The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-04-02
OUR Berlin CABLE LETTER.
GERMANY'S ACTION IN THE EGYP-
TIAN AFFAIR IS MISCON-
STRUED BY ENGLAND
SOLELY OUT OF CONCERN FOR ITALY
And Not to Aid England-The Case of
Richard Kncebes, the American
Horseman. Has Been Retired to
the Lower Court.

Berlin. March 2S.-(Copyrighted, 1896,
by the Associated Press.)-The attitude
of Germany in the development Of the
Egyptian question has been pre-eminent
in public attention during the past week
and the press utterances in Great Britain,
Austria and Italy have been closely
watched. Gcrmany's action in the mat
ter is misconstrued in Great Britain and
Austria, according to the German news
papers, which deny that her object in sup
porting Great Britain's proposition to use
the EGYPTIAN reserve fund for the Nile
expedition was in any way to aid the lat
ter country. They declare that Ger
manys attitude was solely determined
out of concern for Italy, and add that the
Austrian statesmen apparently construed
her aid as an important precedent, as
Italy's African reserves now is constl-
tuted Il causus feeder, as defined in terms
of the drcibund. Consequently Germany
is held to similarly aid Austria in her
oriental policy. This view of the case,
however is fatty repudiated by the Ger
man statesman who is thoroughly quail
fed to express an opinion on the subject
said to an Associated Press correspond
ent:
Germany's policy is not changed in the
least. In spite of recent events our re-
lations with England remain the same.
We could not engage Austria in any am
bilious move in the orient.
A significant sign of the times is that
German warships are forbidden to touch
ut English ports, and Emperor William,
it is now said, has determined not to visit
England this year. On the other hand,
the friendship between Russia and Ger
many is not impaired, as shown by the
fact that the car and cZarina will visit
Berlin Immediately after the coronation
fetes ut Moscow. They will stop at the
Russian embassy while there.
After the return of Emperor William
from the Mediterranean his majesty will
unveil the statue of his grandfather, Will
liam !, erected at FrankfOrt-on-the-M Main.
Spring has commenced throughout Ger
many abnormally early. The weather
is warmer than it has ever been at this
time since 1854.
Navigation was opened on the Baltic,
even to the farthest north, ten days ago,
and there have been several cases of sun
stroke in South Germany.
The thermometer registered % degrees
in the shade at Munich last Wednesday
and so degrees in Berlin.
Prince Bismarck has thanked Prince
Hohenlohe for his toast of March y,
upon the occasion of the reichstag jubilee
banquet, in letter in which he spoke of
that kind, chivalrous grafton and eX-
pressed the hope that his (Bismarck's)
successor will not find his office ''such
crown of thOrns as he found it to be-"
Many of Prince Bismarck's admirers
will meet tonight at the grand commers
nf tbn phil III n rnppic sncintv
AT FREDERICKSBURG Bsmarck's birth
day, April l, will be celebrated i'll a
rather quiet manner A torchlight pro-
cession from Hamburg will be received
and an address will be made; but few. if
any, other Populations will be received,
as the princes physician has forbidden
any undue excitement.
The official statistics of 1895 show that
Herr Krupp. the great gun manufac-
turer, is the richest Prussan subject. He
is taxed on an income of 7,135,OOO marks.
This is nearly half the crown donation
which the emperor gets as king of Prus
STA.
Baron Rothchild is classed us the sec
ond richest subject, with an income of
5,4S5,0O0 marks.
Count HuttenCzapski n captain in
the Fourteenth hussars, is the third rich
3,SO5,OOO Marks upon which he pays
taxes.
Herr Berliner takes the fourth place,
with an income nearly equal to that of
the last mentioned.
1t is now announced that the imperial
court at Leipsic has ordered the case of
Richard f.. Kneebes, the American
horseman, to be retired to the lower
court, and that 81 American witnesses
will he summoned and that the mare, Mel
lie Knecbes, will be brought before the
court. Bail, it is added, was again
offered and refused.
The imperial chancellor, Prince Ho-
henlohe, will be II years old ON Tuesday
next. He will be serenaded by the band
of the cuirassiers of the guard and will
receive the congratulations of all his
subordinates. The emperor will send
him unique present, consisting of his
own portrait, framed in the antlers of
stays shot by his majesty.
The Socialist press has bitterly attacked
the government for the wholesale dis
charge of shipbuiders from the naval
docks Mt Kiel.
The tide of emigration has been I'M
| usually large this spring. The Persia
from Hamburg took 116S emigrants, a
record cargo, and was unable to take
more. Another Hamburg steamer took
the remaining $40. The bulk of these
emigrants came from Russia and Aus
tria. There were only few Germans.
Miss Catharine Parsons, daughter of
Colonel Parsons, is engaged to Count
Alexander Won Gersdoff, son of the i'm
pcrial chamberlain. The Gersdorff fam
| lily owns Il fine estate, which is heavily
encountered.
Mrs. Evans, wife of Captain r. X.
Evans, the military attachc of the United
| States embassy, gave soree on Tues