The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-05
DIP LOnATIC SKY
| CLEAR IN EUROPE
Peace Is Reigning Everywhere.
and Outlook for Future
Is Bright.
FERMENT IN HIGH SCHOOLS
Storm That Threatened Over
Alodcrnist Oath Has
Blown Over
u, InEpEnIci1 WERNER
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Especial oblc 10 The Tiinek.Dt.n,tn,
Berlin. March I.-curoDc is SIN ~
toying all the blessings OF a clear
olpiomatic sky Peace is rcisninr
everywhere between the powers ~,
lamb Is slumbering peacefnl,v nav, ~ ~
.he lion, ana the OUTLOOK for the fu,uro
mas never been brighter Even ZION,
hreece no disturbing news is coming
ana Wnat wc hear about the rising ~
me Arabs In Yemen against Turkey. ia
evidently wildly colored by news
thlfsty correspondents
Italy Is preparing 10 celebrate her
jubilee as 4 nation. ana 10 receive ~
heF guests most of tho crowned heads
OF Europe during the summer IN spit,
81 tho protests OF tho Vatican. which
arc however, daily growing weaker
aud the Pope may even decide 10 close
MS eyes 10 the visits or Emperor
francis joseph OF Austria and Kaiser
Wilhelm, whose presence in Rome a,
representatives Of countries most
closely politically allied with ltal%, is
particularly wished for.
In Portugal, events arc eyo!yinl,
more peacefully than for many weeks
an1 II appears that the young republ..
mas safely passed the danger point an,l
the people are beginning to realize.
that the government must have tina
10 carry out the important reforms i.
has pledged itself to-
Most important OF these Is undoubt.
cdly the separation OF church ana
state, and here the republican govern
ment Is acting with praiscWor;hy wiz.
dom. rhc minister Of foreign aHairs
who has drafted the government Bill
has assured the people ,hnt all creed,
VIII be allowed absolute freedom, ana
VIII be permitted TO maintain special
schools in which religion win be
taught subject 10 Very lenient re.
s,riction BY the authorities. The min
listers promise 10 give back to ,Aa
proper owners all property belonging
to foreign corporations cou6scated at
The time OF tho revolution or pay full
Indemnity. The state council Is still
considering the election laws which
arc TO contain the following main
principles: Tho fun right Of suffrage
is to be granted 10 every adult person
able to read and write. and among the
iillteratc to all heads or families and
all persons able to prove that they
mako ihe, own living, so that the right
OF suffrage Will be practically univcr-
sal
The ferncnt in the high schools
throughout the empire is waving In
tense. The students make Two de-
mands: First. ths return Of their COM
ra6es, Of whom somo are impris oncd.
others expelled and other rusticated
for having taken an active part in dis
turbances: secondly. the annulment OF
the decree forbidding meetings within
university precincts. The rector. vice
rector and administrator OF Moscow
University have rendered their resis-
nations The University Council have
requested the government TO close the
establishment until the autumn.
Some OF the professors at Moscow
We're obliged Yesterday TO deliver their
lectures under the protection Of the
POLICE; others refused TO do so and LETT
lures under the protection OF the door
Keepers. In many cases the students
stopped the lectures altogether and dis
persed professors and listeners BY NIL
inns the apartments With sitting fumes
The strikers sometimes entered tho
back door OF tho lecture hall. In other
cases they smashed the trent doors.
The students at the yVomen's Uni
versity, having decreed 10 strike. we're
warned by the rector and professors
that that Persistence in their resolution
The professors. besought them to re.
verse their decision and for this pur-
pose organized referendum. which
resulted, at late hour last night in
an enormous majority for strike
Presuma bly,. tho Women's University
VIII now disappear for o considerable
time.
This agitation is disepproved By tho
Conservatives as mutinous Ind by Lib
erals as inopportune
The storm that threatened to trouble
the relations between Professionalism
ard Catholicism In Germany regarding
the Aiodernist oath imposed by the
io s mas nlown eyer It was chiefly
trS, though In part also to the Po@e's
devotion to tradition The great aim
Of nolit.icians who are "agin the gov
vative Centrist majority. which at
present enables government to be car
iied on. and consequently any pretext
ate the Centrists. the Modeynist oath
was an excellent one. for 1t seriously
iinIfringed on the imperial secular au
minister to the Vatican. as reported.
seemed to supply the politicians with
s 'pL, fuel for the fame. The re
exact one--the official explanation is
that it referred to tho past. not to
me present or future-and the pnpal
letter to Cardinal Fischer. which limited
mat the German professors would bn
cowards If they did not take the
oath. For the moment therefore. re-
llglous Germany Is at peace again.
German musicians arc much inter-
Petersburg that the Tsar has commits
stoned, tho composer Ipolitoff Ivanoff
and he poet -dra matist KoloErigowa.
noth OF Moscow, to create Jubilee
opera III comnemoration OF the forth
coming 300th anniversary OF th,, foun-
dhtion of the Roumanoff dynasty. The
work Is to be all allegorica aptheosis
OF the Russian roigning house. based
upon actual events in the lives ami
times Of its representatives rho operd
VIII be staged with, the lavishness for
which the st. Petersburg Imperial
Opera House isfamed. and will be rep
resented on the first day OF the Jubilee
ceremonies. Other Russian cities. not
ably MOSCOW, Warsaw. Riga and Odes-
= nor fa5 10 y. ~ !.
work Immediately after tito premiere
at st. PETERSBURG: lE-l-