The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
SOCIALIST GAINS
 D|SPLEASE KAISER Refuses to Receive Officers
 of Reichstag KAISER VISITS zoo
Would Like to Take Indian Tour and Visit ParisZSon Quarrels With His Multi-MilIionaire Father.
 Murderer Confesses
By MALCOLM CLARK

is not reconefled to the tremendous gains made by the socialists in the reichstag and loses no opportunity in showing his displeasure.
 He refused absolutely to receive the usual duty call of the president and two vice presidents of the reichstag which is made week after their election.
 The reason is that the first vice pres ident, Herr Scheidemann, who is so- cialist, declined to join in paying his re- spects to the Emperor. The president, Herr .1Saempf. and the second vice pres ident Herr Dove, who are both radicals, asked to be received. but the Kaiser de- clared that he would receive all the reich stag's officers Or none.
 It Is feared that this may lead to q serious situation for the Kaisers action, while of no consequence to the social ists, Is an affront to the whole refchstag. Tho socialists accept the situation phil osophieally. Herr Babel says:
 ''Conlrade Seheidemann will go to court if necessary on the occasions when the president of the reichstag is unable to go. Similarly he will propose cheers for the Emperor in the reichstag when the president is absent. The socialist party has declined to recognize Comrade Schiedmann's duty 10 accompany the president to court or to accept a declara-
 
 in the future not leave the house. but would rise from their places when cheers for the Emperor was given
 It is not improbab ble that the Kaiser would speedily bring the present reich stag to close were 1t not for the fear that another election would still further strengthen the position of the socialists.
 A typical story of German miltarisln comes from Schannburg Lppe. Prince Adolf has ordered the entire Seventh battalion of rifiemen to eight days con finement because they failed to give the military salute due to him as sovereign of the principalty.
 The Kaiser paid a second visit the other day to the annual exhibition of antlers in the Zoo exhibition hall, which is always opened on his birthday Among first prize winners for particularly nu- merous pointers or for antlers of special beauty are Kaiser. the King of Wurtem- berg, the King of Saxony and that mighty Nimrod Prince Pless very in- teresting collection of Indian trophies tiger skins, ivory tusks and so forth brought by the crown prince from his recent tour. is always the center of large group of spectators and his imperial majesty looked at his sons show with obvious interest and perhaps a little envy.
 It is well known the Kaiser would love to be able to go off on an Indian tour and it is not impossible that he will do so some day. Another great wish of the Kaiser's, by the way, Is to pay a visit to Paris, and this is, perhaps, even more impractcable than the longer trip. His majesty has not been to Gay Farce since his very young and fallow days-offi- cally. that is to say. Gossip that may only be whispered says that some years
 
 not be accounted for He was not i'll; he was nowhere to be found. and gossip adds in whisper that in Paris a gentle man with turned down moustache, but otherwise very much like his Prussian majesty put in delightful 24 hours. settlement of his financial affairs by his father on such scale that an income of G6000 year would accrue to him has been scornfuly refused by the eldest son of Herr August Thyssen, the multi-mil- lionaire. who is known in Germany as the steel and iron king on account of his vast wealth. The young mans debts aggregate some $3, 750000. and there has been much unpleasantness between fa- ther and son in consequence. The son, who is now serving a sentence in the fortress of Madeburg for duelling, was declared a bankrupt year ago. his lia- bilities consisting principally Of loans in- cured in the course of his luxurious life < creditors that he would pay all legiti- mate claims if his son would renounce his right to any further inheritance and declare himself satisfied with an annual allowance of $30,0o0.
 Writing to the newspaper regarding his fathers offer, Herr Thyssen says: What should I do with an income of $so0Oo? For personal requirements I do not need more than 5000. But that I should -renounce my rights as heir to yourself and my mother-that Is some thing you cannot expect of me. The, size of my share has been very variously es- timated. but no expert denies that it is less than S1S,15o000.
 Please pay all my creditors, not only those you consider legitimate, but all those claims the courts found correct, Then l will give up my rights under the arrangement you have already made but you must In return guarantee me my legal share of your fortune. Every shil- ling you pay my creditors shall be de- ducted from my inheritance"
 The refusal of young Thyssen to nego- tiate with his father. whose fortune is somewhere between si5,ooo.ooo and S0o.- 100000. is due to the fact that his credit is still unimpaired. A number of people shave offered to lend him anything he wants up to million or two.
 In the quarrel which ensued the son contends that his father has no legal power to cut him off with shilling Under the German law a mans descen- dants can in any case claim one-half of that portion of his estate which would have fallen to them in the event of in testacy. This probably explains in a large part the recalcitrancy of the young CT Thyssen and is also mainly accounta- ble for the anxiety of his creditors to keep him alive for if he survives his father he is bound to inherit a large share of the latter's rapidly aecumulatlng millions.
 The murder in Jakobstrasse. Berlin, of a jeweller named Schultz, his wife and his daughter. has had sequel In the arrest and confession of oswald Treakler. a young locksnlith of Zittau. in Saxony, The way in which the murderer was finally detected after eluding the police so long is as curious as Sherlock Holmes story.
 A Dresden pawnbroker saw an adver- fisement in a newspaper published at sZittau, small town in Saxony, oqering old jewery for sale.
 He wrote in the ordinary way of bus mess, but his suspicious were aroused by the extreme caution displayed in the reply he received and he communicated with the police, who traced the adver- tiser The police arrested him, but he persisted in a denial of the crime. The / Berlin commissioner of police. however, was too clever for him, for while exam ming him early one morning he sudden ly asked: t -e <r'rhat did you do with the bank book?" Caught unayares in the tran. Trenkler replied: T burned It.. He im- medtately realized that he.pad1rsined his ease and made a fuii confession He is ft .I.s