The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-04
GERMANY AND HER NEW GUNS.
Big Extra Appropriation Wanted For
the Artillery.
Copyright 1897, by the United Associated
Presses.

Copyright, 1897, by the United Associated
Presses,
Berlin, Jan. S.-The new military bill,
which will be laid before the Reichstag
soon after the chamber resumes its sit.
tlngs. will propose an addition to the mill
itary budget of 177OOO.OOO marks. Certain
semi-oficial papers, commenting on the
reports current last week, that 2O0O00000
marks would be demanded, have denied
the accuracy of the statement, and in
ferentially suggested that the country hal
at present no reason to fear an additional
burden through the army estimates. In
Point of fact. the new bill has for some
time been drafted, and forms part of
general scheme involving the creation of
new regiments of infantry, and a new
grouping of battalions and brigades. Mil
itary authorities, who are permitted to
speak on the subject, and whose opinion
is orth having, deny that the current re-
ports of the reorganization of the artillery
IS due to the Camel quick-firing gun being
adopted for the French army. The new
German field gun was tested at Krupp's.
in the presence of the kaiser, and special
approved as the most potent feld-piece
yet invented and has been since under
constant construction. The kaiser keeps
in close touch with Krupp's, at whose
works guns on the new modei but of diff
ferent caliber. are being rapidly manufac-
tured and tested. ....
Leading Berlin banking firms concur In
ba opi,{oy, fha pusetap oovnrnY,1a1t
has been negotiating a new loan in Paris
amounting to no less than 10000, 900
marks. Private advices from st. Peters,
burg, supported by letters from Paris, at
first mentioned an even greater sum, S0O.-
900 900, and added that the French bankers
had refused to consider the terms on the
ground that France was overloaded with
Russian loans; that part of the last loan
had not yet been absorbed by the public,
and further. that under the conditions of
that loan Russia was debarred from rails
ing another before April, 1897. Some ten
tative action towards negotiating with
Berlin and Frankfort houses has been go
ing on since the reluctance of the French
bankers to deal became known at st. Pc
tersburg, but these overtures were not re-
ceived favorably, so the Russian finance
minister has resumed communication with
!. the Paris firms. The loan. IL Obtained
| soon after April, will be the prelude to
the resumption of specie payments by
Russia, provided nothing happens in Eu-
! rope to endanger the cars present peace
| policy.
Apropos Of the now known tendency of
Nicholas II toward a liberal and pacific
regime, advices from Warsaw and other
centers in Poland concur in speaking of
a marked change in the restrictive meas
ures offered against the people by the au-
thorities, greater freedom being allowed
to the press and the public. A notable in
stance of the change of spirit in the Rus
sian authorities is seen in the correspond
ence of the st. Petersburg Novoe Vreyma,
which has opened its columns to advocacy
of the conciliation of Poland, larger de-
gree of liberation for the Catholic Poles
and the cessation Of some restrictive meas
ures throughout those now in the wide re-
gions where the Russian government has
the adhesion of the people The Novoe
Vremya has long been the fierce enemy
of the Catholic Poles, and this change of
front is therefore, significant. The czar's
recent action in resisting the pressure of
the Moscow authorities to punish the RI
otous university students by deporting
them to Siberia is another favorable sign
of better times in Russia
The first reception at court of the new
French ambassador, the Marquis de
Noailles, is fixed for the third week in
January. 1t is understood that the Kaiser
intends to mark the occasion as an espe-
cially brilliant court function. The sub
stitution of a French aristocrat of polish
ed manners for the bourgeois, M. Her
bette, whom court and kaiser alike detest-
ed, may do much to smooth diplomatic
relations between Paris and Berlin.
The non-committal tactics of Count Ru-
deni the Austrian prime minister, on the
eve of the dissolution of the Austrian
Reichsrath and the consequent holding
of new general election, as described in
these dispatches last Sunday, remain lit
orally true, but there are now signs that
the premier will favor the clerical partN
wherever he cam Hitherto he has been
virtually sitting on the fence and observ-
ing the indications of increasing strength
in the various parties with a view of as
certaining which group is worth while
cultivating as supporters of the minis
try, but within few days he has shown
his preference by filing number of va
cancies in several provinces by the APP
pointment of men Of clerical, or at any
rate, of anti-Semitic tendencies.
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RUSSIA WARNS THE SULTAN.