The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
RUSSIAN TROOPS
 ID INVADE TURKEY Dread of Abdul Hamid for
 Many Years A GENEOL0GIC TANGLE
Crown Prince Wilhelm Disgraoes Him. self by Helping a Poor Cripple on the Road-Takes Him 4
 in Automobile.
By MALCOLM CLARKE.

Dy mNGOOENt O6FAhfN6f Berlin July 1S.=-Thanhs to the efforts of the Kaiser, who ever since the meeting between the Czar and King Edward at Reyal has been anxious to prove, his dip lomatic talent, it looks as if something Is really to be done in Macedonia, and it is the Czar who is to do it.
 The invasion of Russian troops into Turkish territory, which has been the dread of Abdul Hamid for years, is really to take place. but the Sultan Is no longer afraid, for the invasion is to be a friendly one, his friend the Kaiser has arranged il all, and the southward march of Russian troops does not foreshadow the beginning of the end for Turkey
 The Russians are to punish the unruly kurds, whom the Sultan again desires to subdue and master, that he may use them for other purposes of his own, but he does not want to punish them for the misdeedS to which he himself has encouraged them. and therefore Russia, the wicked enemy of Turkey, Is to invade the country, beat the kurds and turn them over to Abdul Hamid, who will guarantee their good be- hayor in the future.
 The scheme Is quite a clever one, anc that it exists is proven by the fact that Turkey has asked two officers of the Rus sian general staff to visit the Turkish mll- isary strongholds in the district affected by the uprising
 A queer genealogical tangle is reported from Mayence. A sausage maker of that town Fritz Fluhrer by name, married widow of S7 named Garrecht, who had daughter IS years old, Madeline Garrecht.
 His father, George Fluhrer, widowef, of 61, then appeared on the scene, fell in love with Madeline and married her, so that at one and the same time Frau Fritz Fluhrer became daughter-in-law and mother-in-laW of George Fluhrer.
 But things did not end there. George Fluhrer had a son Hans, who is at once brother to Fritz Fluhrer and his grandson through Madeline Garrecht, his stepdaugh- ter To make confusion worse, Frau Fritz Fluhrer also had son, Johan, and so Fritz Fluhrer became brother to his own child.
 Thus Fritz Fluhrer is his mothers brother-in-law, his wife is his own sons aunt. Johan Fluhrer is grandson of George Fluhrer and Fritz Fluhrer Is his own father-in-law.
 Crown Prince Wilhelm has been at it again. He has entirely forgotten his high position as future Kaiser and head of the House of Hohenzollern, and has mingled with the common people much worse than  bob-seigh down the mountains of Tyrol.
 Crown Prince Wilhelm has an auto-he has also a chauffeur, but he seldom uses him, so the other day when he was on his way to visit his brother Joachim. who Is learning to become farmer at Ploen, he Wus steering his own car, when he noticed a tramp painfully hobblng along in the same direction.
 Kind hearted, as always, he asked the tramp who was a disreputable looking specimen, if he would not rather ride than walk and persuaded him to take a seat next to him.
 The tramp did not know the Crown Prince until the deep salutations Of the peasants and farm hands gave him away, and he was pleasantly surprised when his future Kaiser pressed a twenty mark piece into his hand as they parted com pany
 The incident however, reached the Kaiser's ears, and young Wilhelm is said to have had another unpleasant hour with the old man.
 Fraulein Crete Beier, 22 years old and daughter of an ex-burgomaster, of Frei- burg, Saxony, is on trial for life for hav- ing murdered her sweetheart, Chief Ensl- neer Karl Pressler at Chemnitz two months ago.
 Her mother is serving a two-year term for attempted subornation Of perjury. 6ne and her lover, Fritz Merker, were re- gently sentenced for receiving stolen goods and several women who gave her and her lover opportunities for rendezvous have been convicted.
 A little over a month ago Crete Beier was sentenced to five years penal servi- tude for theft, forgery and indictment to murder.
 The murdered fiance, Pressler, was a
 nd much In love with the accused. The mur- der was committed in a manner which makes many doubt the sanity of the girl. She went to her fiance's apartments, and, telling him she had been to fair, made him close his eyes and open his mouth. As soon as he did so she fired shot with a revolver through the roof of his mouth, killing him on the spot.
 That the crime was premeditated Is shown by the fact that having shot her victim she placed forged. will in her fa- yer among the papers, and forged letters to give the impression he committed sui- eide.
 The treason trials at Cologne, which be- gan with the conviction of the editor Schi- vara. who was sentenced to twelve years in prison, continue, and every days cross examination brings new surprises and im- plicates more men, nearly all non-comn.is- stoned officers.
 Yesterday the sergeants, Alecke, Gern- stein and Sperke, were sentenced to, re- spectively, eight, six and five years in the penitentiary for selling military secrets to France.
 New arrests are expected in a few days ss a result of confessions made by the ac- oused after they had been sentenced.
 The Prussian government has set aside the sum of ten million marks to repair the erunnbling ornaments of the famous ca- thedral at Cologne one of the most beau- tiful in Germany, but 1t is doubtful whether they can be saved and at best it will take several years before the work can be finished.