San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-15
FROM FATHERLAND.
BERLIN, THE CAPITAL, EMPTIED OF
SOCIETY LEADERS.
Calm Before a Storm-Socialists De-
lighted With the POpulists Sue
cess at Chicago.

Berlin. July 1j.-With the departure
of the imperial family from Potsdam
there has been a general flight from
Berlin of official court and society dig
nitaries and leaders. The emperor has
not permitted some of the ministers
to leave their posts as yet and he re-
quired Freiherr Marschall Won Bic
bernstein, minister of foreign affairs;
DIR. Miguel. minister of finance, and
DIR. Won Boetticher. imperial secretary
of state for the interior. TO keep in
touch with him by telegraphing. The
minor officials, however, are free to
go wherever they please and the con-
sequence is that the various depart
ments of the government bear list
less and solitary aspect. The group
of court danes remaining as the en-
courage of the empress, together with
the presence of Crown Prince William
and his brother, Prince Eitel Frede-
rick, who recently came home from
Pleon, where they have been at school,
kept the circles of the new palace
| until Thursday, when the empress
and her family left for the Schloss,
at Wilhelmshoehe. The scattering of
the whole of the great world of Ber-
lin has seemed opportune for authors
of libelous pamphlets to try the cred
ulity of the public by issuing bro
| chure containing pseudo revelations
of court scandals, under initials,
which indicate the names of the per-
sonages implicated in the scandals.
| The authors of the pamphlets rehash
| the old stories which We're published
long ago, many of which have since
been repeated but shown TO be un-
| true. Won KotZe's wife, who is stay
| ing at Edmansdorf, as the guest of
l the princess of SaXe-Meiningen,
| knows nothing of the pamphlets and
| others of Won Kotze's friends declare
| that the publication of the stories was
| not authorized by him. The police are
prohibiting the sale of the pamphlets.
| With Prince Lebanon Rotvosky,
| Russian minister of foreign affairs in
Switzerland. while here will go this
| week from st. Petersburg; Prince Ho-
| henlohe. the German chancellor, at
| his chateau at Alt-Hausse, Russia
the King of Greece, at AK Les BaineS,
| for which place he is about to start
for a three weeks sojourn, after
/
another three weeks stay.
The ear is ON the eve of visiting the
| European capitals, and among all of
the leading diplomats, contemplating
| holidays, there will be a pause in the
| developments of the situation in the
east as might be expected.
The Politische Correspondent, an Of
fetal organ, has information that
| Prince Lobanoff- Rostovsky will de-
| vote his leave of absence absolutely
| TO the repose which is necessary for
the restoration of his health.
There is no doubt that Europe has
reached a period of armistice in the
4 diplomatic warfare over Turkey, but
4 the governments are relying too much
upon the slowing up of matters in
| Crete and the unlikelihood of a re-
4 cuIrence of important events in that
island. This is the official impression
| here.
| Dr. Nicolaides, the official represen-
| tatiye of the Cretan reform commit
| tee, who is now in Berlin, distrustS
| the political comparative calm and re-
| CARDS il merely as a brief truce be-
| fore the breaking out of the storm.
/ The only chance of permanent peace
| in Crete. he declares is in the inter-
vention of the powers and the grant
| ing of autonomy TO the island. Apart
| from the opinion expressed by Dr.
Nicolaides advices have been receiv-
ed here from Canea to the effect that
although the Christian deputies Will
attend the opening of the session of
the Cretan assembly today, they do
not intend to engage in debate with
the Moslem deputies, but will present
to BerOvitch Georgi Pasha, the newly
appointed Christian governor of Crete,
who will preside a document setting
forth the claims of the Christian Gre
tans. to which will be added de-
mand for universal suffrage and the
recognition of a Cretan flag with the
cross thereon They will give the
Porte a short time in which to re-
spond to these demands, and if the
Porte's reply shall be unfavOrable, as
il certainly will be, the Christian
deputies will constitute an indepen-
dent assembly. In the meantime the
insurgents will seize the advantage
afforded by the Turkish troops being
forced into inactivity and occupy all
of the strategic points in the island.
The fuss which has been made by
the French and Belgian newspapers
over the formation of German mill
tary camp at Elsenborn, on the Ger
man frontier, has no substantial basis,
Two years ago, the government pur-
chased large tracts of ground at NAL
medy and Elsenborn, which it was
understood were to be devoted to
making experiments in field opera
tions and shooting practice with va
rous kinds of guns. Since that time