The San Francisco call., 1896-08-30
Francis Joseph of Austria Rather
Cautious Not to Offend
France.
CoLoRLEss ToAsTs AT VIENNA.
Prince Bismarck Is to Be Visited Dur.
ing the Exchange of Royal
CourteSieS.

BERLIN, GERMANY, Aug. 29.-Although
the Gar has concluded his visit to Vienna
and taken his departure for Kief, where
he will stay until he is ready to go to Bres-
lau, at which place he will arrive Septem-
ber 5. Prince Lobanoff- Rostovsky, the
Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs. who
accompanied the Czar from st. Petersburg
to Vienna, will remain in the Austrian
capital several days longer, and the an
nouncement of this fact is causing the
growth of a large crop of surmises that
negotiations of some kind are in progress
between the Russian Foreign Minister and
GoIuchowski, the Austrian Minister of
Foreign Affairs. Prince Lobanoff's con-
ference with Prince Hohenlohe, the I'M
perial Chancellor of Germany, has been
fixed to take place at Breslau on Tuesday
next, Septembe l, and at this meeting
Freiherr Marshall Won Bieberstein, Ger
man Minister of Foreign Affairs will also
be present. Thus it will be seen that
whatever German diplomacy means to
effect in connection with the Cars visit
to Germany, will be concluded before the
Kaiser receives the Gear at the Breslau
station on the morning of September 5.
Every hour of the time from the arrival
of the Gar and Czarina at Breslau, till
the Russian and German monarchs leave
that city will be filled with ceremo-
mails, receptions, banquets, etc. Among
the high German officials whom the
Kaiser has ordered to be iii attendance
upon the Russian Emperor and Empress
are General Won Lignitz, commander of
the Branden Durg army corps; General
nj
Baron Heitze. On the morning of Sep
tember the Russian imperial party will
go to Goerlitz to review the Posen corps of
the German army, and on the evening of
that day they will start for Kiel, where
the German North Atlantic squadron has
been ordered to concentrate and receive
them. The programme of the Gar may
be altered, however, if the report be true
that the Czarina, under the advice of her
physicians, intends to abandon her tour
with her husband and return to st. Pc
tersburg to await her impending accouche-
ment, leaving the CZar to continue his
Journey alone. If this report is confirmed
the Kaiserin will not go to Breslau with
the Kaiser.
Though they have excited great deal
of public discussion very little importance
is attached in official circles to the confer
ences which have taken place in Vienna
between Count Goluchowski and Prince
Lobanof. 1t is known that Count
GoIuchowski has talked with Prince Loban-
off of the possible consequences of the dis
turbances which have occurred in Con-
sIantinople and that the two Ministers
have agreed that nothing ought to be done
bxra nf ba vryhJ n of
the serenity OF the concert of the powers
which the Gar desired to have prolonged
throughout his European tour. In dipIo-
matte circles there is a great deal of COM
ment upon the cold and perfunctory
terms of the toasts which were given at
the court dinner in honor of the Gar at
the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, as well as
at the luncheon which was given at the
Hofburg prior to the departure OF the
Russian imperial party to-day.
The semi-ofhcial press of Vienna ex-
plain the toasts given at the court dinner
by saying that they were necessarily color
less, in view of the fact that the Austrian
Emperor is a member of the Dreibund |
while the Gear is an ally of France. Re-
ferring to the old comradeship- in-arms of |
Austria and Russia against France would |
have been extremely awkward for the
Czar upon the eve of his visit to Paris |
hence Emperor Francis Joseph only al |
luded to the Cars visit to Vienna as a |
pledge OF the friendship existing between |
Austria and Russia.
The Fremdenblatt of Vienna, in an arti. |
Gle in its issue CT to-day, indicates as |
general result of the Austrian and Russian |
Ministers exchange OF views that it is the |
aim of Austria, Germany and Russia to |
continue to prevent a European conf1a- |
grafton. Precisely as Russia had no de-
sire to intervene in Armenia, so nothing
will be done now in the way OF interfer- |
ence in Constantinople, the Europeans
there being sufficiently protected by the
Warships of their respective countries.
According to the Berlin Tageblatt the |
Gar has expressed wish to have an in
tervieW with Prince Bismarck, and it is
Dossible that his Majesty may arrange to |
visit Friedrichsruhe on his way to Kiel. |
Before going to Copenhagen the Gar will |
snend two days at the Schloss Of Prince
Henry of Prussia at Hemmelsmark, in |
schleswig- Holstein, where he will meet
/ he Grand Duke and Duchess of Hesse, the |
Grand Duke Sergius of Russia, Princess
Louise of Battenberg and number of
others.
The German Catholic Congress, which |
has been sitting at Dortmund, adjourned |
on Friday after a five days session. Be- |
sides affirming the principle OF the tenn
pnral power of the Pontiff and expressing |
- m pathy with the rope JHe OOuSIesS oe-
bated at length the questions OF an aggres- |
sive Agrarian policy and German colonial |
expansion, the Centrist members OF the |
,eeichstag who were present as delegates |
Icing prominent among the speakers
both of these movements.
The congress also approved proposal |
submitted by the Centrists to Introduce IN |
I Prussian Landtag an educational bill |
extending the clerical control OF religious
teaching in the schools.
j. c. Penfield, United States diplomatic |
agent and Cobsul-General at Cairo, has |
arrived here with his family on his return |
10 Cairo from tour to the North Cape. |
Mr.. Penfield and his family were enter
iained while here by United States En- |
bassador Uhl. Part of their tour was |
.ade in company with the King of |
he Be gians, wnom they found to be very |
.lieEdly and thoroughly democratic.
Captain r. K. Evans, military attache |
to the United States embassy, will sever |
his connection with the mbassy on Octo- |
er 10 and shortly thereafter leave for |
home. His departure will be greatly re-
.retted by his many friends in Berlin.
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