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KAISER INVITES HIM AGAIN
Fleet Will Participate in Military
Msneuvers in September.
DIRIGIBLE AIRsHIP TAKES PART
Plans Under Way for Increasing
German Naval Construction.
CHANGE IN ALSACE GOVERNMENT
wider Measure of Home Rule IL 10
BE Allowed In the Conquered
Provinces and Much Re-
Joicing Prevails.
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.

JoiclnR Prevails.
BY MALCOLM CLARKE
BERLIN, May 2I.-(special Dispatch to
The Bee.)-Roosevelt has come and gone
and Berlin is still on the map. or course
the death of King Edward played hob
with the public reception of "melnc friend
Roosevelt" but the kaiser and the people
showed in every possible way that the
famous American was welcome Probably
in view of the fact that the former presi-
dent was in the hands of his physicians
he was not sorry thai some of the cere-
monies which had been arranged for his
Berlin stay had to be cut out
1 understood me kaiser has given Mr.
Roosevelt an earnest and pressing invita-
ton to come back to Germany in Septem-
Der and witness the maneuvers to be
held in the vicinity of Koenlgsberg and
Dantzic. These will be in many respects
the most remarkable maneuvers held in
modern times and it is possible Mr.. Roose-
welt will accept the invitation.
| The maneuvers will be particularly in
teresting owing to the fact that the fleet
will participate in combined landing op-
erations, and that all the most recently
discovered methods Of communication will
be utilized.
| Dirigible airshlps of the various systems
represented by the Zeppelin, the Gross,
and the Parseval types will cooperate with
biplanes of the Wright system, and prob
ably also with several types of German
flying machines, in scouting and recon-
| naissance work.
VIII Use the wireless.
At the same time, wireless teegraphy
and telephony will keep the commanders
| in touch with the widely distributed units
of their armies, and large number of
swift automobiles, either belonging to the
army or requisitioned for the period Of the
maneuvers, Will dash hither and thither
conveying staff officers from place to
| place.
In addition to the troops serving in the
| regular army OF the German empire
totallng 621, liz officers and men, no fewer
than 35B,ss2 reservists are to be called up
to serve a period with the colors this
year, thus bringing up the number of
soldiers under arms to the formidable
figure of 81, 1884. OF these, however, only
two army corps will take part In the i'm
perial maneuvers, namely, the First Army
Corps whose headquarters are at Koenigs-
berg, and the Seventeen Army corps,
whose headquarters are at Dantzic.
The infantry will be brought up to war
| strength, so that about $1,000 men alto
| gether will be engaged. These troops will
be gradually concentrated round the two
headquarters the final three days
maneuvers under the direct supervision
of the emperor, being led up TO by brigade
teen days.
One division of each of these two army
corps is to be clothed in the new gray
uniform which is to be generally adopted
by the branches of the service for field
work as soon as the present stock of var-
colored uniforms is exhausted
The statement that Germany contemplates
increasing its naval construction program
receives striking corroboration in an arti-
Gle published in the Weserzeltung an in
fluential Bremen paper. The journal states:
THE tremendous efforts which France is
making to enlarge it's fleet of submarines
and the colossal exertions of Great Britain
to construct its Dreadnaughts show that
cessation in the extension of German arm
ament viii be impossible. IL the British
and French governments force the pace in
shipbuildlng as at present, the German Ad-
miralty will have choice but TO take
such measures as are necessary to provide
an adequate protection against such gi-
gantIc fleets.
After having made inquiries in official
quarters, we consider 1t by no means i'm
probable that after the fulfillment of the
provisions OF the navy act OF 1900, the i'm
perial German government will be obliged
to put forward legislative proposals for a
more extended and more powerful coast de-
Tense. Whether this necessary coast de.
Tense will be secured by the enlargement
Of our flotilla Of submarines, or by the
building of substitutes for batteshlps which
are becoming obsolte, or by the creation Of
} a squadron Of auxiliary airships, is still
open to question"
Change in AIsace-LOrraine.
That the recent visit of the kaiser to
Alsace-Lorraine means a change In the
government of the conquered provinces with
a wider measure of home rule is believed
not only in Berlin. but in Alsace as well.
Even the we'll drilled rassburger Post
in an article about the need Of mutual con.
fidence, says that strassburg is welcoming
the emperor this time in new circumstances
and adds:
I'VE are stnl ina state OF anxious sus
pensei out We know that the hour Is al
hand when the empire Is to present us with
the belated wedding gift OF extension OF
our rights and upbuilding OF our constitu.
ton to a greater independence"
A characteristics semi-offlcial not on tho
Germano- Belgian negotiations is printed In
the National zeitung. 1t denies that al
agreement has yet been arrived at, but
adds:
That an understanding will eventually
be arrived at on the basis OF the points
which have frequently been mentioned is Il