Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-27
SOME PREDICT AN AGREEMENT
Others Insist Interests Of Germany and
Russia Clash.
KAISER BOSS AT GONsTANTNOPLB
Russian Paper Insinuates Germans
Want Too Much.
CAR WARNED TO BE CAREFUL
viscera of Cholera Victim Found In
Sc. Petersburg street Causes AnH-
iety for safety of People
who Handled IL.
BY GEORGE FRASER.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 26-(special 70
The Bee)-Wul the recent meeting Of the
car and the German kaiser have the effect
Of bringing about closer understanding
between Russia and Germany? In some
circles there is a disposition TO give an
affirmative answer, but the great majority
Of opinion is that there can be no great
friendship between the empires Their
interests clash at too many points. In the
minds Of the we'll informed Russian, Ger
many is in fact the main obstacle to the
frultive Of Russian hopes in the near east.
German influence has practically supplanted
that of Russia at Constantnople and IT Is
being steadily increased and always used
against Russia in the Balkans. Under the
circumstances II is not believed that which
might be done by the two sovereigns Will
ever make the relatives OF Russia and Ger
many really friendly.
The Novoe Vremya surmises that Ger
many is willing TO forgo opposition to Rus
sian interests in the near and middle as
we'll as in the far east, but what 1t asks,
will be Germany's price? Recent events In
Portugal and in Turkey give a sufficient
Indication The Novoe vremya, as well as
the Bourse Gazette. insists on the neces-
sity of sincere and cordial relations with
Germany, but the former warns Russian
diplomacy not TO surrender TO empty
threats.
Dangerous BOX Found.
A wooden box combining jars filled with
human viscera was picked up in the streets
OF st. Petersburg recently and afterwards
claimed by a doctor, who informed the
police that 1.-THE viscera had been obtained
from the odessa plague hospitals from a
patient who had succumbed 70 pulmonary
plague, the most violent form OF the dis
ease. The official version, which Ia alone
permitted to appear In the newspapers, as
serts that the numerous persons who
handled the remains have been duly dis
infected, but trustworthy accounts declare
that no such precautions were taken.
Hend of Secret Police Dies.
NJ. Rachkovski, former head OF the secret
police in Russia and agent of the Russian
police I'm Paris, has died. suddenly, in the
government OF Vitebsk. NJ. Rachkovski
has been called the nearest approach TO
Sherlock Holmes Russia has ever had"
He was a consummate detective, and under
his regime the services of the famous spy
Azeff were acquired He, too, obtained
the services OF Father Gapou, whose muir
ueI was Drought ABOUT ny ANeII' VINO
feared in Gapon a dangerous rival NJ.
Rachkovsh narrowly escaped the same
! fate as Gapon.
! Fortunately for him he failed to keep an
appointment, and on Gapon's body was
found a card from Rachkovski excusing
himself from being present.
Russia to Have AirshIps.
General sulShomlinoff. Russian minister
OF war, has ordered the formation OF
permanent Military Aeronautic commission.
He will offer a prize for the best dirigible
| balloon built by a Russian firm. Among
the conditions are that these dirigibles
shall be OF 5000 cubic meters, that they
have a spread of seventy kilometers and