The Washington herald., 1911-01-29
Ten Military Officers Will Be
Reviewed by Kaiser.
OUTBURSTS AGAINST GERMANY
Authorities Have Failed to Win
Over People in Annexed Provinces.
Because of Item on Programme
Objected to by Police.
By STEVEN BURNETT.

Berlin, Jan. cS.-The smallest military
review Berlin has ever seen is shortly to
be held on the Tempelhofer Field, when
| the Kaiser will hold a special review of
German military officers, who have quail
fled in aviation.
At present they are ten in number, but
| they are busily engaged in imparting
what they have learned to colleagues. 1t
I is further reported that the monarch'S
| interest in the military aspect of avia-
ton has been greatly stimulated in recent
months by the oral reports made to him
on the matter at mis- own request by Gen.
Heeringen, minister of war, and Baron
Lynchker chief OF his military cabinet
At the last maneuvers the Emperor ex-
pressed his intention of having aero
planes employed at the operations which
will be held in the autumn of the present
year, and it seems not improbable that
they will then do service, not only for
the army. but also for the battle fleet,
which is to play part in the movements.
After forty years of incessant work the
German authorities have not succeeded
in making the people OF the annexed
provinces of Alsace-Lorraine feel more
friendly toward their conquerors than
they did Immediately after the Franco
Prussian war; and frequent anti-German
outbursts testify to the feelings that
slumber in the hearts of the people of
this German ''Reichsland." who were re-
Gently granted kind of constitution as
last attempt to win them over.
The latest of these outburStS is reported
from Metz. where the other day THE
Club de Lorraine Sportive,' which is
affiliated with the Association du Sou
venir Francois nad made arrangements
fp,- Ha Tarn ,ir,rrS y,rff t~a
police objected to che of the items on the
programme, and refused the necessary
permission.
In consequence of this prohibition the
proprietor of the hotel declined to allow
the members of The club to have access
to the hall which they had hired for the
occasion. However. some 800 young men,
who had assembled outside the building.
took possession of the room. where they
proceeded with the performance. An in
spector of police drew the attention of
those present to the ilegality of the gath
ering, but his admcnition was received
with derisive shouts. He then had the
hall cleared.
Those who had been elected formed in
the street outside. and. singing the Sam
bre ct Meuse" march. and uttering cries
of "Vive In lorraine tramped off to the
Ney Monument. By the time it had
reached this spot the procession had
swollen from 500 to 1000 people. One of
the demonstrators delivered a speech be-
meath the monument. and his words were
received with loud applause and shouts
of ''Vive la France"
An officer in citizens clothes who boxed
the ears of q man who uttered this senti-
ment, was attacked by bystanders, and
the police had to interfere to rescue him.
The Marseilaise was also sung. Finally
an attempt was made to disperse the
assembly. but the crowd assumed so
threatening an attitude that the police
deemed it prudent to call in the assist
ance Of the guard, who apeared on the
scene with fixed bayonets and cleared the
streets.
At several points the police had hand
to-hand scuffies with the demonstrators,
Of whom six or eight were injured. Sew
eral persons were arrested.
Cases of fragrant ill-treatment of the
rank and file by noncommissioned officers
in the German army are becoming less
frequent every year, but now and then.
through reports of military trials, We
still catch glimpses of Prussian brutality.
That the punishment by no means fits
the crime, according to American ideas.
Is shown by the case of noncommis-
stoned warrior named Weidner, who re-
Gently got two weeks middle arrest'-a
sentence which corresponds to our Amer
lean arrest in quarters-under the follow
ing circumstances.
He was accustomed to choose certain
recruits winter mornings, and before they
had their breakfast. to send them out to
the parade ground pump, clad only in
their shirts, to, scrub the barrack furni-
ture, and when the work was apparently
done would order them to begin 1t over
again. He would enjoy the spectacle from
his dormitory window, and on the re-
cruits return would make a throne Of a
table, and set the recruits to get warm
by hopping on their knees on The door
about him.