The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-02
THE DANE
And Austrian
EXpulsions
TAI LCOIMHEDMANN
TALKED IN GE RMANY
Exports and Imports and
Other General Matters.

IeIIlui Jan. IL rom an INSIDE source
it is learned that another cabinet crisis
here is approaching. For some time
passed there have been serious diff
ferences of opinion between Emperor
William and the imperial chancellor,
Prince Hohenlohe. In two instances
the question of the highest military
court and the lippe-Detmold succession
case, his majesty yielded to some ex-
tent to the views of Prince Hohenlohe.
This, however, was done more because
of the emperors affection for the aged
chancellor, whom he calls uncle" in
private conversation and addresses by
the affectionate "du" (thou), than be-
cause Prince Hohenlohe's views con-
WINGED him.
In several other equally important
matters the princes views and inten-
tons have been overridden by the en-
peror and part of the cabinet, more
especially by DR.. Miguel, the vice-pres-
ident of the council of ministers and
minister of finance, the anti-strike bill,
the refusal to sanction the bill to ex-
tend the right of political association
and the explosions of Danes and Aus
TRANS from Germany, being instances of
this. Prince Hohenlohe particularly
disapproves OF the expulsions of Danes
| from North Schleswig as barbarous,
impolitic and useless; but they We're
approved by the emperor; and the
chancellor, although he has taken pains
not to show approval or these ruthless
measures, has yielded thus far to his
majesty's views.
The consequence of these ceaseless
expulsions, which were still continued
this week, have been to greatly en-
barras him, especially in the case of
German relations with Austria, and in
| duced the chancellor to address the
emperor a long autograph letter this
week, setting forth in detail the rea-
sons why he disapproves of the expul-
slons and why, IL the home and for
eign policy he has hitherto followed in
agreement with Emperor William, is to
| be pursued, it will be necessary to dis
continue the explosions. His majesty
| thus far has not replied to his letter,
but he is expected to do so verbally
early next week or soon after Prince
| Hohenlohe's return to Berlin.
Baron Won Koeller, the reactionary
ex-minister of the interior and govern
or of Schleswig- Holstein, is mainly re-
| sponsible for the system of explosions.
He is a bitter enemy of Prince Hohen-
lohe, to whom he attributes his down
fall couple of years ago. The situa-
| ton thus created is one in which the
| chancellor considers he cannot with
self-respect father the policy of the
empire, unless the emperor himself
calls = halt. which the people surround
| ing him do not believe he will do.
| There is a powerful clique working
| insiduously with the aim of rendering
the sitiation more acute and forcing
Prince Hohenlohe's retirement, when,
they believe, an out-and-out reaction
I oDhf Of mill u,
| temperance of Baron Won Zedlitz in a
| high position, after a disappearance
from public life during seven years
past, and at the direct command of his
| majesty.
| 1t Is adduced in support of this belief
that government circles will give as an
explanation of the emperors concur
renee in Baron Won Koeller's Wholesale
| expulslone in North SchlesWig that the
political situation there has been for
some time much worse than is publicly
known and that the network of a pro-
| Danish conspiracy has to be forcibly
uprooted in order to guarantee the Sc
curity Of the country, and 1t is further
asserted that the Prussian government,
in reply to an Interpolation early in the
session Of the Prussian diet will ad-
vance evidence Of this conspiracy.
But, in spite of this, all private re-
ports, newspaper reports and individual
reports agree in pointing out that the
situation prior to the explosions was
harmless.
The expulsion of the Danes is already
doing considerable harm to German
trade, and in Germany exporters are
bitterly complaining and are trying tc
oonciliate their Danish customers. Two
well known Berlin export firms have
sent an open letter to their Danish
clients, which Illustrates the feeling OF
the commercial classes here. The letter
says:
I'm view Of the excited state of feel
Ing produced among the Danish people
by the measures of the Prussian gov
eminent, we beg to point out that in
wide circles among the Germans this
excitement is considered perfectly Just
1f1able. Together with our friends and
The great majority of the German ma
| ton we shall leave nothing undone tc
| endeavor to bring about a repeal OF
the present severe measure. In the
meanwhile, we beg you to use your
utmost efforts to induce the Danish
people not to transfer to the German
nation their resentment against the
Prussian government
A significant fact this week was the
conversion of the Kreuz Zeitung to pro
American views, which is understood
to have been due to the direct interior
ence of the government. The Kreu2
Aeitung, which, as the leading organ OF
the conservative party, and exertine
vast influence in court, official and army
circles, has tended all along to main
tain the spirit of unfriendliness to-
wards the United States has now. sud
denly, without giving any reason for its
change of opinion, become a powerful
advocate of better and more intimate
political and commercial relations be-
tween the two countries. In a long and
carefully worded editorial, the Kreuz
Zeitung, for the first time, does Justice
TO American valor during the recent
war with Spain, pointing out how a
good understanding in many ways is
desirable and expressing the fervent
nope that such an arrangement will he
arrived at and that both nations will
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