The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-24
GEAR And KAISER MEET AT SEA
HISTORIC RESULTS MAY FOLLOW
THIS CONFERENCE.

German Emperor Credited with Master
stroke Against tho Policy TO Isolate
Him-secrecy Thrown Around Cars
Trtp-Onc Grand Duke with Him.
Special Gable Dispatches 10 THE SUN.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 23.-The meeting OF
the Car and the German Emperor to-day is
regarded as a greater stroke OF policy on
the Kaiser's part than his dramatic APP
pearance In the arena Of Moroccan affairs.
II Is known that he Is awake to what he con-
siders an attempt by the Powers to Isolate
Germany.
There is the greatest anxiety to know
whether any historic utterance will follow
the banquet on the imperial yacht Hohen-
zollern tonight, which, it is now stated
will be given near the Bergo coast of'F1nland.
The Car has definitely arranged to return to
Peterhof on Wednesday.
All the arrangements for the Cars trip
were carried out with extreme secrecy.
There Ia no question that his Ma jesty. had
it been possible, would have gone and re-
turned without allowing the fact of his
trip to have become known. AS 1t is, there
is little that can be learned beyond the
facts already cabled to THE Sun, but there
are many conflicting rumors.
According to one OF these the c Ear is
accompanied only by Grand Duke Michael
| Alexandrovitch and Court Minister Freede-
RIGS. Another report states that Count
| Benckendorff. Marshal Of the Palace; Adj
miral Birileff, the new Minister OF Marine;
| Baron Heinzer, the German Naval Attache,
and others are in the party. So far as
! known Count Lansdorff, Minister of
| Foreign Affairs. does not accompany his
! Majesty. nor is the Foreign Office other
! wise represented, from which some infer
that the meeting Of the Emperors is not con-
cerned with international politics.
According to a high official, speaking
unofficially. Emperor William telegraphed
from Sweden that he wished to see the
| Car for the purpose OF convincing him
personally OF the sincerity of Germany's
policy toward Russia" He invited the
Car to fix meeting place, which, he said
was immaterial. He himself would will
| ingly come to Russian waters.
| Finally it was agreed to meet at Borgo,
which is famous as the place where in 1909
the Finnish Diet declared in favor OF a
union with Russia. There is no harhor at
Borgo, and the Polar Star and Hohen-
zollern must lie off the coast 1t is UNDER
! STOOD tnaC IN dQultlDH W Uut IhtStius WHO
evening. which will take place on the Ho-
henzollern, the Emperors will meet again
Tomorrow morning on board the Gar s
yacht.
LONDON, July 23-The meeting of the
Emperors, which was exclusively announced
to be impending by THE Suns st. Peters
burg correspondent on Thursday last, and
which was telegraphed throughout Europe
in, roptar nj
political opinion Remarkable privacy was
observed in arranging the interview, ano
the consequent apparently genuine ignor'
ance was probably answerable for the de.
mails, official and unofficial, which have
been put forward.
The Kaiser's initiative now seems to be
beyond question and there is a suggestion
in some quarters that the Gar found hi
invitation somewhat embarrassing. He re-
allied the stir such meeting would make II
Europe, and the far reaching deduct ion'
that would be drawn from it, and he sough
counsel from his uncles before answering
It is stated that Grand Dukes Alexi
and Vladimir were closeted with thei
. nephew for hours after the receipt Of thu
Kaiser's message discussing the answer
So far az public knowledge is concerned
| the QCtual puTpOSc VI liC ihSS'AA6 40 -
, much matter of surmise now as 1t wa
when it was first announced.
The SUNS St. Petersburg corresponds mt
quotes high diplomatic parsonage a
saving the meeting was sought by tn
Kaiser, who expressed desire to meet hi
friend the Car. 1t Is evident the latter
could not refuse such a request, however
COMPROMISING its accep lance might be.
r,- Erpn
baps. inspired to some extent, by Il
desire to counteract in the minds of the
, Gar and the Russian people, the efiec
/ of the cordially displayed by German,
, toward Prince Arisugawa. who repres.
sented the Mikado at the wedding OF thu
German Crown Prince, of the extensive
, participation OF German capitalists ir
l the last Japanese loan, and Of the hostil
, action of a section Of the German pres
n toward Russia. By his selection OF tn
: rendezvous the Car, has done everythin
o possible to give the visit private char
o acter, in order that 1t may be regarde
@ as an act of international courtesy rathe
than one Of political mo nent.
Q Officials in st. Petersburg, replying t
Q gu questions that the meeting will Great
Q n most unfavorable impression in Francs
n insisted that the Franco-Russian allianc
: continues the basis Of Russia 8 foreign polio
,, and that the conference Of the Emperor
3 can in no way be intended to damage til
: alliance.
n Editorials in the morning papers on tt
!. visit OF the Kaiser to the Gar do little mol
n than dwell upon the importance OF Il
n possibilities involved. They display
: tendency, however, to regard the NEE
IL ing with some uneasiness.
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