The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27
GERMANY ID PRAY FOR GROWN PRINCESS Interesting Family Event Ex-
 pected This Week GERMAN FLEET IS MOVED Prince Henry Denies the Rumor That He Is To Bring a Fleet To Ameri-
 can Waters During Absence
 ofsAmerican Fleet.
GERMAN FLEET IS MOVED
BY MALcoM CLARKE.

Berlin, October 26.-(Special Cable. .)-To- morrow prayers will be said in all the churches of Germany for the welfare of Crown Princess Cecilia, who is expecting an interesting family event during the next few weeks. The order to pray for the Crown Princess was given by the minister of cult. according to old Ger man custom, and not because the Crown Princess is in poor health or in any way in danger.
 The Crown Prince and Crown Princess already have one baby, little Prince Will helm, who was born on July 1, 1906, at Potsdam.
 Crown Prince Wilhelm some time ago left the military service, and, according to the wishes of his father the Kaiser, took position in the office of the min ister of the interior Count Fredrich Moltke.
 The idea is that the future Kaiser shall make himself familiar with all branches of government service so as to enable him to discharge his duties intelligently when he shall become ruler of the empire. At present he occupies himself not only with clerical work. but affairs of state of minor importance are left with him to decide. Every week he takes part in the ministerial conference, and is also present at the regular meetings of the heads of the various departments.
 He will remain in his present position for one year, and will then probably again join the army.
 Evidently with the object of being able to strike a quick and powerful blow in case of war with England, the German government has resolved to transfer the headquarters of the Ger aao ;a1 f. l,a1,. -I,o fa,, Kiel is situated on the Baltic, while Wilh elmshafen is on the North Sea.
 This move has met with general ap- proval from German naval officers, be- cause Kiel is port which is extremely difficult of access, whereas Wilhelm shafen is only three hundred miles from the nearest point on the English coast.
 From the new naval base the Ger man fleet will be in a position to, reach England in eighteen hours. It Is thought that docks and other facilities will be in readiness to accommodate the whole German fleet at WilhelS- hafen early in the spring of 1909
 Prince Henry of Prussia has official ly denied the rumor started by the London papers that he is to cross the Atlantic as commander chief of large German fleet during the absence of the American fleet in the Pacific.
 The Prince declares that he wishes nothing more than to visit America again, but that it would be in exceed ingly bad taste to cross the ocean with a squadron of batteships at time when the United States would not be able to parade a similar number to re- ceive it.
 The Orthodox Jews of Germany are not satisfied with their position. They say that Christians are preferred to then in the army; that it is practically impossible for d Jew to rise above the rank of captain, and that the gov ernment uses all means to discourage Jews who wish to adopt a military ca reer.
 Nor is this all At the recent annual congress of the Association of German Jews a number of resolutions were adopted It was resolved to demand equal rights for Jews in the army and to protest against the policy of the gov ernment which offers rewards in the form of special appointments to Jews who are willing to relinquish their faith and become Christians. It was further more resolved to protest against the de- portation of Jews who had escaped from Poland and Russia into Germany, and to demand that all foreign Jews be given chance to become German subjects when they so desired.
 committee of Jews will call on the Kaiser and present him with a copy of the resolutions within a few days.