The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-14
DRIEBUND IS IN PERIL
NEW ALIGNMENT OF SOME OF THE
EUROPEAN POWERS PROBABLE.
Austria and Italy Leaning Towards
Britain Because of Their Med
iterranean Interests.
Copyright. 1897. by the Associated pressl

Copyright, 1897, by the Associated Press)
BERLIN, Nov. 13.-The visit of Count
Goluchowski, the Austro-Hungarian min
lister for foreign affairs, to King Humbert,
at Monza and it's attendant circumstances,
are regarded in German political circles as
being of the highest Importance. The Con-
sentative and Agrarian newspapers inter-
pref the visit as meaning closer under
standing between Austro-Hungary and TIA
ly and as a leaning of those two powers
towards Great Britain. The leading or
gan of the Agrarians and Nationalist, the
Deutsche Zeitung, says: I'm this we are
unable to see anything but weakening of
our diplomatic position. Under Prince Bis
marck our country was the mediator be-
tween Russia and Austria and Italy, while
France was isolated and England was kept
in check by Russia, The Russo English
irreconcilable contract is still existing but
France has made an agreement with Rus
STA, and Austria has made one with both
Italy and Russia, in each case over our
heads, and the internal and foreign policy
of Austria go hand in hand, under the lead
of two Poles Badeni and Goluchowski, who
aim at the suppression of German inf1u-
ence." The Rundschau publishes an ar
ticle to the same effect denouncing the du-
plicity of British statecraft, whereby both
Austria and Italy are both gradually be-
coming estranged from Germany"
An old diplomat of Berlin, who belongs to
one of the Dreibund powers, said to the
correspondent of the Associated Press:
Austria for several years has been disap-
proving Of Emperor Williams foreign pol
icy so far as England is concerned, and the
needless provocation of England contained
in that famous message to President Kruger
has been seriously, if silently, condemned
by Austria's statesmen. The same is true
of Italy. Both Italy's and Austria's Medi-
terranean interests are of vast and far
reaching Importance, and they cannot be
subserved so long as there is latent an
tagonism against England as a feature of
the Dreibund policy. An entente closer
than has ever before existed has been es-
tablished between Italy and Austria, so far
as their Oriental and Mediterranean inter-
ests are concerned, and this means con-
Sonance of their interests with England in
that respect. To that extent, then, the
Dreibund has been weakened, and Germany
has been left to follow her own Oriental
and colonial policy at the side of Russia and
France: 1t does not mean the breaking up
of the Dreibund, but the reshaping of inter-
ests, to some extent, outside of it,.
The official newspapers are silent on the
subject; but the editor of one of the lead
ing government papers said: I'VE are still
waiting for our cue from above"
Confirmatory news has been obtained of
the report that the Reichstag, when it recon-
venes, will receive the naval bill and the
military reform trial bill. In regard to the
naval bill, however, the government will
encounter strong opposition from the Center
party. Through it's leader, Herr Lieber, 1t
sought to effect an understanding with the
chancellor, Prince Hohonelohe, but the eff
fort failed. The Center party wished for
promise that the Jesuit expulsion law would
be repealed, in exchange for which the
Center party engaged to support the naval
bill. But Prince HOhenlohe fatty refused,
and the naval bill cannot pass without the
votes of the Center party. The refusal of
Prince HohenlOhe to agree to the demands
of the CentriStS was solely due to the in
StructiOnS of the Emperor, who feels highly
indignant at the Popes encyclical in which
the reformation is represented as having
been an 'unholy rebellion" and in which
Prussian kings are roughly handled. Severe
comments on these passages have been
made by many Protestant clergymen and
leaders in Prussia, and their remarks were,
during the month of October, brought to the
attention of both the Empress and Emperor,
and greatly incensed them.
The Boersen Courier. leading financial
organ, says: I'VE are approaching famine
conditions. Victuals have risen in price to
such an extent that the sustenance of a
whole strata of the population is in doubt
Meat has become for the laboring classes.
thanks to the import prohibitions, an arti-
Gle of luxury hardly attainable, and our
poor crops have driven the prices of cereals
to such heights that not only the industrial
population and the dwellers in Cities but
even the. rustic population, excepting Inat
part of it belonging to the suffering Agra
rians, threatened in their existence. A
moment is approaching Wnen the/ govern
To in
those avenues of trade which are now ar
tificially clogged.
The Guelph party at Brunswick, at its
convention at Helmstedt this week. nom
mated candidates for the Reichstag. In
the whole duchy each candidate is pledged
to support the succession OF the Duke OF
Cumberland to the throne.
During the presence OF Emperor William
in the fiood-suffering districts of Silesia it
was remarked that the police made num-
berless house searches and seized many
thousands of Anarchist and Socialist
pamphlets and journals
Herr Felix Weingartner, director of the
Royal Opera Orchestra of Berlin, has be-
come insane from overwork, and will be
confined in a sanitarlum
The Conservatives will introduce bill in
the Reichstag fixing the age of electors at
thirty. instead of twenty-five, and provid-
ing for public, instead of secret ballot
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THANKSGIVING day will be celebrated in
Berlin on Nov. Is by a dinner and dance
at the Kaiserhof as usual and there win
he some informal speeches. The United
States ambassador, Mr. Andrew White, will
deliver one of them.
Ex-vice Consul General Zimmerman, of
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on board the North German Lloyd steamer
Spree.