The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-12
KAISER MUST LEAVE BERLIN FCR HEALTH t Is CIal med, However, That
 He Only Needs Rest A GREAT MURDER TRIAL No One Believes Confession of Captain Won Goeben That He Killed Major
 Won Schoenbeck-Wife
 Is Suspected.
A GREAT MURDER TRIAL
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.

BY MALCOLM CLARKE.
 Berlin, January 11.-(Specal Cable)- It Is now practically admitted by the government that it is necessary for the Kaiser to leave Berlin in search of health and strength, although it is said that it is nothing more serious than the necessity of taking a complete rest which ails him.
 On February 27 the imperial yacht
 Hohenzollern will leave Kiel and start for
 the Mediterranean, but it has not yet
 been decided whether the Kaiser and the
 Imperial family will be on board or
 whether they will be picked up in
 southern port. At any rate they will
 spend about three weeks cruising in the
 Mediterranean and toward the end of
 March they will take up their residence
 in the beautiful Villa Achilleion on the
 island of Corfu which will be ready to
 receive them.
 How long the Kaiser will stay abroad
 no one knows, but he will not be allowed
 to take any active part in government
 affairs during his absence, as he did
 when he was at Hghcliffe Castle. Never has a more sensational affair
 stirred up German military and social
 circles than the mysterious murder or Major von Schoenbeck which was fol- lowed by the arrest of Captain von Goe- ben.
 Although the captain has confessed that he alone murdered his comrade, no one here believes it, and many things seem to point to the guilt of the murdered or ficer's wife, who is also under arrest Captain von Goeben says that he was in love with the murdered man s wire but that no word of love had ever passed between them, and that ne shot the major because he could not bear to see him abuse the woman he loved in silence. Friends of Von Goeben are positive that he is sacrificing himself to shield Frau von Schoenbeck, who her-
 self shot the father of her two chill
 dren while he was asleep.
 The trial of the two will be the most sensational murder trial ever held In | Germany and will, it is expected, throw
 much light upon life in army circles. n Captain von Goeben has splendid military record here and fought with much valor under De Wet and Botna during the Boer war When he returned l he was attached to the general stair and
 was sent to Macedonia to study condi- tions in that unruly country and report ! direct to the chancellor of the em- pire.
 l Edison's cement cottages may be built | on a large scale in the suburbs of Ser
 lin and other large German cities if they prove practical and cheap
 Emperor William, who has always been opposed to housing workingmen's fam files in large tenements, came back from England full of enthusiasm at the many worxingmen's s cottages he had seen there and to the burgomaster of Munich, who l had an audience with him, he said he did not see why the English system could not be transplanted to Germany. The burgomaster saw a chance to win the Kaisers favor, and got several Mu- nich millionaires to start company, whose object shall be to build working
 mems cottages by the thousands near all German industrial centers.
 The Czar, who had been assured that prisoners in Russia or Siberia were no longer subjected to any violence, is furi-
 ous at the officials responsible for the facts brought to light in a letter from
 political prisoner, which has, just been
 printed in St. Petersburg paper.
 The writer says: We landed from our barge at in the evening and passed our first night in the open on the shores of the Amur. We were ordered by the es- cort not to talk, not to lie downto sleep, not to stir. No supper must be cooked. It rained in torrents, and we were all speedily wet through. When at last morning came our letters were knocked off, and we set off for the camp 32 versts distant, dragging after us the bags, containing our luggage, as no carts were provided for baggage transport The first verst was covered without incident, but as soon as the village was out of sight the escort got to work with the butt ends of their rifles, urging the party on with blows and curses.
 "One single days rest was then allowed us, but on the following day we were aroused at a m. and driven to work. It was raining fast, and for whole yerst our way lay across submerged land. Every day for a fortnight we had to cross this same flooded ground, stripped to the skin and carrying our shovels on our shoulders. This was our life of torment. Up every morning at 4, working until or 6 in the evening and returning then utterly worn out for roll-call, prayers and sleep.
 "The spot where we are working is about ten miles from the camp. We have thus to walk some twenty miles daily, be- sides performing our hard task. The work Is hard, but hardest of all Is the beating. You are beaten on the way to work, at work, and on the way home beaten always and everywhere.
 "A prisoner named Abdicheff, aged 43, had two ribs broken by Cossacks s rife. 4 to give up his pillow to the escort, had two ribs broken. Another state prisoner who complained of feeling i'll was kicked out of his tent by the inspector, who afterward threw him to the ground and battered his face with his revolver.
 Tt is the terror and horror of the ko- lessnaya road which drive men to cut off their own fingers, to maim themselves de- liberately, to drink tobacco juice so they may be sent back as seriously ill., 1 know two men who have cut off the fingers Of their right hands I have seen third who placed his hand beneath wagon so that it might be crushed and others who have dsfigured themselves in many terri ble ways"
 To develop and open up the German colonies in Southwest Africa company called the Southwest African Transport and Commercial company has been formed here under the dictatorship of General von Trotha, former commander in-chief of the German troops in Africa and Dr. Wiegand, general manager of the North German Lloyd.
 By extended use of automobiles which will connect the railroad lines and by es- ia blishing network of regular communi- cation throughout the colony the syndi- cate expects to accomplish wonders.
 The department of the colonies has granted free franchises until 1915 and the company starts with Q capital of 1000, which will soon be increased to $900,0o0. This is the first practical result of Secre- tary von Dernberg's s recent visit to the district which it is hoped will in time Ia1I !, antf ah