The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-17
KA|SER'S THROAT
 MAY BE AFFECTED Fear That He Must Again With
 stand Operation EAST AFRICAN AFFAIRS Report of German Secretary Of Colo nes May Be of Interest to Amer.
 leans When 1t ls Made
 Public.
EAST AFRICAN AFFAIRS
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.

BY MALCOLM CLARKE.
 Berlin. November 1s.-(Speclal Cable.)-- Is the kaiser really only in need of rest and anxious to get away for short i while from the court seandalzed by the Harden exposures? Does he really intend to return straight home via Hol- land, after a short sojourn on the Isle
 of Wight or Is he again threatened by the throat disease which placed him un- der the surgeons knife a few years
 ago?
 These are the questions which are occupying the German mind more than
 anything else since Professor Fraenkel, the famous throat expert of the Uni versity of Berlin, was called to the i'm peral palace little over a week ago There are many who believe that the Kaiser will go and spend the winter
 outside of Germany. but It Is absolutely impossible to get any reliable informa- , tion-the lips of every one in the i'm perial palace are tightly sealed. The recent trip of the Secretary of the Colonies Dernbury to German East Afri- ca promises to give very valuable re- suits, some of which are also of in- terest to Americans.
 No official report of the trip has been
 made so far, and although interviewed by several journalists the secretary has refused to give any detailed informa- | ton. but he says that he has found hundreds of square miles in German ter ritory where cotton may be raised to advantage.
 | The climate and soil of the German 1 colonies in East Africa are ideal for | the raising of the finest grade of cot | ton he says; the only difficulty being to get 1t to the market, means for which
 
 then Germany will no longer be depend ent upon America for its supply of cot ton.
 One of the manufacturers who ac-
 companed Secretary Dernburg has all ready bought a very large tract of land near Dares Salaam and intends to plant cotton at once. The cheap labor will enable him to compete with American cotton even before railroads are built. Prince Guido won Henckel Domers- marck, who Is the owner of large arti- ficial silk mills In Siesia, is reported here to have invested considerable money 1 in the American Silk Yarn company of New Jersey. which is about to begin the manufacture of artificial silk from cot 1 ton by secret process invented by | French chemist at Lyons.
 1 M Kulbasoff, formerly an engineer on
  l the Ministry of Communications at St. | Petersburg, has been put on trial for | frauds committed fifteen years ago. The | frauds he unwittngly exposed himself. | Having attained a high position and
 good salary Kulbasoff ceased swindling | the government, and distinguished him | self by his zeal in exposing others mis- | deeds Recently he received from Cen 1 tral Asia a large parcel of documents
 relating to suspected railroad frauds by 1 different individuals. As he was starting | for a holiday, he handed them over to
 his assistant. ordering him to investi- 1 gate thoroughly, and expose all acts of | dishonesty "however high the culprit."
 The assistants inquiries led him back ] fifteen years. He found that his zealous | chief had on one occasion netted $50,0O0 I from secret commissions on rails, and. l following instructions. at once reported | the fraud to the auditor general. From all corners of Russia come stories 1 of murders, suicides and self-torture by ! children. The cause Is usually morbidity 1 induced by political discontent.
 The "Deviati Var relates how four
 boys and three girls of the Ekaterinburg 1 Art school hanged themselves in order l to survive the experiences of the men ! and women who are being hanged every | day for political offenses."
 The children used swing in play q ! hanged one another. When the bodies 1 had ceased to quver, they were cut down i and restored to life by rubbing and the
 administration of drugs.
 The children failed to revive boy [ of thirteen and had to appeal to the
 school authorities for help
 Despite the promises made to raise the
 Jewish question in the coming douma made by most constitutional democratic l candidates, the majority of Russo-yewish
 papers refuse to believe that Jewish | emancipation can be attained through
 this party. The party has already
 thrown overheard half its programme,
 and Jews begin to think that at the
 coming party session the leaders will
 temporize with emancipation
 The Jewish papers, Held Hassan, and Der Freund" both express suspicion.
 The Russian Liberals, they declare, at
 heart regard assimilation as the only so-
 lution, and that Is not what the Jews
 want Der Freund' demands that the Jewish leaders of the constitutional dem
 ocratic party should secede. At present
 they are completely dominated by the | party spirit and have lost all special i intarast tha JaVvsh uuestiOn.