The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-07
Exchange of Diplomatic Visits
 Is Arranged
"A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY
Rather Than See His Son Marry Be- low His Station, Father Kills Boy and Then Himself.
 Sad Suicide.
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.

man mind by the coming meeting be-
 tween the Czar and King Edward on
 Tuesday next and the visit of Presi-
 dent Fallieres to London and St. Peters .
 burg, the German department of for
 eign affairs has succeeded in arrang
 ing for an "officiaP visit to Berlin of
 the Russian minister of foreign af- z fairs, M. Iswolsky.
 The German people have for some
 time begun to believe that just as the powers of Europe united against Ma poleon the Great, so King Edward of | England is rapidly succeeding in form l ing an unwritten alliance against Ger
 many, which, when the proper time
 comes, will be attacked from three and possibly four sides at once and crushed ! by the nations wh hose i'll will it has 1 incurred by it's successful wars in 1966
 and 1S70-71.
 l In spite of all statements to the con- 1 trary the German government knows l full well that the provinces of Alsace- | Lorraine are no more German today
 than they were 35 years ago, and that 1 the French nation as whole is all ways thirstfng for revenge The conferences between President l Fallieres and King Edward, the Czar | and King Edward, and President Fall | Heres and the Czar have made 1t ap- pear that Germany has become a pow | CT standing entirely alone, and 1t is | undoubtedly to create the impression that Czar Nicholas wishes to take Ger
 many's wishes into consideration that | the Russian minister of foreign affairs | is to visit Berlin officially. While this skillfully arranged visit may fool some people, the intelligent | part of the German nation is fully aware of the fact that their country is | hated by all and that only fear of the formidable army in keeping the ene-
 mics from attacking 1t.
 A romantic love story has ended in | a terrible tragedy at Lich tenau a | suburb of Baden Baden.
 Some time ago Major Bauer re- 1 tired army officer, received a letter from his son, who was undergoing his | military service at Frieburg, that he
 had fallen in love with the beautiful
 daughter of a railway emproye and that
 he intended to marry her.
 l The father wrote indignant letters
 threatening to cut him off without penny if he should make such a mesallance, but ] the young mans decision could not be
 shaken, and he obtained leave to go home
 yesterday to see his father
 | A stormy scene took place between the
 two. the young man declaring that he
 would gladly give up name and position
 for his sweetheart. At this the father
 drew revolver, and exclaiming that
 death for both was better than a dis | honored name, he shot his son and then
 sent bullet through his own head. | Wholesale arrests of Russian revolu- 1 tfonists in all parts of Germany are ex- | pected to occur any time since the Ger
 man secret service men, through the mur- dered Russian student Andreas Szeleysk1
 have come into possession or information
 which lays bare the plans and organza-
 tion of the enemies of the Czar within 1 tlie German empire. i Andreas Szelevslxi, who paid with his
 life for his refusal to allow crimes to be
 committed in the name of liberty, was an | idealist of the class so aptly described | by Count Tolstoi Although quite wealthy, | his desire to see his country libera ted | from the shackles of autocracy made him
 join several secret revolutionary societies l When he discovered, however, that hls | fellow revoutionists were more often in =
 spired by greed of money than by love of | freedom and did not hesitate to plan the
 murders of men, whose only crime was | their wealth, he fercely denounced his
 comrades in one of their secret meetings
 and declared that unless an end were put | to the murders of men who could not be
 classed as political tyrants he would re- veal the plots of the secret societies to
 the police.
 l Since that day he was a marked man.
 and when 1t was found that he was in earnest, he was assassinated in his room | in Dresden, though not until he had car
 ried out his purpose and supplied the
 Saxon police with valuable information
 which, it is said, will lead to hundreds of
 sensational arrests both here and in Rus l sia.
 His murderers, said to be two Russian l na i'm in, [ | ain, are known to the police and their l every movement Is now being watched | by spies of the Czar who followed them | to London.
 | Czar Nicholas of Russia is said to be | greatly shocked at a tragedy which has taken place among his nearest surround ings at Czarskoe Selo.
 Baroness Moerder, a close friend of the | Czarina committed suicide few days ago, because she feared she could not survive the loss of her daughter, young girl of r, who was a great favorite | at court.
 Just before Easter the young Baroness l Lillian was attacked by a peculiarly ma | lignant typhus, which left no hope of her recovery.
 Last week the mother declared she wanted to take her to St. Petersburg to
 consult two of the Czar's private physi- clans, kissed her husband goodbye and | left the house. Half an hour later a footman handed the baron letter which had been received by special messenger. In this letter the unhappy mother told | her husband that she knew her daughter could live only "A hours longer and that | she would never be able to bear this | grief. She had, therefore, decided te com init suicide. She directed him to look | for her body behind the ruins of the old | tower of Sophia in the park surrounding | the Imperial palace and asked the baron 1 to see that she and her daughter were not buried in the cold north but on the l Riviera, near Nice, where the Baron | Moerder owns a villa.
 | After reading this letter the baron per- | sonally went to the designated spot and | found the dead body of his wife, sur- | rounded by a number of soldiers, who | had come too late to prevent her from killing herself. la The next day the young Baroness Lil- | Han died without having recovered com sciousness
 | It Is feared that the Baron will go in- sane, and close watch is kept upon him at the order of the Czar.
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