Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-12
FAMOUS GERMAN
STEP is NO MORE
Kaiser Decides Time Honored Army
Movement is of No Real
Use.
INVESTIGATING NAVAL AFFAIRS
Explosion on Torpedo Boat is Cause
of Inquiry,
SOMETHING WRONG" HE SAYS
Notable Rupture Between Count
Zeppelin and Kaiser.
PERSIAN SITUATION IS ACUTE
President OF Ministerial Council
submits His Resignation and
Crisis IL at
Hand.
PERSIAN SITUATION IS ACUTE
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.

BERLIN, June u.-(Special Dispatch TO
The Bee)-One Of the most cherished in
stitutfons Of the German army, the ia
nous goose STEP" has been sent to the
limbo OF things that were. This ceremonial
step which has amused, not to say amazed
every American visitor to Germany who
has seen a German infantry regiment
march past a receiving officer was in
troduced by King Frederick William and
has been a distinguishing mark of German
marching soldiers ever since. Now the
kaiser has decided that the goose step is
neither useful nor ornamental and foot
stamping and knee action are prohibited
by the new regulation which forbids the
German soldier ito raise the foot which
is being carried to the front higher than
is necessary to take a correct pace, or to
place 1t on the ground with unnecessary
veteran OF the kalsers army will violate
this regulation involuntarly for a long
time to come.
Inquiry Into Those Conditions.
AS a result of the explosion on torpedo
boat 8. 80 near Heligoland in which five
men were killed and two seriously injured.
the kaiser has the naval authorities to
make a rigid and searching examination
into German naval conditions.
This Is the seventh serious accident i'm
the German navy since the first of the
year and the kaiser has become convinced
that something is radically wrong in the
navy personnel He is determined to find
out just what II is and apply the remedy.
1t is probable at the same time the ques-
ton as to what Is the matter with Ger
many 3 naval gupnery will be investigated
1t Is no secret that the kaiser is seriously
annoyed by the fact that the reports
show his gunRers away behind those Of
Great Britain and the United States both
as to accuracy and rapidity Of gun fire.
He realizes that in building up the Ger
man navy efficiency of personnel counts
for as much as the ships themselves and
that it is a matter of prime Importance to
find out just where the trouble is 1t is
probable that Prince Henry of Prussia will
be given charge OF the investigation.
Zeppelin Mt Outs with Kaiser,
A sensation has been caused by the rs
sertion Of Count Zeppelin, speaking at a
supper recently, that he feared the en-
peror had come under the influence of the
current at work against him and his air
ship system in the ministry of war The
relations between him and the War minis
try were, he said, of an unenduringly cold
character
Persian Question Acute.
The Lokalanzeiger published a dispatch
from st. Petersburg, stating that the Per-
sian question is becoming more acute,
adding that Count Metternich the German
AMBASSADOR in London, has entered a pro-
| test against concessions accorded In the
| spheres of Anglo Russian influence in
| Persia, and has further declared that ex-
illusions similar to those effected by such
| concessions are opposed to international
| usages.
At the ministry of foreign affairs in St.
| Petersburg, on the other hand, the view IL
held that under existing agreements each
| commercial man. to whatever nationality
| he belongs, can pursue his business aima
in Persia on the same lines as Anglo
| Russian merchants or manufacturers, but
| that any new German establishment hav-
ing a political character will meet with
| the energetic resistance of Great Britain
| and Russia.
Bank Demands Report.
The Teheran correspondent OF the Mage
| blatt states that the representative Of the
Deutsche bank has been recalled by tele-
| graph to Berlin in order that he may
present report to the government on the
situation in Persia. The president OF the
Persian Council of Ministers has handed
In his resignation, and is now endeavoring
to provoke ministerial crisis such as
will result in the bringing into power Of q
Rurrophile ministry.
1t can be said that Germany does not
propose to be left out, in the settlement
of any questions which may arise in Per
STA and has, 1 understand, served SUI.
ficient of unofficial notice on both Russia
and England to that effect.