The age-herald., 1899-09-03
MANEUVERS OF
 THE GERMAN ARMY American Experts WiIl Watch the For
 GigneFS' Tactics. SOME UNUSUAL C0URTESlES Emperor William HOnOrS United States Military AttaCh0 iu London. INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF THE ISLAND Complete Surrender of the Government to the Agrarians Commented Upon
 With Great Glee by the
 Party's Organs
SOME UNUSUAL COURTESIES
INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF THE ISLAND

Berlin, September 2.-The army maneuv- CTS, which will begin tomorrow and end September Ia, will be of more than usual interest and importance. The operations will be conducted on the same ground and will be largely patterned after the Napol- comic campaign of 1895. Half the troops en- gagged will approach the opposing forces by forced marches through the Black forest passes; after striking the plains the corps will operate along both sides of the river, The decisive action will probably occur in Wurtemburg between Stuttgart and Lud- wigsburg. Big reviews at Carlsruhe, Strassburg and elsewhere will precede the mancuvers Emperor William strongly hopes to see some fine strategic work.
 Both the German and Russian govern ments have shown the greatest readiness this year in allowing each others officers to view the army movements of their re- spective countries. A number of German officers will be at the Russian maneuvers, lasting five weeks, and the number of Rus sians who will attend the German maneuv- CTS will be larger than ever before.
 Will Watch Russian Tactics
 The United States military attache at Berlin, Major H. T. Allen, also received an invitation to attend the Russian maneuvers but he will be unable to go as he will attend the Austrian maneuvers this week and thence he will go direct to the German maneuvers. Another act of un- usual courtesy is the permission given to Colonel Samuel s. Summer, the military at- tache of the United States embassy at Lon- don, to participate in the German maneuv- CTS.
 This is rather contrary to strict etiquette, as he Is accredited to another government. but Emperor William, remembering the at tentions shown by Colonel Summer during the Cuban campaign to Count von Goet- zen, former military attache of the Ger man embassy at Washington, and other German officers who accompanied the United States army during the late war; quickly granted the desired permission. His majesty also permitted Major John NJ. Woodbury sent to study the sanitary sys tenn of the German army in the field, to pursue his studies with the Sixth army corps during the maneuvers in Siesia.
 A new feature of the maneuvers this year will be practical tests of automobiles, of which a number have been made espec- ially for army purposes.
 The Governments Surrender
 
 ment to the Agrarians has had the effect of increasing the confidence and rapaci- ousness of the latter. The Agrarian mouth piece the Deutsche Tages Zettung, com menting jubilantly on the fact that the government in closing the decree, went so far as to thank the delegates who had just insolently rejected the emperor's pet meas ure says:
 "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 would best first find out whether the conserva- tives are willing to support a measure be- fore introducing. In view of the fact that the government declares its intention to re- introduce the canal bill at the next session of the diet, the Agrarian newspapers say they will continue the opposition to the measure.
 Transvaal yfr Unavoidable The German general opinion expressed here is that war between Great Britain and the Transvaal is almost unavoidable. Many articles from the pens of well-known writers have appeared this week in that vein. Nearly all sympathize with the Boers. The tone of the hdependent press is about the same There is no doubt, if the government is not exactly friendly to Great Britain in this quarrel, but it has resolved to abstain from active interfer- ence. This fact which the correspondent of the Associated Press has repeatedly had from an authentic source, is again cor roborated this week. The correspondent informant said that reliable information which has reached the government for months past made it evident that it's opin- ion about the Pretoria government had to be revised. It would be neither wise nor to Germanys interests to take sides against Great Britain in an attempt to right certain wrongs He added that the German government, of course, would be sorry to see war break out in the Trans vaal It was natural to feel for brave Iittla naonla in such a struggle hut thence