The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10
Emperor Criticised for Ded-
 icating Monument
VERY POOR WINE CROP
Vintners Complaining of Conditions Due to Rain, Frost and Legisla- tion-"Spy Fever" in Ger
 many Is Increasing

Berlin November s--(special. )-Emper- or Williams pride in his French ancestry was again shown by his unveiling a sec- ond monument to Admiral Coligny at Will helmshaven The admiral was one of the emperor's forhears who was famous as French Protestant military leader and was slain in the St. Bartholomew's mas sacre.
 The emperor has in this way displeased some of his ultra a-patriotic subjects, and by his speech dedicating the monument he has called down upon himself as well sharp criticism from Catholics, who ob- jeet not only to his glorification of the Protestant leader as "a hero not only of war but of faith" but to his being held uo as model for the German navy.
 The Wilhelmshaven monument repre- sents Colgny at the most critical mo- ment of the Spanish siege of St. Quen- tin in France. In his speech the em- peror described the incident as follows: "A breach had already been made through the main wall of the fortress. The commander of the besieging army called upon Coligny to eapitulate. This
 
 thrown across the moat. Coligny wrote brief refusal, concluding with the words, We have king, and hurled the spear back with this message. There upon the fortress was stormed but the attack was brilliantly repulsed."
 In concluding his speech the emperor said: My comrades of the navy, we men of war will take Admiral Coigny as our example. Temptation meets us in every situation, in every class. in every age. If at such times we have the courage to fight like Coligny when he wrote, We have a king then we shall stand the test. So l hope this monument will encourage and strengthen each of you who pass by it, young and old, on your journey through life. that you will think aboub preserving, both inwardly and outwardly fidelity to your king. and that you can only be willing to do this when you preserve your fidelity to your heavenly king"
 The poor and scanty German wine crop this year has caused lamentations among the vintners
 The great amount of rain in August and September, with the prevailing cool. cloudy weather, prevented the grapes from assmilating the natural sugar, which result depends upon abundant sum- ny weather To make matters still worse heavy frosts fell in most parts of the wine districts in the first week in Octo- Der, which ruined the vintage entirely in large areas and in all prematurely killed the leaves and greatly damaged the grapes. Most gloomy reports from 70 ief, i,, ba I, papers, according to which the vintage will be one of the poorest ever known Last years vintage reached the unusual value of about $l1 .000,000, or more than | double that of 1910 but the value of this years product will probably fall be- 1 low that of 1909, which was valued at 1 less than s4,000000.
 | The vintners now complain that the wine law passed in 1909 makes their po- 1 sition this year much worse than ever before 1t contains stringent provisions controlling the improvement of wines by sweetening them. Where sweeten- | ing is allowed at all it restricts the use | of sugar water to one-fifth of the orig nal volume of the wine and the new
 product must be treated prior to De-
 cember 5 From all sections in the wine districts the vintners have been taking action looking toward a modification of these provisions, asserting that without
 additional sugar, this years wine will be
 quite unmarketable, and the Prussian minister of agriculture has promised
 on his part to do everything possible to meet their wishes. In Wurttemberg, however the government seems unwilling
 to take any action.
 Spy fever is increasing in inten- sity in Germany. and the government | continues ifs epergafie campaio1 a against