern
ment. For the Government Prince Ho-
henlohe will have the support of the
mem bers of the Right, but the Left and
the Socialists will maintain an aggressive
attitude throughout the debates on the
Bismarck and Brusewltz morions.
petition containing 10000 signatures
will be presented to the Reichstag, asking
:hat a bill be drafted reforming the mill
tary law in accordance with modern ideas.
Herr William Liebknecha has written to
the Socialist organ, the Vorwaerts, CT
which he is the editor-in-chief, saying that
1t Is mistake to consider the Armenian
agitation the touchstone OF Liberal poll
tics. All the rebeliions that may occur in
the Turkish empire, he declares, will only
advance the interests of Russia. He SYM
pathizes fully with all oppressed peoples,
he says, but in the present Oriental crisis
the Turks are subjected to a com bat
against annihilation and they have the
same rights to protect themselves and the
same rights to maintain their existence
that other nations have.
According to an article in the Berlin
Neuste Nachrichten, DR.. Raffel, Justice OF
the Peace at Oar Els -Salama, German East
Africa, has been appointed Municipal
President at Samoa, Chief Justice Ide hay-
ing declined to serve another term.
swindler, pretending to be a courier
of the Vanderbilts of New York, has been
conducting operations in Bremen and
other ports with considerable success. His
method Is to engage rooms at the leading
hotels for 'Mr. Vanderbilt and party"
who are to arrive on a certain steamer.
He orders the best apartments in the
establishment and draws up and signs an
agreement for any sum that may be de-
manded, after which he borrows what he
can from the Ia andlord on the pretext of
being temporarily embarrassed, owing to
the delay of his remittance or for some
other reason, and disappears.
The Berlin newspapers comment freely
upon President Cleveiand's attitude in re-
gard to Cuba, and agree that it is his in
tention to assert the right of the United
States to dictate Spain's future policy
toward Cuba.
Some journals argue that the corollary
OF the British submission in the Venezue-
ian dispute will be a strengthening of
American pretensions on the lines of the
Monroe doctrine
According to the Schlesische Zeitung
Premier Meiine persuaded the Car while
the latter was In Paris that the projected
reforms OF the currency of RussSa were in.
opportune, and that the Czarltlfs accord
ingly checked the schemes of M'de Witts.
the Russian Minister of Finance for a
pure gold standard of currency. The DO
sition of M. de Wttte as Minister. the
the paper says, has consequently been
or " haE Ian