The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-24
GEAR LEAVES SUDDENLY
 TO CONFER WITH KAISER
EMPERORS WILL MEET IN FIN ISH WATERS OFF PORT
 OF BORGO.

Diplomatic and Court Circles DiscOn- certed by the Unexpectedness of the Affair on the Eve of the Peace Com ferenee--Czar Accompanied by His Brother, Grand Duke Michael Alex andrOvitch and a Large Suite-Indi- cation That Conference Was Ar ranged For Personally Between the MOnarchs.
 St. Petersburg, July 23.-On the eve of the peace conference and with sud- denness already disconcerting the diplo- Inatic and court circles, the emperor left Peterhof to-day on board the imperial yacht Polar Star for a conference with Emperor William who is cruising on the Hohenzollern in Finnish waters.
 The first interview of the sovereigns was expected to take place this evening off the Finnish port of Borgo, at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland, near Hell singfors. This will be followed by another interview tomorrow, after which Emperor Nicholas will return to St. Petersburg and Emperor William will continue his cruise.
 The emperor is accompanied by his brother, Grand Duke Michael Alexan- drovitch, and considerable suite, in- cluding Count Benkendorff, marshall of the court; General Baron w. Freder- icks, minister of the imperial house; Count Heyden, chief of the imperial chancellerie; Admiral Biriloff, minister of marine: Captain Von Essen, who commanded the battleship Sevastopol during the siege of Port Arthur; Cap tain Chagin, who commanded the AL mag, the only cruiser of Admiral Ro- jestvensky;s fleet to reach Vladivostok * after the battle of the Sea of Japan; Captain Hintze, naval attache of the German embassy: also a party of cour- tiers and the emperors escort of sailors and marines, with a guard commanded by Admiral Neeloff. ~.4.. 2 It is noticeable that there is no repre- sentative of the Russian foreign office among the emperor's entourage, nor is the German ambassador, Count Alycns leben, on board the Polar Star. This gives color to a report that the meet ing was arranged between the two em- perors directly without recourse to the usual diplomatic channels, Emperor William suggesting the rendezvous by telegraph from Hernoes and Sweden. The idea, the report says, met with the emperor's favor but the final arrange ments were only completed yesterday and some members of the imperial fam fly were hastily commanded last night to accompany his majesty.
 Many diplomatists were taken com pletely by surprise by the news of to- day, the runors that a meeting was contemplated which were current since Friday having met with the fiattest de- nials in official quarters and the Ger man ambassador having stated that he / knew nothing of any such plans being on foot. .,.2s
 Emperor Williams action was in- stantly connected with the Moroccan question and admiration for his polit- icaI astuteness in realizing his oppor- tunities was expressed on all sides.
 Like the last meeting between Elm peror Nicholas and Emperor William at a hunting seat in Russian Poland, where the European and eastern situa- tions were discussed between the :, strokes of a game of billiards and Rus fhof hn haI m anxiety regarding her western frontier while engaged with the Japanese, the conferences in the cabins of the Hohen- zollern and Polar Star will be entirely informal and probably without secre- taries or other witnesses, unless per- haps Grand Duke Michael Alexandra witch should be a participant.
 There is no set programme of subjects for discussion aside from general con sideration of the factors in the present conference affecting the two empires, but 1t can be stated that the coming meeting of the Russo-Japanese plenipo- tentiaries will occupy a place in the foreground.
 The action of Emperor William in seeking conference at this moment is B5uSldl luteIpIeteu dS 1h dSSuEdllCe of his moral support of Russia in the coming pourparlers at Washington and Portsmouth and to show that German participation in the recent Japanese loan was not mark of the alienation of German sympathy for Russian En- peror william. whose keen interest in the lessons of the Rnsso-Japanese war is well known has also taken advant- age of the occasion to discuss the de- tails with eye witnesses and the pres ence of the naval officers who distin- guished themselves in the far east is due to his special request fr
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