The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-31
GERMANY UNEASY
AT THE CLOSE ALLIANCE BE.
TWEEN RUSSIA AND FRANCE
ManeuveTing of German Warships y Fail'
ure-Bfsmarck Consulted rs to Increase
of the Navy-A Goodness Between EN-.
peror william and the King Of SaxoDy.
A Train Wrecked With Design Against
the EmDerOr's Life.

Train Wrecked With Design Against
the Emperor's Life.
CCapyrighted by the Associated Press.).
Berlin, August 2s~-The visit OF president
Faure to Russia has been calmly comment
ed upon in Berlin, though there Is a dis-
TINT undercurrent Of uneasiness, Wh1ch
tends to show that the newspapers do not
believe what they are printing on the
subject. The opinion is expressed, how
ever, that the czar has again made IL
plain to France that Russia cannot be
dragged into following a policy OF he
'vanche' and the conviction becomes all
the time more widespread, as it is indus
triously pressed in every quarter that
France will ~reEinquish the idea of revenge
upon and the reconquest OF
AIsace-Lorraine, and will gradually be-
come more friendly to Germany. Doubt
less, however, the wish in this case is
father to the thought.
An unpleasant surprise has been created
by the naval correspondence of The kreuz
Zeitung and other conservative news
papers, as we'll as the correspondent OF
The Deutsche Zeitung Rundschau, report
ing the naval manoeuVres near DantZlc
during the past fortnight. They describe
the evolutions of the German war vessels
as having been total failures SO far as
quicknesS and maneuyering ability to re-
sist torpedo attacks are concerned. On
Tuesday last, off the port of Bella, one
iron clad division narrowly missed rum
ming aground while maneuvering to es-
CAPS. torpedo boats. The correspondents
who were themselves naval men, and who
We're on board the vessels engaged In the
maneuvers attribute this lack of skill to
the want of modern equipments on the
German ships. The government will
argue from this that more cruisers are
needed for the German fleet and will
rnrggp the naopCGifV of forming "A DIVISION OF
cruisers.
The new chief of the nav department,
Admiral Won Tirpitz, paid a visit to
Prince Bismarck during the week and
consulted the eX-chancellor on naval mat
ters. especially as to the need of a larger
German navy. Prince Bismarck conceded
the necessity of strengthening the fleet,
but he strongly dissuaded the admiral
from making that the principal issue in
the reichstag during the coming session
OF that body. On the following day Ad-
miral Won Tirpitz went to Wilhelmshohe
to report the result of his visit to the
emperor. It is said on high authority that
his majesty still c1ings to his intention to
force the reichstag to grant much larger
appropriations than hitherto for naval
construction; but the centre and the lib
eral factions still stubbornly oppose the
proposition and the newspaper organs OF
these parties never miss an opportunity
OF repeating their opposition to the en-
peror'S pet project.
There is a decided GOODNESS between the
emperor and the king of Saxony. The
emperor blames King Albert for the lat
teT's recent decision in the Schoumburg
Lippe succession case, as calculated to
destroy belief in the divine right theory.
Because of this GOODNESS. King Albert has
refused to be present at the army
m~aneuvers next month and has accepted
the invitation OF Emperor Joseph, OF Aus
tria, to witness the army maneuverS in
Hungary.
The investigation into the recent de-
railment of the Hamburg-Berlin express
naur Gallo which 1a1 RI loss of life and
the destruction of considerable property,
has yielded sensational results. The Ber-
lin detectives. have ascertained that the
accident was due to a criminal plot in
which at least five persons, evidently for
eigners, were concerned. Dynamite car
tridges were placed near the tracks and
lighted fuses were attached to them. The
political police of Berlin have further
learned that five anarchists, evidently
the same five persons, left Paris for Ger
many n week before, together and they
were seen at CeIle the night before the
accident. They made inquiries in broken
German regarding Emperor Williams
trip over that road. but did not obtain cor
rect information. 1t is now believed the
plot was an attempt upon the emperor
life.
Cioluczi. the Hungarian who murdered
the wealthy widow Schulze and her
daughter in this city, is believed to have
fled to America on a steamer from Ham
burg. The Berlin police have cabled a
minute description of the man to New
York. The sole heir of the murdered wO-
men is a step-son of the widow Schulze
who. when last heard from, was foreman
of q. ST. Louis brewery. The estate is
worth several million marks.
The Lokal AnZeiger prints an interview
with Mehmed Nouri Bey. of the Turkish
foreign office at Constantinople, in which
he is quoted as saying: The Armenian
revolutionists in Turkey are all pupils
and protegeS of the American mission
schools at Marsovan, Bit1is, Erzeroum an6
Van. The activity of these schools are
the curse of Turkey and Armenia alike