The herald., 1896-03-29
IN THE kA|SER'S REALMS
GERMANY'S POLITICAL ATTITUDE DC
TATED BY CONCERN FOR ITALY.
The Teuton Distrusts England and Her Am
bilious schsmes. While the Russo-Gsr-
manic Friendship Grows Stronger-A Very
EARLY spring-Soms Social Notes.
Ass ociated Press Special Wire.

AsSOclhttu fTcSS oDecidi W AES-
BERLIN, March Isl (Copyriebsed, 1896.
by the Associated Press l-The attitude OF
Germany in the development OF the Egyp-
tan question has been pre-eminent in
public attention during the past week, and
the press utterances in Great Britain, Italy
and Austria have bessn closely watched.
Germanys g action in the matter is rniscon-
strued in Great Britain and Austria, ac-
cording to the newspapers, which deny
that her object in supporting Great Brit
aims proposition to use the Egyptian re-
serve fund for the Nibs expedition was in
any way to aid the latter country. They
declare that Germany's attitude was solely
determined out of concern for Italy, and
add that the Austrian statesmen appar-
emily construed her aid as an important
precedent, as Italy's african reserve no.
wise constituted casus foederis as defined
in the terms of the dreibund. Conse-
quently Germany is held to similarly aid
Austria in her oriental policy. This view
of the case, however, is fiatly repudiatsd
by the German government, and German
statesman who Is thoroughly qualified TO
express an opinion on the subject said:
"Germany's policy is not changed in the
least. In spite of recent events our rela-
stions with England remain the same, Ger
Emany distrusts England and her ambitious
.echemes, and Gewmany's support of the
tproposal to send an expedition 10 loongola
sin no way engages us in the future. Russia
fully understands this. though our friend
ship for Italy obliges us now to take con-
strary views to Russia and France. More
toveT, we could not engage to Austria in
amy ambitious movement in the Orient"
significant sign of the times is that
sGerman warships are forbidden to ouch at
English ports, and Emperor Willi.ui, it is
faaid, has determined not to visit England
ths year. On the other hand, the FRIEND
chip between Russia and Germany s not
Impaired, as shown by the fact that the
I'D will vic Ror1in i'm .oIi.
.ately after the coronation fetes at Moscow.
After the return of the emperor froan the
Mediterranean, his majesty viii! un Fedl the
statue of his grandfather, William l.,
erected at Main.
Spring has commenced throught rlt Ger
many abnormally early. The W. sather is
warmer than it has ever been at his time
of the year since 1S4S. Navig; alton was
reopened on the Baltic, even to the farth-
est north, ten days ago and here have
Germany. The thermometer registered
02 degrees in the shade at Munich on
Wednesday last and 80 degrees in Berlin.
Prince Bismarck has thanked Prince
Hohenlohe for his toast of March u, upon
the occasion of the reichstag jubilee BAN
1uet, in a letter in which he speaks of
s'that kind, chivalrous oratiOn." and ex-
presses the hope that his Bismarck o. Sue
cessor will not find his Office "such a
crown of thorns'' as he found it to be.
Many of Prince Bismarck's admirers
will meet tonight at the grand commers of
the Philh ,rmonic society. At Friedrichs-
ruhe. Frince Bismarck's birthday. April
1, will becelebrated in a rather quiet man.
ner. A D. ocession from Hamburg will be
received aild an address will be made, but
few, if any other deputations will be re-
ceived, as the Princa's physician has for
hidden any undue excitement.
1t is now announced that the imperial
court at LeiE'sic has ordered the case of
Richard f. X ueebs, the American horse.
man, to be retired to the lower court, an
that fifty-one American witnesses shall i,e
summoned, ami the mare Nellie Kneeb bs
will be brought before that court. Pail
was again offered and refused.
The imperial chancellor, Prince Hoteyi-
lobe, will be II years old on Thurday
next. The emperor will send him. an
unique present, consisting of his ow,A por-
trait framed in the antlers of stays SHOT by
his majesty.
The Socialist press has been bitterly at
tacking the government for the wholesale
discharge of shipbuilders from the nav al
docks at Kiel.
Miss Catherine Parsons, daus shter of
Colonel Parsons, is engaged to sount AL
exander Won Gersdorf, son of tho imperial
chamberlain. The Gersdorf ia nily owns
. fine manorial estate, which is heavily
encumbered.
Mrs. Evans, wife of Captain R. K. Evans,
the military attache of the Uni'ied States
embassy, gave soiree on Tuesday.