The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-13
GERMANY'S SPY SYSTEM.
Revelations In the Recent Trials
Cause Great Surprise,
HIGHER OFFICIALS ALL INVOLVED,
Which Tcuds to Thwnrt His
fEnemics-EditOr Arrested.

| Berlin, December 12.-(Copyrighted 1895
by the Associated Press.)--The revelations
of the Leutzow trial and assent OF Baron
| Tausch, tho commissioner of detectives.
arc having unimaginod consequences. one
Of which is that the whole police spy eys-
TEN, as organized under Won Puttkamer
and perfected under zu-Eulenburg and
Won Koeller, will be either modified or
abolished. The cabinet has held daily Sos.
sions during the week celebrating a plan
| for bringing about one or the other Of these
results. The emperor on his return from
Hanover and Buckrug has conferred with
Count zu- Euicnburg. Police Chief Wind
helm. Prince Won Hohenlohe and Baron
Marshall Won Bicberstein and 1t is re-
ported in court circles that his majesty Is
In no way satisfied with the bold way In
which Hohenlohe and Baron Won Marschall
unearthed in court the police espionage
whereof they have been the victims for
years, believing that exposure Will pref
udice tho houses authority and German
influence abroad. scene between the cm-
peror and Baron Marschall at the new pal
ace is reported to have been very animated.
II is even claimed by some Of the en-
peror's encourage that the minister for
foreign affairs rendered his resignation.
which the emperor refused for the ums
being TO accept 1t is certain. however,
that the court clique hostile to Won
Marshall, with Count 2u- Euleuburg at it's
head, is again In the ascendant and unex-
pected developments will be looked for at
any moment
1t is significant that his majesty con-
ferred with everybody on the rccent events
before he consulted with Prince Hohenlohe
and Baron Marshall. The emperor is con.
/, | WINGED nf no aty NJ hn
detective service. 1t appears that Won
Tausch has powerful and influential back
ors. His trial has been fixed for three
weeks hence and it Is not doubted that It
win develop sensational facts.
| 1t is Interesting TO note that Count Her
bert bismarck visited his father this week
and that the next day the Hamburger
! Nachrichten came out with an urgent de-
mapd that the hackers and patrons OF
Won Tausch be unearthed and punished,
| Herr Bebel the socialist leader, has
: announced that at mass meeting next
Tuesday he is going to make interesting
revelations regarding the supporters OF
Won Tausch. The socialists intend to move
In the reichstag to eliminate from the
code the so-callod spy paragraphs.
One of the most sensational articles OF
the week appeared In the NOrwaerts. the
socialist organ. 1t was entitled signs OF
the Times" and In II the roltcnness OF
German political life was exposed and
compared with the ante-royolutionary
epoch in France The Eulonhurgs, Count
Won Wa1dersee and the Bsmarcks nre
openly charged with having prompted Won
Tnusch In hIs mast doinrs Five hundred
thousand coplea of the Voerwaerts were
sold on Tuesday before Vondersca ita
editor WIS arrested In the streets. Tho
D REMAINING. copies of the edition were COM
, nspated Tho Voerwaerts will be prosecuted
for SANDER
q Ncarlv All of the German papers strongly
that further DISCLOSURES are imminent.
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. sir III government circles "he'e ~ IS Wv
lontly condemned. 1t Is belleVen mat Ger
many's remonstranccs viii lead to their
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The krouse Heltung says AS matter Oh
: fact We have many more grudges against
the Americans than they have against us
for II is an established fact that German
sugar pays America more than the treaty
regulations FIX This is not oven denied by
= the Americans. and that alone would enable
us to rotaliate by such measure. In fact
londs our shIns with extra burdens, such
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