The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-13

Russia's Ruler Makes Peace with the
Grand Duke of Baden.


ST. PETERSBURG. Nov. 12.-An imperial
ukase just issued announces that, it being
considered expedient to appoint perma-
rent charge daffaires at Carlsruhe capital
OF the grand duchy of Baden, Prince Canta-
cuzene, who has hitherto represented Rus
STA at Stuttgart, capital of the kingdom of
Wurtemburg and at Carlsruhe, has been
relieved of his post at the court of Baden.
The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of
Baden, towards the end of the visit of
the Car and Czarina to the court of Hesse,
intimated a desire to visit them, and, in
return, as announced by the Carlsruhe OFF,
cial Gazette, received a reply from the
Gar saying that arrangements had already
been made covering every day until his
departure from Darmstadt and therefore
his Majesty would be unable to receive
them. Emphasis was given to the incident
by the fact that about the same time the
Gar and Czarina entertained Prince
Hohenlohe, the German imperial chancellor.
and Princess Hohenlohe, and to increase
the irritation it was pointed out that the
refusal of the Car and Czarina to receive
the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of
Baden was an insult to the whole German
nation, as the grand duchess is q daughter
Of the late Emperor William l. grandfather
of the present Emperor of Germany. The
affair soon created so much stir that the
German government, on the day the facts
were published, issued orders forbdding the
eelegraphng of any comments on the SUBJ
ject many of the German newspapers hav
ing already expressed strong resentment on
thu subject.
The Tageblatt. on the following day, Oct.
26. explained that the refusal of the Gar to
receive the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess
of Baden was due 10 the sarcastic COM
ments made by the Grand Duke of Baden
on the conversion of the Czarina to the
Greek Church previous to her marriage to
the Gear in November, 1894. On the other
hand the Frankfort Zeitung gave as the
season for the Cars action in refusing
TO receive the grand duke and grand
duchess the fact that the crown prince of
ter, the present Grand Duchess Sergius of
Russia, but was rejected and the matter
left a coolness amounting to rancor, be-
tween the courts of DarmStadt and CarlS-
ruhe. The Car, the Frankfort Zeitung
added evidently wished to show that he
shares the feeling of his wife and of the
Darmstadt court in this matter However.
g semi official statement was issued from
Darmstadt Oct. &c denying that there was
any political significance in the Cars re-
ply to the intimatiOn conveyed TO him bv
Baden and explaining that his imperial
MaJesty's answer was bungled through the
maladroitness of the officers concerned. AS
II is more than likely that this answer was
sent through Prince Cantacuzene the tenn
porary charge d'affaires of Russia at the
court of BadeIf, this ''maladroitness'' may
have caused him TO be relieved of his post
at Carlsruhe.
Finally on oct. 81 the Frankfort Zeitung
said that the trouble which had arisen on
account of the refusal of the Car to re-
ceize the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess
OF Baden had been satisfactorily arranged
by an interchange of letters of explanation
the paper also implying that the Car had
offered an apology for the curt brevity of
MS telegram, explaining his inability TO re-