The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-11
ARMY OF Brazil
TO Be REORGAN|zED
May Be Threat to the Great
Monroe Doctrine
FEUD BETWEEN ROYALTY
Breeding of Fine Horses by With
drawing Opposition to
Horse Racing

Berlin, September 10.-(Special.)-The
United States may find threat to the
Monroe doctrine in the fact that the Ger
man officers are to organize and to bring
up to the highest possible state of eff
ficiency the army of Brazil.
The request has come from the big
South American republic for the loan
of a general officer with a full staff of
subordinates to do this work and it has
been very cheerfully complied with
Whether or not Germany ever intends
to seriously challenge the Monroe doctrine
is a question for statesmen, but 1t is a
fact that the Kaiser is keenly interested
in South America and loses no OPP
portunity to increase Germany's prestige
among Uncle Sans wards. 1t was with
pleasure, therefore, that the request of
Brazil for assistance in recognizing her
army along German lines was readily.
not to say cheerfully, granted.
The Kaiser is greatly pleased over the
very cordial letters received from King
George of England on the subject of
the crown princes coming visit to India.
The Kaiser has expressed his partic-
ular wish, that his eldest son shall not
be received in India as crown prince of
the German Empire, but as someone who
is to see and learn the greatest amount
possible in the time at his disposal.
The feud between the German Emperor
and the Duke of Cumberland is of long
standing and can be we'll understood
when it is remembered that the duke
would have been king had not Prussia
annexed Hanover in the time of Emperor
William |. 1t is said that Francis Joseph
of Austria hopes to heal this breach, and
to persuade the hostile parties, who are
kinsmen, to become friends. This tale
has been heard before, but will hardly
be believed till Ernest Augustus of Cum.
berland has been to Berlin as a feted
guest. 1t has been asserted that William
would willingly have made 1t up long
ago, and restored the Duchy of Bruins
wick to its lawful ruler-keeping Han
over, owing to circumstances beyond con-
troll. The couple met at the funeral of
King Christian TX of Denmark, when
the duke plainly showed he had no wish
to come to terms.
In order to increase interest in the
breeding of thoroughbreds in Germany
and thus better provide the best possible
for his cavalry the Kaiser has overcome
opposition to horse-racing. and Is con-
sldering the question of owning few
race horses himself.
The statistics of the movement of pop
ulation in the German Empire in 1908
have been published. The excess of
births over deaths was 1852.
AS compared with 1907. the birth-rate
per 1000 of the population has fallen
from 1872 to 80, while the death-rate has
risen from 1888 to 1871. For the first
time in many years past the decline in
the death-rate has been checked, al
though the decline in the birth-rate has
continued.
A series of atrocious crimes in Leipzig,
which at the time completely baffled
the police, was, 1t appears, the work of
two brothers Karl and Fritz Coppius,
who have just confessed their guilt.
The gravest of the offenses was the MUIR
der of a retired compositor and his wife
named Friedrich, in whose house one
of them had taken lodgings, and whom
they wished to get out of the way in
order that they might kill and rob a
postal official entrusted with the payment
of money orders. Luckily for him their
plot was frustrated by the fact that he
happened to call in company with another
postman.
The brothers have also admitted their
responsibility for an attempt to kill a
servant named Seyfferth, who had been
left alone In a house during the absence
of her employers. Karl Coppius's con-
fession further covers an attack on a
postal official who was felled with a
hammer and robbed of a bag containing
$4,000 and an attempt to cut the throat