The San Francisco call., 1896-05-31
The Cars Growing Influence Is
Contrasted With John Bulls
Waning Power.
BERLIN's GARRISON PARADEs.
Hun dreds of Thousands of People
Witness the Event-Great Disor.
der and Many Arrests.


of the Government to cement friendly re-
lations between Germany and Russia is
shown by the tone of the officially in
spired press in their articles descriptive of
and commenting upon the ceremonies of
the coronation of the Gar at Moscow.
Since the succession of Nicholas II to the
Russian throne every step the Kaiser has
taken toward the establishment of concord
between Germany and Russia has met a
responsive movement on the part OF the
Russian court and Government; still the
Emperor will not be satisfied that COM
plete harmony exists until visit upon
the part of the Gar and Czarina TO Berlin
shall confirm publicly that thoroughly
good relations between the two Emperors
have been restored.
Up to the present time the Berlin court
has received no positive notification of the
intention of the Czar and Czarina to pay a
visit to Berlin, but the Kaiser holds the
Cars promise that such a visit shall
occur in the course of the year. 1t is un-
derstood that the first journey that the
imperial couple will take outside of Russia
after the coronation fetes will De to Copen-
hagen, and the next trip will be to Darn
stadt, the former home of the Czarina. After
leaving Darmstadt the understanding is
that the Czar and Czarina will come to
Berlin and remain four days.
The feature of the semi-oficiaI COM
ments in the German articles referred to
is their tendency to dilate upon the growth
of the influence of Russia in Europe and
the East, as compared with the decrease of
England's influence in the same regions.
The Cologne Gazette devotes a long
leader to the declaration that Russia
within a few years has ouste6 England
from her virtual protectorate over Turkey,
and, in the domination of foreign policy,
has taken the lead in China over England
and is menacing from an unassailabIe
point of vantage the Anglo-Indian empire.
The Kreuz Zeitung says that the time is
drawing near when the Franco Russian
coalition will bring the long-prepared pol
icy against Englan to a climax, and that
Germany must stand aloof, watching her
own interests. Germans, the paper says,
may not desire TO see England driven from
the positions she has long held in Asia
and Africa, yet England crippled implies
that the chief opponent of German COLO
NAL expansion is weakened.
similar current of Anglophobia is seen
in the newspaper protests which are being
made against the official reception of 10
English naval architects who are coming
to Berlin on June 10, and will be feted at
KroIPs Theater by order of the KAISER A
large majority of the press attack the
reception of these visitors as being some
thing like an outrage upon National honor
and the German taxpayer.
The Neuste Nachrichten deplores the
probability that the Emperor may even
invite the English architects to the New
Palace, and advises Germans to hold them
selves aloof from the fete at Krolls
Theater. Continuing in this strain, the
paper assails the Home Department for the
misuse of public funds in entertaining
such guests. and expresses hope that the
Reichstag will have something to say on
the subject.
The International Miners Congress,
which has been in session at Aachen dur
ing the week. was chiefly notable for the
domination of socIalistic ideas over mere
trades. unionist views. The English dele
gates, headed by Ben Pickard, the labor
leader and member of the British House
of Commons for Yorkshire, Thomas Burt,
member of Parliament for Morpeth, and
other exponents OF trades unionism, were
borne down by the French and Belgian
socialist votes on questions of approving
the naturalization of mines, State guar
antees, miners sick and superannuated
funds, a fixed minimum of wages, ETC.
The German delegates refrained from yot.
ing on the question of naturalization of
mines, on the ground that bureaucratic
empire could not be intrusted with the
control of mines. The congress voted to
hold their next session in London in 1898
and decided to invite Russian and Ameri-
can delegates to attend.
The spring parade of the Berlin garrison
took place on the TempeIhof field this
forenoon. The weather was showery, but
the streets were lined with hundreds of
thousands of people. extending from the
castle to the Tempelhof field. The EN-
peror returned to the castle at noon at the
head of the color company and was
cheered throughout the route from the
field. Unusual precautions were taken to
keep the populace at a distance, police
men being stationed few yards apart, and
hundreds of mounted police and guards at
various points were assigned to the duty of
driving the crowds back.
This procedure had the effect to keen
the crowds in constant uproar, and led
to innumerable fights and arrests
Mrs. Uni, wife of the United States EN-
.bassador to Germany, was received by the
Empress at O'Clock this afternoon.
The Vorwaerts. leading organ of the So
cialists, asserts that the Emperor proposes
to give q lecture in the auditorium of the
Chemical Exhibition Building in the
course of the coming visit of the English
naval architects.
A congress of spiritualists was held this
week ir the Alsterhof in this city. Dele
gates were present from Munich, Vienna.
Prague, Copenhagen, Dresden and other
places. The congress founded general
union of German occulists. Herr Leopold
Engel, editor of Das Wort, was elected