Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-02
RULERS ARE HOBNOBBINC
French President and Car Conclude
Their Meeting.
NICHOLAS HEADED FOR CowEs
He VIII Meet King Edward There
Visit Regarded a. Important I'm
BRnishinE Enmity OF Two
Countries.

CHERBOUG. Aug. 1.-The final day OF
the visit Of Emperor Nicholas to France
was attended with beautiful weather.
Crowds lined the shores Of the harbor to-
day to watch the imperial yacht and the
the illuminated fleet.
Emperor Nicholas attended religious
services on board the imperial Yacht
STANDARD, this morning, and later took
luncheon with President. Fallieres on board
the French battleship Verite.
This afternoon the entire party landed on
the breakwater, thre miles from shore aud
took tea under a tent, after which they
returned to the STANDARD for Dime
Emperor Nicholas will leave early to-
morrow for Cowes to visit King Edward.
He will be accompanies half way by a
division of the French fleet. -~t
Ut%terances Are Friendly.
The whole tenor of the official utterances
OF President Fallieres and Emperor
Nicholas during the visit has indicated that
the Franco-Russian alliance remains the
Keystone of the policy of the two powers
In the interest Of peace.
While nothing has been published regard
ing the subject Of the conference between
NJ. Pichon and NJ. Iswolsky, respectively
French and Russian foreign ministers, M.
Pinchon in an interview today laid empha-
sis on the perfect e%quinamlty with which
Europe had witnessed these meetings Of
the chiefs Of the states, which formerly
were the subjects Of suspicion.
To-day said NJ. Pinchon, the world
recognizes their pacific purpose. Whatever
questions were discussed were in the inter
est of peace"
The Matin strongly intimates that the
Russian emperoT's visit to President
Fallieres and King Edward will result In
closer ties between the three powers.
The sensation of the day was the distribu-
tion by socialists at the barracks of the
Cherbourg regiment of $500 copies of a
manifesto against the visit Of Emperor
Nicholas. Several Russian socialists, and
two men alleged to be Russian anarchists,
arrived here today.
Edward Ready for Meeting.
COWES, Aug. despite a drizzllng rain
which set in this afternoon the roadstead
and the club house lawn Of the Royal
Yacht squadron presented a brilliant APP
pearance today. Large crowds lave gath
cred for regatta week which this year will
be greatly enhanced by the visit of the
Russian emperor.
King Edward and Queen Alexandria and
various members of the royal families of
Europe spent the day in a round of visits
at Osborne house, King Edwards seaside
residence.
Tonight the three b%attleships of the
Dreadnaught class, sailed to NETT the Rus
sian imperial yacht standard and escort
! Emperor Nicholas to Cowes. This will be.
the first official visit of the Russian mon-
arch to Great Britain, his visit in 1896 to
Balmoral having been a private one. 1t
is needful to go back to the year 1914 when
Emperor Alexander came to England for
a visit similar to the present one. p
Visit Regarded ms Important,
The coming Of Emperor Nichola tomor-
row is regarded as one of the highest i'm
portancc and as sealing the triple entente
between Russia, France and Great Britain.
and indicating that the long period of
estrangemen- and suspicion between Great
Britain and Russia, is now ended.
Officially the visit will be afloat, al
though, it is expected that the Russian
monarch will land privately at Cowes
Tuesday and pay visits.
King Edward, Queen Alexandra and. the
prince of Wales will sail at 1O:45 O'Clock
on board the Victoria and Albert to meet
the Russian imperials, who will board the
kings yacht for luncheon and a subse-
quent review of the British fleet. The
greatest precautions have been taken to
insure the safety Of the Russian visitors.