The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22
TEDDY LEAVES
Berlin ON MAP
Kaiser and People Give Him
Warm Welcome
THE NAVAL PROGRAMME
Wider Measure of Home Rule Seems TO
Be Assured for Province of Alsace.
Note on Germano-BeIgian
Negotiations
THE NAVAL PROGRAMME

Berlin, May 81. (special)-Well, Roose-
Welt has come and gone and Berlin is
still on the map. OF course the death Of
King Edward played hob with the public
reception of 'meine 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 that some of the cere-
monies which had been arranged for his
Berlin stay had to be cut out.
I understand the Kaiser has given Mr..
Roosevelt an earnest and pressing invi-
tation to come back to Germany in Sep
TENDER and witness the manoeuvers to
be held In the vicinity of Koeningsberg
and Dantzig. These will be in many re-
spects the most remarkable manoeuvres
held In modern times and 1T is possible
Mr. Roosevelt will accept the invitation.
The manoeuvres will be particularly in
teresting owing to the fact that the fleet
will participate in combined landing
operations, and that all the most recent
ly discovered methods of communication
will be utilized.
Dirigble airships of the various sys-
TENS represented by the Zeppelin, the
Gross and the Parseyal types will CO.
operate with biplanes of the Wright sys-
TEN and probably also with several types
of German flying machines in scouting
and reconnaissance work.
At the same time, wireless biography
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 requsitioned for the period of
the manoeuvres, 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 to-
falling .112 officers and men, no fewer
than $50 reservists are to be called up
to serve a period with the colors this
year, thus bringing up the number of SOL
diers under arms to the formidable fig
ure of 1884.
Of these, however, only two army corps
will take part in the Imperial manoeuvres
headquarters are at Koeningsberg, AMI
the seventeenth army corps, whose head
quarters 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 around
the two headquarters. the final three
days manoeuvres. under the direct sup
ervlsion of the Emperor, being led up
to by brigade and divisional operations
lasting about fifteen days.
One division of each of these two army
corps is to he clothed in the new gray
uniform which is to be generally adopt
ed by all branches of the service for field
work as soon as the present stock of
vari-colored uniforms is exhausted.
The statement that Germany contem-
plates increasing her naval construction
programme receives striking corrobora-
tion in an article published in the
"Weserzeitung," an influential Bremen
paper. The Journal states
THE tremendous efforts which France
is making to enlarge her fleet of sub
marines and the colossal exertions of
Great Britain to construct her dread
noughts show that cessation in the ex-
tension of German ornaments will be
impossible If the British and French
governments force the pace in shipbuild-
ing as at present the German admiralty
will have no choice but to take such
measures as are necessary to provide an
adequate protection against such gigan-
tic fleets.
after having made inquiries in Off
cial quarters, we consider 1t by no means
improbable that after the fulf1lment of
the provisions of the navy act of 1900,
the Imperial German government will be
obliged to put forward Legislative pro-
posals for more extended and more
powerful coast defence. Whether this
necessary coast defence will be secured
by the enlargement of our flotilla of sub
marines, or by the building of substi-
tutes for battleships which are becoming
obsolete, or by the creation OF squad
ron of auxiliary airships is still open to
question"
That the recent visit of the Kaiser
to Alsace Lorraine means a change in
the government of the conquered prov
inces with wider measure of home rule
is believed not only in Berlin, but In AL
SAGE as well.
Even the we'll drilled Strassburger
Post in an article about the need of
mutual confidence, says that Strassburg
is welcoming the Emperor this time in
new circumstances, and adds
We are still in a state of anxious sus-
pense; but we know that the hour, is ar
hand when the Empire is to present us
with the belated wedding gift of extern
sion of our rights and upbuildng of our
constitution to a greater independence.
With the death of Count Karl Lem
ingen- Neudenau. at the age of 66, which
took place recently at Lair, in the
Grand Duchy of Baden. one of the few
surviving links with the fate Of the i'll
starred Emperor Macmillan of Mexico
has passed away; and with him has died
the last male representative of the Neud-
enau (Hildesheim) branch of the medi-
atsed house of Leiningen.
The late count, on coming of age. en-
.ered the Mexican army on the advice of
the late councillor Schertzenlechner. who
was then the Emperor Maximilian's sec
rotary At the fall of Queretaro, on
May Is, 1867, having conducted the wound
ed General Miramon to the house OF Il
physician, the latter treacherously re-
voaled their whereabouts to the enemy.
who took both of them prisoners and
confined them In the former convent of
the Capurhine nuns, at Queretaro.
Count Leiningen succeeded in making
his escape. and on the recommendation
OF Marshal Bazaine. whose acquaintance
he had made In Mexico he was admitted
to the French Legion.
| Here his stay was a comparatively
! brief one, and at length. after many hard
ships. he returned TO his native land In
| the year 1862 Count Karl was judicially
| deprived of his succession to the entail
| ed family estates, in which he was sue
| ceeded by his younger brother, Count
| Macmillan, owing to his marriage with
| Fraulein Magdalena Mold of Mannheim.
whom he had welded in England, and
whose lowly birth made her impossible