The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-06
SICILYS ROYAL SoJoURNERS.
THE KAISER AND HIS PARTY SET
SAIL FOR VENICE.


BE Dropped on Reaching Venice.
The Emperor Reported Warming
Toward Bismarck Again.
Berlin, April 5.-Advices received here
from Palermo say that the sojourn in Sici-
ly of the German imperial party is con-
cluded and that the imperial yacht Ho-
henzollern, with the emperor and empress.
the Crown Prince and Prince Eitel Freder-
ick and their respective suits and attend
ants on board. will sail through the straits
of Messina and up the Adriatic, the vOy-
age being timed so that the party will
reach Venice on April 10.
The weather during their stay in Sicily
has been good. The party have visited sew
eral ports and points of interest in the
interior, the emperor and empress observ-
ing a quasi-incognito. The imperial party
have been well received everywhere. They
have not been troubled with the curiosity
of the public, nor have they been annoyed
by over attention on the part of the au-
thorities. The emperor telegraphed to his
brother. Prince Henry of Prussia, at
Rome, on Friday requesting him to con-
vey to King Humbert an expression of the
delight experienced by the kaiser through
out his tour. Accordingly, Prince Henry
went to the quirinal and delivered the
emperor's message. They were cordially
received by the king and queen, their re-
| ception lasting an hour. The emperor will
drop his incognito upon reaching Venice,
where he will be received by the municipal
authorities the Prince of Naples repre-
senting the king; the Duke of Sermoneta,
Italian minister Of foreign affairs. and
| Count LAMA di Busca, Italian ambassa-
| dor to Germany, the latter of whom left
Berlin on Thursday for the purpose of as
sisting at the interview which will take
place between King Humbert and the kali
| ser.
The kaiser and kaiserin duly observed
Easter week on board the Hohenzollern.
| The imperial pair went to communion on
| Thursday, DR.. Drysander the court
| chaplin conducting the services,
which were also attended by all
of the officers and most of the crew of
| the yacht. The younger children of the
| imperial family, who remained in Berlin,
| received a special donation of Easter
| presents to help compensate them for their
| disappointment in having been left behind
| by their older brothers. The younger boys
have been treated to special exhibitions
/ absence of their parents and two older
| brothers. The empress will return home
| in Vienna taking the Crown Prince and
| Prince Eitel Frederick with her, in order
| that they may begin their studies in the
| Ploon college. 1t has been a seriously
| considered subject who should be selected
to share the studies of the young princes,
and as the group selected Is now consti-
| tuted 1t includes the sons of Counts Hoch-
| berg and Schuelenburg, the son of an Off
| Ger in the army and three sons of mer-
| chants, representatives of the nobility and
| Durgherdom being thus comprised in the
| set of students with whom the imperial
| princes will be associated.
| The semi-official press are conjecturing
| that the emperor is again warming toward
| Prince Bismarck and are accordingly re-
| curing to praises of the princes genius
| and services to the empire. The Cologne
| Gazette, which recently published an ar
| ticle referring to the pitiful sight of the
| decayed chancellor stumbling, full of COM
| plants, behind the state chariot, now de-
| clares that the period of antagonism to-
| ward him is over and that calumny has
been silenced. His worst enemies" the
I Gazette continues, ARE ready to admit
| the grandeur of this colossal historic fig
ure and the heart of the whole Of Germany
yearns toward him."
| The Bismarckan newspapers do not ac-
| cept any criticism of the prince dealing
with the eX-chancellor as belonging to
past history and hold thar 1t is probable
| that he will still be called upon to guide
| the state through a crisis. The Berlin
Neuste Nachrichten asserts that the dis
| content at Prince Bismarcks dismissal
| from the public service remains as great
| to-day as 1t was in 1890.
The trial of Baron Won Hammerstein, the
| former conservative leader and editor-in-
| chief of the Kreuz Zeitung, upon charges
| of forgery and embezzlement will begin
| ON April Is. While Hammerstein wa a fu-
a.
| German police commisSary at Athens and
his arrival and subsequent Incarceration,
the conservative press have had as little
| to say of him or his case as possible, but
| their current remarks in view of the near
| ness of his trial, suggest that the line of
| defense adopted by the conservative party
| leaders in their liberation of Baron Ham
| merstein as an active member of the con-
| servative committee long after his crimf-
nal practices had been discovered, is sim
| ply that of throwing all the blame upon
| DIR. St0ecker, formerly court chaplain,
and shielding Baron Hammerstein. 1t is
doubtful whether this defense will stand
| Dr. Stoecker has declared his ability to
| prove that the other members of the COM
mittee had the same information as that
| possessed by himself as to what extent
| Baron Hammerstein was involved. If the
| trial is strictly limited to proof of the
| charges of forgery and embezzlement,
| however the committee may be able to
| escape the disclosures which another line
| of procedure would bring out.
The Militar Wochenblatt and the Kreuz
| Zeitung publish articles commenting upon
| the increase of duelling in Germany both
| journals deploring and condemning the
| practice. The AIiitar Wochenblatt holds
| that even the custom of duelling in the
army ought to be checked declaring that
no duel is justifiable except when it is i'm
| possible to settle the differences between
the principals through court of honor.
The report that England is making prep
arations to reinforce the British troops
in South Africa is awakening the grav-
est fears of South African complications.
Even the Vorwaerts, the principal sociai-
ist organ, warns Mr.. Chamberlain, the
British colonial secretary, not to meddle
further in the Transvaal, declaring that
England has too many difficulties on her
hands already to Justify her in increasing
them.
DR.. Koch, governor of the Bank of the
Empire, has resigned his membership in
the Economic Union of the Oberhaus ow-
ing to the character of the attacks made
by the bimetallist leader, DR.. Arendt, In
a pamphlet recently Issued by the lat
ter. DR.. Koch characterized DR.. Arendt as
a lampooner, whereupon Count Won Mier-
bach, the bimetallist leader in the Reich
stag, retOrted that DR.. Arendt was of as
good quality at least as DIR. Koch The
latter thereupon informed his colleagues
of his severance from the Economic
Union.
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