The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-05
WEEK HAS BEEN ONE OF GREAT ANXIETY Kaiser is Said to Be More Than Usually Grumpy GERMANY STANDS ALONE A scapegoat Must Be Found to shoul- der Responsibility for Condition. Chancellor von BueIow May
 Suffer.
GERMANY STANDS ALONE
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.

Special Cable to The Age-Herald by Nal
 colm Clarke. Copyright 1907, by W. R.
 Hearst.
 Berlin. May 1.-The past week has been one of considerable anxiety to the Kaiser for all newspaper reports to the contrary, the tumble of Prince Eitel Friedrich was a very nasty one, and for several days the young mans condition was most alarming
 This accident, added to his worrying at the success of King Edward in Latin countries, has made his majesty more than usual grumpy
 The Kaiser realizes that Germany Is standing alone in Europe, that 1t is los ing It's leading position among the powers, and that with the growth of the peace movement the fear of the German army will rapidly disappear.
 Some scapegoat will have to be found, somebody must be made to shoulder the blame for all this and there are many who predict that Chancellor von Buelow's days as pilot of the ship of state are numbered.
 The Kaiser will shortly begin to travel, however, and there Is not a person at court who does not pray that he may return in a happier mood than his pres ent state of mind.
 His intended visit to England is said to have been postponed indefinitely.
 Nearing the hospitable shores of Amer ica, some eight hundred miles outside of ,.andy Hook, three hundred Austrian singers are afoat on a fast liner.
 They are members of Vienna Maenner- gesangverein. the leading male voice choral society of Emperor Francis Jo- seph's capital, and among them are some of Vienna's most prominent citizens.
 They left Vienna on April 21 and l had occasion to interview their leader when they passed through Berlin.
 "The singers he declared. "are all de- ilhted at the prospect of seeing the New World, and our only regret is that we cannot take trip through to the Pacific
 We are to stop in a skyscraper hotel opposite Vanderbilts mansion In New York; we are to sing in the White House. I believe, shake hands with the President and visit Coney Island, so if we are not satisfied it will be our own fault.'
 So far from thinking of disarmament the German government has even adopted a new siege gun. which, though of great power and rapid action is unusually light, so that it may be used in field op- erations.
 It replaces the 105 nm siege cannon. it's c1libre being the same, as we'll as its ballistic properties, but it's bore marks great improvement, being of the same type as the v nm rapid firing gun. Tie whole weight of the new gun with carriage is 1920 pounds, the magazine weighs 15OO pounds and carries fourteen shells and forty-two shrapnel charges. The batteries will be of six guns each, ecch gun being drawn by four horses.
 It looks after all as If Berlin is not going to have the Worlds fair it was planned to arrange to celebrate the Kaiser's jubilee as ruler of Germany.
 The socialists, who do not see any req son to celebrate, have of course always opposed the idea, and a strong opposi- ton to the plan is growing up In Bavaria and other South German states, where the love of Prussia Is scarcely stronger than it was in 1866.
 The Kaiser is said to be very much hurt, because he had made 1t known from i ths start that he was very much inter ested in the proposed fair. member of the Russian duma, the Pole Peplowsky. has given the following drastic description of the present condi- tions at Lodz, the greatest manufacturing center in Russian Poland:
 Two thirds of the population of Lodz is busy exterminating itself by interne- cine strife. The remaining third is being exterminated by the military in their bundering attempts to restore peace The great lockout of workmen has led to party dissensions of uneXampled fierce ness. The various socialist and revolu- tionary factions, furious at one another's s imagined treachery are engaged in san- gulnary fight by means of murder. out rage and arson. A hundred murders a week has been the average for some time. last week ecllpsing all records with 150 murders.
 Because one milworker advised to open negotiations with the manufacturers. poison was mixed with his food. An others house was set afire, and as he fled from the flames he was shot down by his comrades. A third was seized, holes cut through ,he snews of his heels, whereupon he was suspended on butch- CTS hooks and cut to pieces.
 Near Zgrez. suburb of Lodz, a whole family was wiped out because one of the sons seeded from his party, whose cruel ties he had criticised. In the same place three foremen were seized by strikers. put through a form of a trial. shot and their bodies thrown into well.
 The lynch court then notified their fam flies on open postal cards of the place
 
 when the son of one of the lynched men came for his fathers body he was shot by men hiding behind a wall.
 Scores of women are being murdered. Usually their only crime is that their husbands are suspe sted of being enemies of the workmen. In several cases whole families have been massacred Flight has failed to save them. A workman named Rakhmanovsky with his wife, brother and two children. fled to Warsaw to es- cape violence. While changing trains his party was attacked by spies of the strik- CTS and all but one were shot down. Rakhmanovsky's relatives at Lodz took revenge by placing a bomb under the bed of the leader of the rival labor organ izaton and blew him to bits.
 Scores of murders take place in the streets and in daytime. Petrolsow street the main thoroughfare of Lodz, witnessed nineteen assassinations in one day. the police and Cossack patrols becoming so panicky that they fired at any one who came near them, thus killing many peace ful citizens.