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upon in rather sarcastic spirit. The Liberal press. though, has adopted, generally speaking, a fair and more neutral tone. The Vossiche Zeitung printed an editorial in which it inti- mated it wished the United States speedy success, and referred to the "unbroken friendship existing for so many years between the two coun- tries"
 Other Liberal papers of importance, like the Magdeburg zeitung and the Weser Zeitung, express themselves in the same vein.
 Referring to the failure of the late sugar conference and to the agreement between France and the United States regarding tariff reductions, the Kreuts Zeitung says: Should America refuse to grant those tariff reductions to Ger many and the other European states, in spite of the most favored nation treaties, there will be serious compH- cations. To refuse this to Germany would be all the more unfair since America was made to share, when we concluded our commercial treaties of 1892, in the large reductions that were then in force, without being asked to grant us any equivalent"
 It Is a well-known fact In diplomatic circles in Berlin that the relations be- tween the regent officer of Lippo-D Det- mold and the Emperor of Germany, have been extremely strained since the Emperors brother-in-law, Prince Adolph of Schaumberg Hippo was busted from the office, owing to the final deci- sion rendered against him by the court of arbitration, presided over by the King of Saxony, and alleged instances of the Emperor's illwill toward the now regent of LippoDetmold have been current here for some time past. But matters have not assumed pass which makes the affair one of national magnitude.
 Count Ernest, the present regent, has been repeatedly slighted by the Elm peror lately, in such way as to have induced him to seek redress before the forum of the Bundesrath, before which the Emperor is no more than the regent of Lippo-Detmold The regent of Lip po-Detmold has, therefore, brought his sovereign's complaint formally before the Bundesrath, begging that the Elm peror may be held to render to the re- gent of Lippo- -Detmold, the measure of respect which the constitution of the Empire says is his due. The regent, at the same time, sent strongly worded detailed autograph letters to all the other rulers of Germany, in which, af ter setting forth the instances of seri- ous slight to which he claims to have been subjected, he summons all the German sovereigns to see that Justice is done him. He also says that what has happened to him may happen to them next and that the Emperor, by outraging the principle of legitimacy in his case, endangers the very founda- tion on which the thrones of all the German soyereigns rest.
 The Emperor has recalled the Prus- sian representatives at the court of Detmold The last straw, the one which induced the Regent of Lippo- Detmold to appeal to the Bundesrath was brought about by the refusal of the officers of the DetmoId garrison to pay to the members of the family of the Regent the honors the latter consid- cred due, whereupon he vainly ap- pealed to the general in command, and the latter referred the whole matter to Emperor William. who sent the Regent the following reply: My general has orders to render to the Regent what belongs to the Regent. nothing more. As for the rest, I object to the tone in which you have allowed yourself to couch your letter.
 A comprehensive bill, providing for number of important changes in the German army is still being drafted by the Ministers of War and Finance, but