The Indianapolis journal., 1897-09-05

firmed by the reception his Majesty met
with at Warsaw this week. There the Poles
seemed to have given him most hearty
welcome and in political circles much i'm
portance is attached to his Majesty's visit
TO Poland.
Between the intervals of the universal
shouting for peace the heads of the various
nations have been busy perfecting the ef-
fectiveneAs of their armies by autumn
maneuvers. Emperor William paraded an
army corps at Coblentz. Wurzburg and
Nuremburg, on the occasion of his visits
to those cities and to-day, at Hamburg,
his Majesty paraded four army corps be-
fore himself. the Empress, the King and
Queen of Italy, the King of Saxony, the
King of Wurtemburg, the Prince Regent of
Bavaria. the Grand Duke Nicholas of Rus
sia, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught,
the Duke of Cambridge, Prince and Prin
cess Henry of Prussia and many other
notabilities. The army maneLvers proper
do not begin until Monday next. when 143
battalions of infantry. lis squadrons of
cavalry III batteries of artillery, Il technl-
cal companies and three companies of mill
tsry aerOnauts will be divided into two
armies of Prussians and Bavarians. The
Germans have actually mobilized larger
force THAI they had on the French border
in 1870 within ten days of the declaration
of war, and the troops are in the very posi-
liZed for war to-day.
Though army maneuvers on grand scale
are occurring in the Crimea, the Car at
the Warsaw maneuvers will witness the
opera tions of 45O0 officers and IL 100 men.
or l76 battalions of infantry. l52 squadrons
of cavalry and 644 guns. The maneuVers
will be particularly directed towards solV-
ing the difficulty of supplying the troops
with hot food in the field, improving the
+ bicycle, postal telegraph and ambulance
| services
The French army maneuvers, which will
be held in the north of France, will bring
two army corps together.
The British army maneuvers, which I'm
ished to-day near Arundel and which FUR
.nished instruction to- 10000 men, have not
called forth any particular comments from
the military critics, except their complaints
Of the presence of too many boys in the
ranks and the remark that the continental
armies outclass the British In organization.
When Dr. Theodore Herzl, the so-called
new Moses" made his farewell speech at
the meeting of Zionists at Basle, Switzer-
land. during the week he declared the con-
gress had been worthy of itself and of
Israel. Then ensued a dramatic scene
tears. kissing and rejocing-beggaring de-
scription. Though Rabbi Adler of London.
declares that the ZioniStS' congress was
mischevOuS, it is the opinion of the
thoughtful in the political world that this
movement will have to be reckOned with in
the near future. The two main objects on
which an expression of opinion was asked
for on the part of Zionsts in all lands We're
ter and the formation of the machinery to
carry it out, and they were faVorably ac
claimed by an present.
! While Queen Victoria was travelling from
Osborne Isle of Wight, to Gosport during
the week on her way to Balmoral, Scot
land, her Majesty called Staff Captain w.
G. Goldsmith. commander of her yacht, to
the quarter deck, and in the presence OF
the court and of the crew she conferred on
| him the honor of knighthood. The affair
was entirely spontaneous and is one of the
few instances of knighthood having been
conferred by the Queens own initiative in
stead of as result of political intrigue.
The Church Times says that the influence
of Americans here has led to the introduce
tion of the name of the President of the
! United States into the collects for the
! Queen.
The supporters of rational dress" have
arranged with seven ladies' bicycling clubs
to make bloomer demonstration by wheel
ing from London to oxford, where occurs
the dinner of the national dress congress to
be held under the presidency of Viscountess
Harbarton and under the. patronage. of
Ladies Colin Campbell, Randolph Churchill,
| Richardson and Henry. Somerset