Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-13
RUSSIA HATES GERMAN
Numerous Unfriendly Acts Occurred During
the Kaiser's Late Visit.
While the Rulers Are Evidently
jccts Are NOtoriOusly Hostile.

From the New York World.
Although brief announcement has been
made CT the fact that a German sailor who
had used his saber to kill a Russian COM
rade at Cronstadt during the visit of the
kaiser to ST. Petersburg mad been hanged
as a murderer two days after Emperor Will
lia nj had sailed for home, yet it is only now
that the Novoe Vremya, the leading Rus
sian newspaper, ventures to call public at
tention to the fact that the ARRAY between
tie German and Russian sailors at Cron-
stadt was by no means the only incident
of the kind that signalized the kaiser's
visit to the car.
William WIS not welcome, and had come
self-invited. and although he was received
with every conceivable courtesy by the car
ard cZarina, yet the general public, and in
particular. the military Ilen, did not hest
tate TO show by their behavior how little
The latter were exposed to every oonceiv-
able annoyance and slight whenever they
appeared in public.
Insult to German Pride.
One evening number of German officers
of the emperor's encourage were being en-
tertained at one of the city gardens o.
parks by number of Russian officers of
the Imperial Guard, who had been assigned
by the car himself to this by no means
congenial duty. Suddenly the band which
vas playing struck up the "Marseillaise, -
whereupon all the public attending, includ-
ing the Russian officers present, rose from
their seats and barred their heads in compli-
n.ent TO the country which has adopted this
Inspiring song and tune as its national
hymn.
The German officers, as guests of their
Russian comrades, had no alternative but
to do likewise. But they did 1T in such an
upgraciors and sneering manner and gave
n fltcev, IT
the public present became distinctly hostile
in its manifestations, and when the Ger
n ans were passing out of the garden man
deliberately got in the way of one officer
jcstled him and trod on his foot without
apologiZing, and with the obvious intent
of insulting him.
Ran the Russian THROUGH,
Without minutes hesitation the officer
whipped out his sword and ran the Rus
sian through the body, MORALLY wounding
him. According to military ethics in the
monarchical countries of continental Eu-
rope he had no alternative. This was real
lied by the Russian officers, who crowded
around him to prevent him from being torn
to pieces by the Infatuated public, then es-
corted him on board ship, where, after the
matter had been reported to the kaiser, he
was placed under easy arrest until the
squadron sailed.
Fad the affair happened in England or in
LIE cE-itA states demand would have
been made for his immediate surrender
ard any plea the German emperor might
have made that a reigning monarch on his
travels was entitled to the same preroga-
tives and immunities from loo al jurisdiction
as his bassador-immunities that are ex-
tended to the suite-would have been ex-
anined and passed upon by the tribunals
C1nr Declined to Act.
But the car declined to raise any such
controversy. He knew that his own Off
GERS would have been expected to act in
precisely the same way had they been sub
jected TO any such insult in Germany.
Moreover, it is extremely probable that
Emperor William would have refused to
surrender the officer, of whose behavior he
approved. So the matter was hushed up
ard, although everybody in st. Petersburg
was talking about it, the newspapers were
forbidden to publish anything about it for
the time, Geographic dispatches to foreign
newspapers about the matter being barred
by the censor
The whole affair serves 10 show how very
strained are the relations between the Ger
mans and the Russians, and at the same
time deserves to be placed on record as an
incident unique in modern times