The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-02
KAISER INSpECTS
COLONY STATUE
Small Army Post Found
Demoralized
Able PITON is FOUND
Tells Police Chief That He Was Kid
naped-Malta Conference Pointed
Out as Demonstrating Need
of German Action
ny FREDERICK WERNER

Berlin, July 1.-(Speeial Yesterday
afternoon the Kaiser inspected the APP
proved bronze statue of the famous
Huguenot leader Admiral Coligny. which
he is presenting to the town of Wilhelms-
haven. This is the second statue of
Coligny which his majesty has erected in
recent years. the first being in front of his
Berlin Schloss
Coligny Is represented In full Spanish
armor In his right hand is his uplifted
sword. and his left is holding some doeu-
ment which he is pressing to his heart
The Kaiser is fond of referring to Col
igny as his ancestor. and, as matter
of fact, the great Huguenot was the
great grandfather OF the Electress Lulse
Henriette, mother of the first King of
Prussia. This fact is engraved on the
pedestal of the statue.
1t Is stated that the original draft for
the sculptor was made by the Kajsers
own hand.
General Martinoff. chief of the frontier
guards in the Amur territory, has issued
a report describing the decentralization of
small Cossack post at Abagaitui. consist
ing OF dozen men under the command of
Captain Dobrohotoff.
The captain exercises no discipline over
his men, who spent most of their time in
drinking bouts, and two of them actually
died last January from alcoholic poison
ing. On Easter eve third soldier was
found lying dead drunk in a neighboring
village with the thermometer only few
degrees above zero.
In March there was a fight between
sergeant and one of his men named Volk
The latter had the drum of an ear
broken When he left the hospital the
soldiers were laying in their supply Of
vodka for the Easter holidays, and Cap
tain Dobrohotoff presented them with
| over two quarts of the spirit.
On Easter Sunday the senior private
came TO blows with Volk. who got the
worst of the encounter. He was bound
hand and foot and then badly handled
and thrown under a bed. He managed to
loosen his bonds and. selling rifle. shot
his antagonist dead.
The commander of the sotnia, Captain
| Oberi, who was stationed so or 90 miles
away. was informed of the occurrence,
but 10 days elapsed before he and the col
| onel of the Fourth Cossack regiment came
| to Abagaitui.
One of the men died on January 10. The
body was placed In the mess room, stu
ated between the dormitory and the kitch-
en-. and a postmortem examination was
not made until five days later. Then the
body was put in a coffin, which was taken
to the stables, where 1t remained over a
fortnight
General Martinoff has reprimauded the
colonel of the Fourth Cossack regiment.
has removed Captain Oberi from the COM
mand OF the sotnia, and has ordered the
prosecution of Captain Debrohoton.
The German press reproduees conspieu-
newspaper of the result of the Malta con-
ference.
The National Zeitung publishes an ar
tice by Signor d Palma, chairman OF the
naval budget committee of the italian par
Lament, dealing with the Flight for the
Mediterranean" Signor Palma says that
the Malta conference emphasizes the i'm
portance of prompt action by Germany's
allies with view to maintaining the
in the Mediterranean.
He points out that the concentration of
British and German naval forces in the
North Sea, for the terrible clash COM
pels Italy and Austria to possess for them
selves as soon as possible naval
strength at least equivalent to that of
France. Italys strength composed with
that of Austria must remain in the pro-
portion of ~ to l. The first duty of
Italy after the end of the war in Tripoli
must be the rejuvenation and expansion
of her feet.
Admiral Won Roster ALSO referred to
the position in the Mediterranean at
the Navy league meeting yesterday
He declared that even IL in the event
of a war against the triple entente
Germany could reckon on the concen-
tration of the bulk of the French fleet
in the Mediterranean, the political sit
ua ton might change overnight and
leave the French fleet free to abandon
the Mediterranean.
The Able Piton. tho priest of Anglers
who mysteriously disappeared and was
believed to have been murdered, 7 has
been discovered at Lyons. The story he
has told to the police there is one
worthy to figure among the widest and
most improbable incidents of a detec-
tive story
At II o'clock this morning a priest
well known in Lyons, one of the faith
ers of the Carthusian congregation
asked for admission to the office of
the chief of the Lyons detective force
NJ. Adler. He was accompanied by an
other man. dressed poorly In dark
clothes, whose face was pale and drawn
and working with emotion. IL was this
other man who spoke.
1T am the Abbe Piton, the priest
of St. Serge church at Anglers" nc
said. II don't know whether you have
been informed OF my disappearance
from Anglers"
"Oh. yes" said NJ Adler, 1--WE be-
lieved you to have been murdered"
II was not murdered but kid
Mapped" said the Able Piton. II have
been the victim of an odious plot. L
"a off N Fr,n