New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-04

RUSSIA TRIES TO RAISE a LOAN OF 600.
100000 MARKS IN PARIS

FOR BITTER FeaNco GERMAN RELATIONS
LING on FIRNER GROUND THAN EVER.
Berlin. Jan. S.--The Artillery BILL which will
be laid before the Rechstag soon after the Cham
Der resumes its si;tinss. will propose an addition
to the military budget Of 100000 marks Military
authorities who are permitted to speak on the sub
| Ject and whose opinion Is worth having deny the
current reports that the impending reorganization
OF the artillery IL due to the Canet quck-fring gun
being adopted for the French Army. The
German field gun was tested at Xrupp's In the
presence OF the Kaiser and special staff Of off,
GERS more than year ago. was approved as the
most potent field piece yet invented, and has been
since under constant construction The Kaiser
! keeps In close touch with Krupp. at whose works
guns on the new model. bur Of different calibre.
are rapidly being manufactured and tested.
Leading Berlin banking firms concur in crediting
! the report thar the Russian Government has been
negotiating new loan in Paris. amounting 10
less than 6Oo,Ooo.eo marks. Private advices from
st. Petersburg. supported by letters from Paris
at first mentioned an even greater sum. soo.c0"o
and added that the French bankers had refused
TO consider 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 debarred from raising n
other before April. 1881. Some tentative action
toward negotiating with Berlin and Frankfort
houses has been going since the reluctance OF
the French bankers to deal became known at st.
Petersburg but these overtures were not received
favorably. 40 the Russian Finance Minister has
resumed communication with Paris firms. The
ude to the resumption Of specie payments by
Russia. provided nothing happens in Europe to
endanger the Cars present peace policy.
Apropos Of the now known tendency OF Nicholas
II toward liberal and pacific regime. advces from
Warsaw and other centres in Poland concur in
speaking Of marked change in the restrictive
measures enforced against the people by the
thorites. greater freedom being allowed TO the
press and the public. A notable instance OF the
change Of spirit In the Russian authorities is seen
in the correspondence OF the ST. Petersburg "Novos
Vremya' which has opened it's columns TO ad-
vocacy of the Cancellation of Poland. larger de-
gree of liberation for the Catholic Poles, and the
cessation Of restrictive measures throughout those
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 there
fore significant.
The first reception at Court OF the French
Ambassador the Marquis de Noaes, is fixed for
the third week in January. 1t is understood that
the Kaiser intends to mark the occasion as an
especially brilliant Court function The substitu-
for the bourgeois NJ Herbette whom Court '' and
Kaiser alike detested may do much to smooth
diplomatic relations between Paris and Berlin.
Berlin as we'll as Vienna Court circles have re-
Gently been eagerly watching the developments Of
a scandal connected with the career OF the Aus
tria1 Crown Prince Rudolph. who. with his mis-
tress. the Baroness Marie Vetsera, committed SUI.
eide at Meyerling in January. 1889. 1t Is known
that the Emperor Francis Joseph has paid enor.
nous sums TO meet the responsibilities which his
son left behind him and to conceal some Of the
lamentabe results of his dsordery life. Some cor
respondence which the Archduke left fell into the
hands of man who did not scruple to have part
OF 1t PHOTOGRAPHED and sent to the Emperor with
the alternative being publication, AS the letters
contained some frank criticism OF the Emperor's
throne. the affair became matter Of reference to
the Cabinet. Arrests and legal prosecution I'm
for a time but It is understood that there will
be no public scandal, the matter having been ar
ranged privately.
The members OF the Berlin Produce Exchange
began business yesterday under the new Bourse
law. which went into effect January l. a free
association instead Of close organization, as for
merry, but very little business done. The Ber-
lin Association exchanged communications with
the free associations formerly the bourses) Of
Halle Stettin. Brunswick and other centres, and
some future transactions were recorded. The Ma
tional Zeitung applauds the action of the German
bourses and declares that II was necessary Tor
defene TO a as 'nf the ukr the
an article under the caption, The Fight Begun
frightened the result of their folly, assist
the Government to Chamber down from the position
diets that the fight will ultimately end in the victory
of the mercantile community.
Guy Thompson OF Yale University and his wife,
formerly Miss Lucy Uh assisted United States
Ambassador I'h and his wife m receiving tho
American colony on Thursday: great crush OF
guests present. Popular airs were played by a
band stationed in the dinng-l hail. The Rev. DR..
Dickle. pastor Of the American church received the
Americans in Berlin on New Years Day.
Lieutenant Count Uekull ron Gyllenband who
was wounded in the forehead In a duel with Baron
Won Wangenheim. secretary OF the Prusslan Lega-
ton at Stuttgart, December 81 is in a dying
dtIon. Baron Won Wans'nheim. who was also
in the abdomen. IS progressing favoraby.
His wound is healing ap1 the prospects that
he will The extremely slight chances u
the cessation Of duellng In Germany may be judged
by the fact that the ,lel between the Count and
the Baron was umpireS by General Won Schott. the
OF the troops at Stuttgart. and that
DR. Won Hoeben. the Prussan Minister TO WIZ
tcmberg acted as Wsngenheim's second. After tho
duel Minister Won IIolleben came TO Berlin 20
rate the details of tie AFFAIR 10 the Emperor.