The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-25
EMPEROR'S ACTIONS
 AROUSE GERMANY Growth of Socialists Worries 8 Kaiser Wilhelm GEAR GOES UNGUARDED Snake-God Worshipers Are Discovered Who Are Alleged to Have Sac
 rificed Human Children to
 Their Deity
By MALCOLM CLARKE

By MALCOLM CLARKE Berlin, September A.-(Special.) .)-The country has not ceased talking about the German Emperors divine right" tspeech. There are some who have taken it as most serious utterance and worthy of an Emperor; others have laughed at l it as~the vaporing of a meglomania while many regard it the speech of a sick man. The impression is growing daily that the Emperor has been gradually losing his health and that mental vigor for which he was noted. People might not admire the Emperor's pompous ways but no one ever questioned his grasp of affairs
 For months past it has been noticeable that he has not been taking tlfe interest which he formerly manifested, not only in the affairs of the empire but those of other nations. The growth of the social | istic labor movement has caused him l worry for he has always regarded it as standing protest against his policy. It is now thought that the crown prince will be compelled to defer his visit to India until his fathers health shows some improvement; while the Kaiser is being strongly urged to spend few weeks in quietude in the country. According to the annual report to be presented to the socialist congress held at Magdeburg, the German social demo- cratic party has a membership of 720,o38, as compared with 633,3o9 last year, with 3s4,3 3S7 in 1908.
 Of this total s2,e42 are women, an in- crease of 20,3s3 since last year. Party organizations exist in all constituencies but 16.
 The account of the party funds show revenue of s226361 and an expendi- ture of s200.O0O as compared with last year the revenue has decreased and the expenditure has increased. The rise in expenditure Is explained as being partly caused by an increased of s14,52O as com pared with last year in the sum de- voted. to agitation.
 The party possesses 76 daily news papers and one quarterly periodical, which is intended solely for the use of the blind. The number of subscribers to this journal is 5000. The number of subscribers to the principal Berlin organ of the party is 139,0OO, an increase of 17,00O.
 The Danzig Allgemeine Zeitung re- Iates that the Kaiser, meeting the di- rector of a Danzig carriage factory at Marienburg. not long ago questioned him as to conditions in the factory. The director replied: 'In my factory there are no socialists"
 The Kaiser was visibly delighted at this information. He charged the di- rector to convey to the employees his thanks for their loyal opinions, and ex pressed the hope that this devotion to the crown" would become firmly estab- lished in the land
 Mistaken for a spy, a harmless work man has been shot by German sentry on the Jungfernheide, this city As he approached the sentry on guard near the shooting ranges he suddenly sank down on the edge of the ditch which separates the heath from the range.
 The sentry challenged. Receiving no reply he fired in the direction in which the suspect had disappeared When the patrol arrived a quarter of an hour later the unfortunate man was found in the ditch 20 yards from the sentry box in an unconscious state The shot had entered the intestines, and the man was taken to the hospital in a critical condition. It is known that the man, who Is teetotaler, suffers from chronic asthma. He is known to have sudden attacks which necessitate him sitting down imme diately to recover his breath. In all proba bility he was overcome when he sat down on the side of the ditch. and because of his shortness of breath was unable to reply to the challenge. Great indignation Is expressed that in the cen ter of great city 1t should be necessary for sentries to fire on harmless passers- by on the most filmsy of pretexts. wasthe
 Owing to the rule that soldiers cannot be punished for anything they may do while on duty the sentry will escape pun ishment. The socialist members of the imperial parliament may call for an in vestgation.
 Columns have been printed in the dem ocratic press about the precautions taken to ensure the safety of the Czar during his visit to Hesse. and a reader would get the impression that the Russian ruler never left the precincts of F'riedberg schloss except in the middle of an im- penetrable ring of detectives. So far is this from being the case that the meas ures adopted do not even suffice to pro tect his majesty from the intrusive cu-
 The German authorities waxed indig riosity of the holiday-making public. nant and sent this outburst to the news papers:
 s'As the Czar sat yesterday on one of the benches of the promenade at Bad Nauheim he was recognized by some of the visitors, and molested in a manner that was positively scandalous. People stationed themselves directly opposite him, stared and surrounded him, and pointed at him with their fingers It was only with difficulty that the Czar could escape these annoyances. If such occur rences should be repeated 1t would be made impossible for the Car in future to show himself in public and go for walks
 That the Emperor of Russia was not so much disturbed about the matter as bis guests is shown by the fact that on the next day he left the Schloss on foot with his daughter, and followed the fieldpaths to the Ludwigsbrunnen. Here they climbed the wooden steps, 100 feet high. leading up to the salt works, which they examined The Czar and the Princess walked back to Friedberg.
 Captain Neumann, director of the School of Aeronautics at Friedrichshafen, has just published a useful book, which gives an up-to-date account of interna- tional progress in the matter of dirigible airships Germany leads the way with 21 airships built, building and projected The French. however already have 42 aeroplanes ready for military service, whereas this side of aviation has been ignored by the German general staff, whose aerial energies have been wholly directed to the development of drigibles. The Cologne Gazette gives details of a ehastly affair in Haiti, in the course of a