The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-22

men called to the ranks may not want
IN patriotism and courage, but
wretched payment, miserable food, and
The needs of their work at home have
put strain on their patriotism. AS
TO the treasury, it was announced as
ready for war with only e750,00O in the
chest and no credit in Europe. The
troops on the frontier are mostly bare
footed and hardly clad.
THE TURKISH TROOPS.
The advices of the Vienna Cores
pondence Politique, generally unbiased,
and fairly accurate, describes the con-
dition of the Turkish troops on the
frontier as bad, but asserts that the
equipment of the troops is excellent.
! These considerations must weigh with
the government in rendering it adverse
! TO risking war. These dispatches last
week announced a Servo-Bulgarian al
! lance, but since then it has transpired
! that the Athens cabinet had merely
| hoped for effective and immediate aid
against Turkey from these Balkan
states. 1t is now known that they are
rather against Greece than with her.
The personal equation has come in
again, and to the disadvantage Of
Greece. In the spring of last year,
King Alexander of Servia visited
Athens in connection with his proposed
marriage to the only daughter of King
George. The then premier of Servia,
NJ. Novakovitch, Pan-Hellenist, pro-
iected this matrimonial alliance but
King George had no liking for it. King
Alexander returned to Belgrade, where
new ministry under NJ Simitch was
formed, aiming at the Servo Bulgarian
entente. now concluded. The Princess
Marie of Greece has been betrothed to
a grand duke of Russia, and the king
Of 10
ment in settling the ARRANGEMENT with
Bulgaria. No encourag cement to Hell
lenism is the main point in the Balkan
Servia alliance.
semi-ofiicial report was recently
given that ex-minister of war General
Won BronSart Won Schellendorf would
stand for the reichstag in the Neck
lenburg- Gustrowl district, in the asrar-
ian interest. in the coming elections.
The denial was made in such a form as
to confirm the belief that he intends to
become a candidate for some constit-
uency. General Bronsart Won Schellin-
dorf would be a very uncomfortable
critic in the reichstag for his late col
leagues, Ministers Boettcher and Mar
schall Won Bieberstein. He is just the
man to pour out his pent-up wrath
upon them, so all means are being used
TO influence the kaiser to prevent him
reichstag. General Bronsart is rather
out oe tavor with the kaiser Count
Waldersee, on the other hand, has been
restored to his imperial majesty's good
graces. 1t is even said that the count
was consulted by the kaiser in draw
ing up his great navy schemes.
Does the Prussian police control the
police Of the whole of the German
states? This is a question agitating
fha of fha horn
debate in the Prussian landtag as far
back as Jan. 2S opened the contro-
versy. A member of the unterhauS,
Herr Won Dalwitz. called attention to
the fact that the project of Frankfurt
was drawing an augmentation of sal
airy for exceptional services from head
quarters at Berlin. DR.. MIGUEL, Prus
sian minister of finance, in replying,
explained that the project of Frankfurt
exercised surveillance under direction
of the ministry of the political police
throughout nearly all southern Ger
many. Frankfurt as a central point
was well fitted for such surveillance.
The oarticularists in the southern
states are Wroth over the idea and are
putting interpretations in their local
diets to ascertain how far the Prussian
police control extends. Unity of action
of the political police is a leading prin-
ciple at Berlin, and the federal govern
ments probably find the principle con-
venient.
The government has again given no.
tice and German-Americans are es-
pecially advised that Germans who
have emigrated and have been fined or
punished otherwise for contraventiOn /
of the military service laws, shall not |
be allowed to reside in Germany, eX-
cept under very peculiar circum- |
stances-a record of those must be kept |
in the war office.
The Hamburg American Steamship !
company will celebrate the fifteenth i
year of existence of that organization |
on Nav q at Hamburg, and the en-
peror is expected to be present at the |
jubilee fete. Upon the occasion, BAN /
quet will be given on board the COM |
pany's steamer Augusta Victoria
GERMAN CATHOLICS.
The annual conference of the Ger |
man Catholics will take place this year
at Freiburg, Switzerland, and arrange
ments are being made for a pilgrimage /
to the tomb of Saint Canisitus. The
pilgrims will assemble in F'reiburg, !
Baden, on Aug. %, and after the cele- /
bration of a pontifical mass, win leave
on the following day for Freiburg.
There will be four days sittings of the
conference. DR.. Lieber. the leader of |
the Catholic party IN the .relcnSldS,
and a number of other centrist deputies
will take part in the proceedings.
The third reading of the bill provid-
ing for the governments naval esti-
mates will take place in the reichstag
on Wednesday, but it is not expected
that the final vote there will be any
different on the decision of the cham
Der from that which was recorded yes
terday, when the representative of the
budget committee rejected the demands
for construction of new cruisers and a
number of torpedo boats was sustained.
In the meantime it is the general opin-
ion that the emperor will permit mat
ters 10 take their natural course and
refrain from precipitate action.
1t is announced that the American
Princess Chimay, formerly Clara Ward
Of Detroit, who eIoDed from Paris
some time ago with a Hungarian fid-
der called Janos Rfgo, and who was
divorced by her husband,
the Prince of Chimay of Belgium, will
appear on the stage at the Winter
garten in this city on April 4, accom-
panied by her Daramour.