The Indianapolis journal., 1896-02-02
HOHENLOHE MAY GO
HE Is NOT IN ACCORD WITH THE
YOUNG WAR LORDS NAVAL SCHEME.
Emperor william Determined to Dou'
bic the Number of His Fighting
ships-Germany and Venezuela.


BERLIN, Feb. IA high official of the
Colonial Society informs the Associated
Press correspondent that Emperor William
is firmly determined to carry out the prof.
ect OF doubling the size of the German
navy. The official alluded to has had re-
peated conversations with Emperor William
on this subject during the past three weeks,
and he asserts that during the coming sum-
mer the plan for the reorganization Of the
navy will be drawn up. The present pro-
gramme for slowly enlarging the navy
must remain in force for the next three
years, but in the meanwhile the new plan
Will be adopted, the preliminary steps will
be made and means to execute 1t will be
secured His Majesty is convinced that this
is absolutely necessary in order to secure
to Germany permanently her position as
great power and especially as a rising
colonial power Hence, all the Emperor's
energy will be bent to that end. Some
thing, however must be done Immediately,
and If the present Reichstag refuses to
grant large sums for the building and
equipment of feet Of fast cruisers the
nation will be appealedDto and an attempt
made to raise money for this purpose by
popular subscription. Already a score of
German mobiles and big merchants have de-
clared their readiness to subscribe 100000
marks to form the nucleus of the fund.
Among them are Duke John Albrecht, of
Mecklenburg the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen,
Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia, Bar
ons Bleichroder, Stumnf and Krupp, and a
number of Hamburg and Bremen exporters.
1t is further stated that Prince Bismarck
has expressed to the Emperor his belief in
the necessity of creating a strong German
navy The fact that Prince Hohenlohe, the
Imperial Chancellor, and some of the other
members of the Cabinet do not acquiesce
in these views has, il is asserted, caused
his Majesty TO seriously consider the ad
visibility of making changes in the Min
istry. The Emperor's intention, however, is
not to hasten this change, but to await a
favorable opportunity. Prince Hohenlohes
successor, it is thought in inner court cir
cles, will be Count Philip Won Eulenburg,
the German ambassador at Vienna, who,
with his brother, is great favorite of his
Majesty.
1t is significant that the Hamburger
Nachrichten. Prince Bismarck's organ, in
an article published on the Emperor's birth
day, denounced the Cabinet and charged 1t
with obstructing his Majesty's plans. Ad-
miral Won Hollmann, Naval Secretary of
State, who is known to differ with the
Emperor on the plans of navy reorganiza-
ton, has already handed in his resignation.
The fact that Russia and France took
pains to show their friendliness towards
Germany on the occasion of Emperor Will
liam's birthday is generally commented on.
For the first time in twenty-five years the
French embassy, on the PariSer PlatZ, was
splendidly Illuminated and the Russian en-
bassador, in presenting Emperor William
with the Cars congratulations and hand
ing his Majesty beautiful present, con-
veyed the Cars high qualification that the
entente cordiale between Russia and Ger
many had been renewed during the i'm
portant crisis of the last year.
The Reichstag, on March 2, is to cele-
brate the signing of the preliminary peace
of 1871 by a grand demonstration to which
Prince Bismarck and other surviving
statesmen and generals OF war times have
been invited.
In the Reichstag yesterday attention was
called TO the fact that bacteria has been
discovered in imported rye. Herr Koehler,
director of the imperial Board of Health,
explained that an examination had been
made of German, American, Russian, Aus
trian, Rogmanian and Turkish samples Of
rye with the result that it was demon
strated that the American cereals had the
proved that bacteria could not resist bak-
ing and boiling and that those found in
grain are innocuous.
In the lower house of the Prussian Diet
to-day the Minister of Husbandry, Baron
Won Hamnerstein-LoxtenN declared that
the government measures regarding the i'm
port of cattle and meat were exclusively
intended TO prevent the danger of infec-
ton. He further explained that the short
ness of the period in which arrivals of
cattle from northern countries were kept
in quarantine was due TO the fact that cat
tie diseases were least prevalent there.
The news which reached here from New
York that the German war vessels Storch
and Suabia have been ordered to Venezuela
is denied at the Foreign Office. But an Of
fetal of that department Of the government
said: "Assuredly, however, Count Won Rex
Cthe German minister to Venezuela) has
received instructions enabling him TO bring
the Venezuelan government to terms.
President Crespo cannot invoke the aid of
the Monroe doctrine In TINS matter. The
but il does not extend far enough to shield
a willfully recalcitrart debtor against the
Just claims Of European nation. Ger
many certainly intends, after waiting more
than a reasonable time, to collect the debt
due to her citizens, and a naval demonstra-
ton may finally have to be made in Vene-
zuelan waters. But just now nothing has
been ordered
The relations between Emperor William
and Prince Luitpold, the regent Of Ba-
varia have improved lately, and on the i'm
perial birthday the regent gave a splendid
banquet and enthusiastically toasted the
Emperor. The regent also appointed his
Majesty chief OF the Sixth Bavarian Regi-
ment. Incidentally, during the next session
OF the Bavarian Diet, the insane King Otto
is to be declared civily dead, and Prince
Luitpold win be chosen King OF Bavaria
There was a judicial inquiry yesterday
into the publication, unauthorized and mex
plicable, by the Vorwaerts. organ of the
Socialists, of the imperial decree granting
amnesty TO prisoners. which that paper