The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-03
A SURPRISE IS EXPECTED
In the Strategics of the German
Army Maneuvers.
A COURTESY TO SUMNER
The Attentions Shown Germans During
the Cuban Campaign Are
Still Remem-
bsred.
Copyrighted 1883 by Associated Press.

ers, which will begin tomorrow and
end Sept. Is, will be of more than usual
interest and Importance. The opera
lions Will be conducted on the same
grounds and We're largely patterned
after the Napoleonic campaign of 1906.
Half of the troops engaged, the 18th
corps, will approach the opposing
forces, the 18th corps, by forced marches
through the Black Forest passes. After
striking the plains the corps will oper-
ate along both sides of the Enz river
The decisive action will proba bly, occur
in Wurtemberg between Stuttgart and
Ludwigsburg. Big reviews at Carls-
Iuhe, Strasburg and elsewhere will pre-
cede the maneuvers. Emperor william
strongly hopes to see some strategic
surprises.
A noteworthy feature of the maneuv-
ers will be the presence of a number of
distinguished military men from other
countries. Both the German and Rus
sian governments have shown the
greatest readiness this year in allowing
each others officers to view the army
movements of their respective coun-
tries. A number of German officers will
be at the Russian nlaneuvers, lasting
i've weeks, and the number of Russians
who will attend the German maneuvers
courtesy is shown by both sides. The
United States military attache at Ber-
lin, Major H. Tallen. also received an
invitation to attend the Russian man
euvers, but he will be unable ito go, al
he will attend the Austrian maneuvers
this week, being also accredited to the
government of Austria Hungary.
Thence he will go direct to the German
maneuverS.
Another act of unusual courtesy is
the permission given Col. Samuel S.
Sumner, the military attache of the
United States embassy at London, to
participate in the German maneuVers.
This is rather contrary to strict ETH
quette, as he is accredited to another
government, but Emperor William, re-
Numbering the attentions shown by
Colonel Sumner during the Cuban cam
paign to Count Won Goetzen. the form
er military attache of the German en-
bassy at Washington, and other Ger
man officers who accompanied the
United States army during the late
war; quickly granted the desired per-
mission.
His majesty also permitted Major
John NJ. Woodbury., sent to study the
sanitary system of the German army
in the field, to pursue his studies with
the 9Th army corps during the maneuv-
ers in Silesia, this corps being unus-
ually we'll equipped in regard to SAM
tary arrangements.
A new feature of the maneuvers this
year will be practical tests of automo-
biles, of which number have been
specially made for army purposes by an
AK les Chapelle firm.
The complete surrender of the gov
eminent to the agrarians has had the
effect of increasing the confidence of
the latter. The agrarian mouthpiece,
the Deutsch Tage Zeitung, commenting
n
the diet. went SO far as to thank the
delegates who had just insolentlY re-
jected the emperor's pet measure, say
ing: 1.-The long-expected, hoped-for,
begged-for sop to the friends of the
canal has not been given In spite of
all intriguing, lying and crushing, the
word has not been spoken
The frequently inspired Post says;
There Is no doubt the introduction of
the bill was a grave political mistake.
The paper then proceeds to formulate
rule that the government hereafter
will best find out whether the conserVa-
tives are willing to support a measure
before introducing it. In view of the
fact that the government declares its
intention to reintroduce the canal Dill
at the next session of the diet, these
agrarian newspapers say they VIII con-
tinue their opposition to the measure.
The liberal and larger part of the center
papers continue to bemoan the defeat OF
the bill and express astoniShment at the
complete collapse of the government, A
leading center organ, the Cologne Nolks
Zeitung, says: 1T would require the
power of Mark Twain to adequately
draw the recent crisis. The dispropor-
ton between the big words and the
small deeds of the government is too
glaring."
The Cologne Gazette exclaims: IF
Bismarck had only lived to see this!'
The Voerwaerts and other socialist
papers attack Prince Hohenlohe, the
German imperial chancellor, remlndlng
him that he has not kept his solemn
pledges made in the reichstag to see
that the Prussian law in regard to the
affiliation of political clubs be rescinded
and threatening to take action in the
reiehstag.
How their victory has puffed up the
Prussian agrarians was frequently
manifested in the newspapers this week
The Deutsche Agrar Correspondent ad-
yocates the extension of the provisions
of the anti-strike bill to agricultural
Jaborers, forbidding the latter to strike
under any circumstances under penalty
of Imprisonment in Jail and corporal
punishment.
Another agrarian paper attributes the
trouble with farm hands to too high
nav. leading to drunkenness and Oppo-
sition. and advises the restoration of the
whip as a remedy.
The general opinion expressed here Is
that war between Great Britain and
the Transvaal is almost unavoidable.
Many articles from the pens of we'll
known writers appeared this week in
that vein, Nearly all sympathiZe with
the Beers. The tone of the Independent
press is about the same. There is no
doubt that the government has resolved
to abstain from active interference.
This fact, which the correspondent of
the associated press has repeatedly had
from an authentic source, is again cor
roborated this week. The correspond
ent's informant said that reliable infor-
nation which reached the government
for months past made 1t evident that
its opinion about the Pretoria govern
ment had to be revised, II would be
neither wise nor TO Germany's interest
10 take sides against Great Britain in
an attempt to right certain wrongs, He
added that the German government. OF
course, would be sincerely sorry to sea
war break out in the Transvaal 1t was