The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-06
Duel Between Secret Police
. -. and the Foreign
+. -. Office.
:. -
Trial of the Five Editors to Cause
s. $. High officials to Be Dragged
=: Into the Mire.
RsaIizing That the Game Is Up. Won
::::.Luetzow Shifts the Blame on
Chief Tausch.


BERLIN, GERMANY, Dec. .5.-Wnen the
trial. of the hve editors, Baron Won
Luefzow and Herren Ploetz, Foellmar,
:Iieckert and Berger for ibeling Baron
Mdrschali Won Beberstein, Minister of
Foreign. Affairs, Prince Alexander Won
Hohehhole and Count August Eulenburg
was adjourned yesterday, the prevalent
opinion was that disclosures of even
more importance than those developed in
the course of the proceedings were i'm
pending. The case is really duel be-
tween the secret police and the Foreign
Office, in the progress of which Baron Won
Bieberstein obviously feels that he is on
rial himself and needs exculpation from
the suspicion OF having unduly Influenced
the Enperor's decision and carried on in
tricues against other Ministers.
When the Minister of Foreign Affairs
accused Baron Won Tausch, the chief of
the political police, of having inspired ar
ticles in the press against him and at the
same time admitted that the Foreign Of
flee employed newspaper men to supply
it with information in regard to the writ
ing. of articles and other ways, he incurred
the implication contained in the response
made by Baron Won Tausch that the po-
litical police did nothing different from
what was done by the Foreign Office. "If
it is honorable for the Foreign Office so to
work" he said, "the political police claim
that their method IS equally honorab BILE"
i: Tie whole affair is leaving the very
Worstimpression upon the country regard
ling the relations of the official bureau and
u, lad ha
mere mention, to say nothing of the fact
as shown by the confession OF Baron Won
Luetzow. that police agent on beggarIy
salary of $50 month could be employed
10 forge calumnies in behalf of the chiefs
of the political police, attacking the heads
of the Government and even endangering
International relations, has utterly shocked
the public. Nor is it surprising that
Baron Won Luetzow should have rounded
up on Chief Tausch. Realizing that the
Game is up he naturally shifts the response
; hIlity upon the shoulders of his employer.
q. Baron Marschall Won Biebersteln, how
ever, seems very likely to come first-best
:oHt. of the proceedings, though the ma
chinations of the defendants and their
alies:are so complicated that it isim pos
sible TO predict the issues of the case with
any degree of certainty. AS the public
uE35eoutor intimated yesterday, it is prob
able'that Baron Won Tausch will be accused
ms accessory to Luetzow's forgeries, yet
Baron Marsehal Won Bieberstein cannot
escape criticism. The hard fact remains
that actual antagonism between certain
Ministers within the Cabinet and the
thiefs of the Emperor's Cabinet not only
existed but still continues.
The explanation of the Minister OF
Foreign Affairs that articles appearing in
THE Cologne Gazette, the Hamburg Core
spGndenz and other so-called semi official
journals were rarely inspired by the For
aeign Office did not clarity the question
why these journals persistently attacked
the Chiefs CT the Emperor's Cabinet.
: The Neuste Nachrichten says: ut is not
without consid cradle astonishment that
tfie'. public watches the great machinery
set III motion by the Foreign Office over
these two despicable intriguers, while the
much more serious accusations against
Baron Marshall Won Bieberstein land
Others published in the Klatteradatsch
years ago were deliberately ignored, and
their authors, instead of being arraigned
in the courts, where they were eager to
appear, were challenged to fight duels
Another .reproach is levied against Baron
Marschall Won Bieberstein in the reason
which he has given why Tausch and
Iu6tzow are only now exposed. Some OF
their intrigues long ago affected General
Brdnsart Won Schellendorf, late Minister
of'7War; Herr Won Koeller, formerly Min
lister of the INTERIOR and Count Won
Eulen burg, yet he kept silent
"But he says: When Tausch had the
insolence to circulate calumnies about me
and the Foreign Office officials 1 decided
upon making the matter public The
people are asking what the Emperor
thinks ABOUT it all.
The Grand Duchess of Hesse presided
over the meeting in the palace at Darm-
stadt this week, which was attended by
the Burgomasters of Mayence, Offenbach.
Worms Giessen and Darmstadt The
purpose of the meeting was the founding
of the Victoria Melita Society (named
after the Grand Duchess of Hesse), the OBJ
ject of which is to establish homes for
conyalescents.
Hon. Edwin f. UhI. United States EN-
bassador, and Mrs. Uhl were received by
Princess Frederick Charles on Monday