Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-05-15
lIEW FROM FlInERllN md
i Drlsf Resume Of the Most In.
porta,tt Happenings In the
German Empire.

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Again there ID friction in Germany
shout the habit Of duellfng In the
army. Tho matter was aired In the
yeichstag, duels being denounced BY
the Catholics and Socialists. Kaiser
Wilhelm is not opposed to it. Even
the pope Of Rome was drawn into the
discussion. He said that duelling IL
inexcusable, but he added the platonio
remark that it may be explained by Z
lack OF modern law in Offering .
remedy for hurts to personal honor.
Tho program Of the division Of the
German feet which 10 to visit the
United Btates this summer to return
the call made By the second division
Of the United States Atlantic feet at
Nel last June. WAS announced as fol.
lows: The German division ia
scheduled to arrive May 80 ct Cape
Henry. whore Il will stay until June
!. On that date the visiting ships will
proceed to Hampton Roads, remaining
there until June 7. The squadron ii
due 70 reach New York June and
will anchor at that port until June 49,"
The new military Zeppelin airshiI
= fast approaching completion al
Friedrichshafen, and the work Of fill
ing it, balloonettss will be begun soon
This will make the second perfected
Zeppelin In military service, and the
third has been ordered. The war de
partment possesses also Zeppelin Of
IN older type. but it Is already obso
lets, or virtually so. The new airshiI
is expected at least to equal and pos
sibly surpass her sister airship In
speed. The specifications call for .
speed Of about thirty-eight miles Al
hour, but this will undoubtedly b..
greatly exceeded and will probably
reach forty-eight miles, the record Of
49," 40 the existing Zeppelin IL
known. - -
In 4 newspaper article. DR.. Carl
Peters, the we'll known African ex.
plorer. tells his countrymen that the
man who IL At present guiding the
German foreign policy ii 90 wax In
the hands Of the far smarter states.
men Of Great Britain. Even when
Lord Haldans's visit caused tho talk
Of IN Anglo-G German approachment.
Dr.. Peters knew, he declares, that the
British government had some hidden
motive for ''soaping" German states.
men. This motive, after all, was easy
to discover. The British government
was anxious to come before. parlia.
ment with peaceful foreign outlook.
Besides, it already knew of the threat.
ening coal strike, and the German
Michel was to be kept in a good humor
while the danger lasted. DR.. Peters
would like to know whether Germany,
which possesses excellent business
men, will ever produce diplomatists
of sufficient ability to contend with
the British.
Now we are told by Count Won
Elphberg that Kaiser Wilhelm is to be
done up in fine shape by 4 book which
Is to appear somewhere In Switzer.
land. The book will make great revel-
atoms, chief Of which are approximate.
ly as follows: The kaiser is an
over-rated and over-advertised man.
He is not heroic figure, but weak,
irresolute and essentially timid man,
who Is always ready to quit and al
ways does quite at every critical mo-
ment. His reign is long record Of
personal blunders. His widely vaunt-
ed versatile knowledge is purely
superficial. His alleged military gen.
ius is nonresident. His reputed abil-
ity as an administrator and ruler is
pure humbug. He is a faithless
friend, whose disloyalty to personal
ties is proverbial. He is man of
colossal deceit, fed on flattery and sur.
rounded by sycophant courtiers who
exploit to the uttermost his follies and
failings. Poor, miserable world, which
could not find out these kinks in the
kaiser's character until he had oc-
cupied his throne for more than three
and twenty years! e.
The betrothal Of the Archduchess
Ella, granddaughter of Kaiser Franz
Joseph, Is not without it's romantic
side. The kaiser had secret desire
last summer that the archduchess
should become ahanced to her cousin,
Prince Franz Joseph Of Bayern, son Of
the late Duke Carl Theodore, but
shortly before the arrival Of the Bay.
arian prince on q visit to the imperial
family at 1schl, Count George VALID
burg-zeil was appointed tutor to the
brothers Of the archduchess. The
archduchess soon felt deep attach
mont for the officer, who is now "a
years Of age, and whose serious man
ner pleased her greatly. On the ar
rival Of the Bavarian prince, the arch
duchess begged her parents to abandon
the projected marriage, but gave no
reason for her request. Some months
after, at Christmas. the archduchess
entrusted tho secret Of her heart to
her imperial grandfather, who not
only gave his assent Immediately, but
also interceded in her behalf with her
parents. The wedding Of the arch.
duchess will take place during the
summer, at Ischl.
Marisnbad. Bohemia, is locking for
ward to . visit from the king and
queen Of England this summer. kim
Edward used to stay ct Hotel Bristol.
But through local newspaper the
mayor Of Marisnbad made 1t known