The age-herald., 1898-11-20
BILLS SUDDEN.
 CHANGE OF ROUTE SaE the Appropriateness Of a Visit
 to Spain. HEALTH OF THE EMPRESS
Officially Given Out as Reason for AbaH-
 dOnmelt of Programme.
ABSORBING TOPIC OF THE PRESS
The Lippe-Delmond Case Occupying a Prominent Place in the Newspa- pers of Germany Coming
 Session of Reichstag.

Berlin, November 19.-Emperor William s
 sudden abandonment of his intention to visit Spanish ports on his return to Ger
 many and his determination to go home
 by way of the Adriatic sea landing at
 Pola and taking the train there for Pots-
 dam has given rise to considerable specula-
 tion as to the real motive for his change Of
 program. The official explanation giving
 the health of the empress as the sole req
 son for his majesty's rapid return is only
 partially accepted here though 1t is well
 known that the empress suffers severely from sea sickness and dreaded the passage ac. oss the bay of Biscay, especially in view of the change in temperature and the I prospects of stormy weather.
 The impression among leading politicians, however is that the state of home politics and the Appropriateness of his proposed visit to Spain at the present juncture main ly influenced the emperor's decision The imperial chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe, rep resented to his majesty the necessity for an early opening of the Reichstag in view of the mass of work that body has to get through and suggested November 29 or De- cember for the opening ceremonies Elm peror William thereupon decided to return
 
 directly.
 The discussion of the governments anti strike measure promises to make the ses- sions of the Reichstag lively.
 If is suggested in some quarters that Emperor Williams roundabout detour rom Pola to Potsdam was dictated by plan which since the assassination of the Elm press of Austria and the discovery of a plot against the emperors life at Alexan- dria. Egypt has governed his majesty s movements.
 The municipality of Potsdam, where the imperial family will reside until the new year. is preparing warm reception TOT their majesties.
 Lippe-DeImoId Case
 The absorbing topic in the German press during the past week has been the Lippe. Delmold case. The verbatim pupllca.ion U the documents, which hrst appeared III u Vienna paper and. which were afterwaros copied by the entire German press, enapled | the nation generally to form an intelligent | idea of the whole matter and since, in the | continued absence of the emperor, the gov ernment has deemed 1t best to keep silence, l the comments of the newspapers have been both varied and interesting. In the verpa- tim reprint the regents original letter or complaint Is shown to have been coucneo
 in very respectful, calm language, and tnat
 the emperor had no reason whatever TO
 reply by the curt, insulting telegram, for bidding the regent ever to address hlm III similar manner again.
 According to reports from those who are near to the emperor, his majesty has lately changed his opinion of the whole case, and now regrets treating the regent so haught- fly and allowing the case to go as far as it has and becoming national scandal. It is too late now however, to stop the
 matter and the bundesrath will take up the ca SC at an early opportunity. It must deal with two points-the regents formal com plaint against the emperor and the protest of the emperors brother-in-law, Prince Adolph of Schamburg-Lippe, against the adoption of the law of succession, which l declared the regents lawful issue entitled
 to succeed to the throne of Lippe This
 protest is held to be purely of a vexatious
 nature, inasmuch as the court of arbitra-
 tion, presided over by the King of Saxony,
 declared that the Schamburg-Lippe line is
 only third in the order of succession, and
 Prince Adolph therefore, has only re-
 mote interest in the succession.
 Practically the entire German press sides
 with the regent. A leading centrist organ,
 the Cologne Volkes Zeitung, says:
 Was Badly Advised
 Emperor William was badly advised when he sent the despatch to the regent, and what happened subsequently, is not ap- proved by public opinion. What happens to the regent of little Lippe today may tomorrow happen to the prince regent of Bavaria or the kings of Saxony and Wur- | temburg. A very distinct declaration was made at Moscow, at the time of the czar' s | coronation, by Prince Luis of Bavaria, that | the German princes are not vassals but allies of the emperor. It is interesting to | the nation that they remain so."
 | A leading Bavaran journal the Angus | burg Abend Zeitung declares that few | persons in the German empire side with | the emperor in this matter which will | doubtless be discussed in the reichstag. | The wholesale expulsions from northern | Schleswig Silesa and Posen are in conso- | nance with the resolutions adopted by the | Prussian cabinet in spite of the opposition | of the imperial chancellor last summer. l The Austrian government has thus far not | protested against the expulsions of Aus | trians from Silesia and Posen, but the Dan- | ish government has, although no reply oi | any kind has been made to its remon- | strances. The Danish press has taken uI | the matter and is urging the Danes to stor | buying German goods. The Russian | government nevertheless determines to continue the expulsion for national reasons
 The trial of a French spy, Isidor Decoq | for betraying important military secrets to France has opened before the imperia
 court at Leips!o. Deceq's accomplces have l not been traced, but the evidence points tc | German army men being implicated. The | spy was sentenced to six years imprison | ment to ten years loss of civil rights ant