New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28

80 ou' she got her money IN pa,; 60,
80. broke out Russia has cortrao,as
scribod =, one OF these was suh-
the -. DerIih' Amsterdam and Brussels
difao,,,4, =" rarls-but the latter with great
NNi'', anc under pressure from, thA 1891,
press Al this hour NJ. WIFI. -, eN't'o.'G
eenlus' has arranged for a new IT,, - 90
$1,000 marks (or something mora +hr Geo
'.S' 10 De raised IN Berlin by popular sub-
Inc terms understood IN ba
guaranteed until the close of the war
'.'tn the loan 20 be funded on a lover ,ntora.,
prooabiy per cent And this will NOT h.
i@SI russian loan before the close of tba xrar
m Berlin is TO furnish
,,,- G. "eF'nan tariff treaty. after hang
Iie loF long. has been agreed upon on both
- ~ signed by Count Bulow for GERMANY
""a ny M. Witte for Russia This is ano+ber
@'u aii important tie between the two countries
onaer the old treaty Germany had q .,u .,,r,
OF hussia's foreign trade (about 5000 600 Oao or+
- 'oIaI or S6OO.O00.000) and under the rAxv
ue"'S TINS percentage is likely to grow. for
"''e mas granted German industrial articles
unprecedented advantages Trade be+wa.,,
hNuss'a and France the other hand desnita
many French plants on that score. has re-
NAMED Insignificant all along. II is NOT foo
nun 10 say that this new Russo German COM
''4ai treaty is a matter of the greatest in
NN'SSlii, anu QOuDtlesS GERMANY will
aNali herself 10 the full of the opportunities
mus oNered her. After the close of the war
Russia will need enormous imports of raw sturfs
ana manufactures 10 put herself and her ruinea
industry on their legs once more And IN the
mean While' until the close of the war with
'"pah' germany will continue to be the favored
customer For several months past German ex-
ports to Russia have been higher than they ever
We're before, and the frontier towns have been
eo'seu Win German goods. due in part to the
complete standstin OF Russian industry
1hen, observe the shrewd manner in which the
Kaiser has made OF the present situation
Against English and American sympathy with
Japan has stood out in bold relief German Rus
sophillsm, official and unofficial The Kaiser has
not missed a single opportunity of showing
NlchoIas ii and his Russians how kindly he
ieeis toward them- 1t Is needless TO rehearse
here his encouraging dispatches and letters, his
messages TO his Finland regiment" etc, and
the effect of 1t all cannot fail to have made the
desired impresson Most of the influential Ger
man papers. excepting those of radical Liberal
ism. have likewise sided all along with Russia
both editorially and in their reports from the
seat OF war
Lastly. to mention the Koenigsberg trial and
the events which preceded IT, 1t is something
which no German of Liberal tendencies can do
NANi4o1N bIOSIllHS nut Is required IN the plCt-
ure because ii shows better than anything else
could to what lengths the Kaiser and his gov
eminent are willing TO go in order TO reknit the
once broken friendship with Russia.
Cable dispatches now ard then have told OF
sundry interpretations made. within a year
two past in the Reichstag ana Prussan Diet.
on the subject of expelling or delivering UP 10
the Russian authorities and women Of Rus
Sian birth. students some OF them at German
universities. others tradesmen or belonging 70
humber walks of life, on the plea OF having
conspired against the Russian government or
of having proved obnoxious TO the German au-
thorities themselves. No doubt among all these
persons. aggregating several hundreds. there
have been some undeserving of sympathy; the
overwhelming majority. however. were persons
decent and we'll meaning enough in every re-
spect but intensely dissatisfied with the pre-
vailing political conditions in their country.
Russia, and guilty OF some act other which
had made them suspects in the eyes Of the late
Minister Plehve. By the friendly services OF
Prussia, NJ. Plehve was enabled TO send these
persons where they could do mora harm. to
Siberia or into dungeons in the interior of Rus
STA These friendly services OF the Prussian
government endeared the latter. OF course. to the
powers that be in Russia 1t was fine stroke
Of policy, no doubt, but there is no Disgusting
the fact that IL has. nevertheless. not found the
approval OF many members OF the Reichstag.
who called it by much harsher name
The grooming friendly service thus rendered
Russia by the Prussian government took the
shape of a trial in Koenigsberg. large city not
far from the Russian border line The de-
PENDANTS were Germans and the charge against
them was high treason and lese majesty com
United against His Majesty the Car Nicholas ii
by fomenting discomfort within his dominions
and by writing and then sending across the
Russian border all sorts OF pamphlets news
papers books etc. containing lbellous and dis
respectful references the said Car and his
government melting to riot, revolution assassl-
nation and general discomfort Doubtless this
case and some of the surprising turns II took
have been spoken of in the regular dispatches
sent from here to America, and the details can
be SHARED But one or two of the features in
this trial were novel and one might almost
say amusing that they deserve mention
The charge of lese majesty and high treason
could legally only hold If it could be proved
that there WAS law and practice in Russia pun
isbinp similar offences committed on Russian
soil against the German Emperor and govern
rnent The trial however had proceeded al
most a full week before the court permitted
the defence 10 breach this point. Then 1t was
discovered that there was no such reciprocity
That ought to have ended the whole Tiai ior
the defendants could now no longer De con-
,,ictad NJ the crimes with which they were
otareed R,,t IL did not The court. under an
obsolescent law. convicted at least several of
the defendants Of belonging TO a secret society
q society the chief aims and purposes OF which
had not been openly declared TO the Frussiah
authorities That was, in fact, all thal could
he done to the prisoners under German law
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