The Detroit times., 1912-02-16
|RMAN COURT is IN
|IONFuSIOA AS RESULT
or SOCIALIST VICTORY
User Determined To Defy the
Opposition in Reichstag the
faiHeFiH Predicts Peril
|RlNcE is AGAINST HER
5rown Prince Opposes Father
and Demands New Constitu-
tion--A Hopeless Division

BERLIN, Feb. 16.--The sweeping
.oClaIist victories In the Reichstai
|octions have given rise TO divided
onnsels at the imperial court The
<aiser, according 70 remarks made
several semi-public dinners anC
Incheons-that Is, occasions oil
<hich number of distinguished
/ucets are invited to eat at the i'm
.eriaI table-has declared his deter
nination TO defy the opposition and
rotoed with HIS plans for increasing
. be army and navy. Failing the sub
oIssion of the Reichstag, he will dis
oIyo it repeatedly. says special tc
NE New York American.
The Empress sees danger in this
<oIicy, and she Is imploring her i'm
|eriaf and autocratic husband 10 fore
tall revolution by making constitu
ioual concessions. She predicts peril
10 the dynasty IL her husbands blind
Ind stubborn resistance TO popular
Iemand continues. The Crown Prince
xoes further. He demands the pro-
-1nikation OF new constitution
>yranting a full parliamentary govern.
<neut. His attitude is attributed not
20 any enthusiasm for democracy, but
10 determination always TO be in
Imposition TO his own father. The
femainder OF the imperial family is
divided. Prince Henry backs up the
Kaiser and autocracy, while the
Crown Princess supports her hus-
band The courtiers and councillors
Df the Kaiser are also divided, and
ConfuFion Is complete. ------
Kaiser Again Lampooned.
One of the features of the election
contest Just concluded was the circu-
Iafion anonymously of tens OF thou.
oands of cartoons ridiculing the Kais-
~ as a descendant of medieval
barber.
The Kaiser's pedigree reveals as
one OF his distant forebears a hum
he barber, who did business In q
lack street in Paris some five hundred
years ago. This historic fact was ex-
D1oited to ridicule the Kaiser's
''divine right" to rule absolutely
without parliamentary control over
sixty million Germans, and thus TO
promote the election of the Socialists,
who demand the abolition of auto
Cracy. Wherever found the cartoons
were confiscated by the police author
tiles. The authors and publishers
OF the document haven't been detect
ed. bot there is little doubt that the
socialists printed it secretly-there
Erc several dozen Socialistic dailies
III Cermany--and distributed 1t with
similar caution.
AZ certain Socialistic meetings held
81 celebration of the electoral vic
fdrIef Il Is being asserted that the
I<hlser contributed q million marks,
CT S250,000, to the Anti-Socialist
League TO help in the fight against
the Socialist candidates throughout
fic country.
With reference to the proposal that
Germany and Great Britain should
divide up between themselves Por-
.usal's oversee possessions, including
tho Azores, Instructions have been
given to that department of the Ger
man Foreign once which deals with
relations with America, to
draw up a careful memorandum ex-
the attitude of the United
States toward Germany's acquisition
OF the Azores.
DelIcacy Over Azores.
Some apprehension has been caus-
Cd IN German government circles by
. grave warning that any attempt by