The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-19
ANGLOPHOB|A IS
 KEEN IN GERMANY Certain Section of Press Keeps
 Up Agitation MANY COMPLAINTS MADE New Story Is Told By Duke of Leucht- enberg = Latham Will Make Make Flight In Berlin
 This Month.
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.


 Berlin, September 1S-The connection between the Kiel canal and Aziff and Bu- ziff. as the Germans call them, Is not at first obvious. Yet it is close. When the Czar was passing through the canal the other day it was reported in certain cir cles that the Russie spies who thronged the whole district had actually been dressed as non-commissioned officers of the regiments appointed to guard the canal
 Probably that was untrue. Yet it is true that simultaneously with his visit the Russian political ploice exhibited renewed activity in Germany and that members of that much-hated force ob- tained access to places which by every law of the country should have been closed to them.
 Now, even Russophobe German Radi- calls had comforted themselves to some extent with the thought that at least the Czar did not know of or did not approve of the excessive precautions" taken for his safety but the Socialist Vorwaerts publishes at the instance of the famous Burtzeff facsimile proof that the legend as to the Cars ignorance, and therefore innocence, of much that is done in his name is simply a cleverly devised lie to keep western Europe in good temper.
 Promptly the suspicion arises that all the stories of Russian police activity in Germany are after all true, and Ger mans hurt in their feelings of hospitality (for hospitality is a German virtue), are making ready to get indignant. It foi- lows that some of those questions, if Buzif speaks the solid truth, will be very hard for the German government to an- swer. And so we have another pleasing little sensation to which the Vorwaerts adds that additional piquancy of ito be continued" There is, perchance. after all lively autumn in store for the read CTS of the German press.
 The Frankfurter Zeitung, the foremost organ of the commercial and enlightened democratic classes publishes a timely rebuke to the German "comic" press for it's ''ihcessant, tasteless and uncalled-for" caricaturing of foreign monarchs, eSpe- cially King Edward.
 The journal points that Simplicissimus Kladderadasch, Jugentd Ulk and other periodicals hardly ever go to press now adays without a deliberately malevolent cartoon of King Edward Simplicssimus recently depicted his majesty as a sea- shore acrobat, begging pennies for New Dreadnoughts. Ulk, few days ago, pictured the British Isles being locked up for the night in the strong box of the Bank of England out of fear of the Ger man invasion.
 The Frankfurter Zeitung says that such l cartoons, which frequently lack both ar tistic merit and wit do nothing but nour- ish the chronic and uncompromfsIng An glophobia of certain sections of the Ger man people. and are calculated to give foreign nations an altogether inaccurate and pernicious conception of public opin- ion in the Fatherland.
 A few days ago his Imperial Highness Prince Alexander Romanowski, Duke of Leuchtenberg, left Carlsbad to proceed to his "after-cure" at Lucerne.
 Before his departure his imperial high ness gave a parting dinner, at which he related the following amusing story, which at the same time bears witness to the kindly nature of the prince.
 His imperial highness. who always spends the winter in the south of France at Pau-was here also in the previous year. On his morning walks he was struck by the appearance of the little daughter of the bird dealer. known to all Carlsbad visitors, who sells redbirds and bullfinches on the Ate Weiese. The little girl, who always accompanied her father on his business walks. looked so pale and poorly that the human prince asked about her health. The bird dealer related how he had become widower with ten young children. and that he had not the means to send the little daughter to a warmer climate, as the doctors ad- yised Full of pity for the poor creature, the prince declared his willingness to take the child back to Pau with him for the winter.
 With delight the father signiied his agreement, and so the little girl was moved to the princes beautiful villa in Pau As Christmastide came round 1t oc- cured to the good prince that the child would feel 1t had to spend these days so far from her father and her family, and so invited the father and sister of his little ward to come to his house on short visit over the holidays. He provided his guests with the necessary money for the fare. and invited the bird dealer to bring at the same time some of her red birds, for which he would certainly find buyers. In the ducal villa everything went well. but the business. and that refused to go. The red birds were universally admired. but all found the price too high. so that the dealer could find no buyers for his songsters.
 The duke, who felt that he had taken upon himself by his advice certain re- sponsibility. decided at last to buy the birds himself, and purchased the red birds for no less than 1000 crowns. But tho seller was by no means satisfied with that, and insisted that the birds should be so arranged that they should not spoil each others songs.
 So there remained nothing for the duke but to give the man his way and to put one bird in his bedroom, and one each in his dressing room. in the servants room. in a word in every available room in his house, and as there were so many birds he had to hire extra rooms for the recep- ton of the others.
 "The worst was,' said the duke, that after had finally found place for all the birds, mysef was often devoid of shelter The birds often drove me with their song from one room to another, till at last was obliged to flee into the street to find relief from their voices. I have tried to make presents of some of these birds specially the one in my bed room, who regarded it his duty to greet the sunshine daily in his shrilled tones. but I had no luck People always had such amiable excuses. that at last my heart failed me- l could not insist"
 A new department store the Passage Kaufhaus, has arranged with M. Hubert Latham to come here during September and carry out series of flights with his monoplane at the Rhuleben race course Part of the gate will go to charity. M. Latham will fly during the same time MT. Orville Wright is experimenting at Tempelhof Field. In view of the young Frenchman's record-smashing work at Rheims the competition between the two aviators in Berlin may prove to be fast