The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-13
SOCIALISTS SCORE. ]. UNKEPT PROMISES
 OF GERMAN KAISER

Berlin. June 13-The Socialists and other liberal parties in the Pruss1an Diet are protesting against ''the long unkept promises of the King.
 More than six years ago the Emper- or, as King of Prussia, declared it to be his desire that a modern franchise system be established in the state, to take the place of the existing three class, non-secret ballot, which Bis mark once termed 'sthe most iniquftous system in the world Since Cham cellor von Buelow presented the King desire to the Diet, only one attempt, and that wholly unsuccessful, has been made by the government to carry out the Kings wishes. Minister von Loe- bell, the new Incumbent of the minis try of the interior now announces that he does. not propose to present any measure this year for alteration of the voting system.
 {. The liberal parties had hoped better things from von Ieoebell. who was von Buelow's right-hand man when the latter was chancellor and who was in office when the Kings wishes were made known to the Diet. The Con- servatives are greatly pleased with won Loebelrs stand, and the more SO since they had feared possible liberal tendencies on his part.
 The Reichstag has sustained the Col onfal authorities in their recent dts possession of the negroes at Dua.la the chief port of the German colony of Kamerun, in Africa, in order to make a. modern sanitary city there. The protest from the negroes was at first received in Germany -sympathetically but Dr. Solf, Secretary for the Colon ies made such a. convincing defence of the proceedings that the Reichstag a large majority, only the Socialists voting against then4
 Another phase of the controversy has arisen. Recently the German Col onial government arrested Rudolf Bell, chief of the Dualas, on a charge of treason. It is alleged that he went into the interior to Roment an uprising against stf1e Germans with a. view t6 attaching Kamerun to the adjacent English colony of>Nigeria- Tn connec- ton with this affair another arrest has just been made at Berlin. A native 5enE their case to the Refchstag, has been sent to prison, and it Is under stood he will be sent back to Kamerun for trial
 Plans are, under consideration for three new underground railway sys- tems in Greater Berlin, at an estin1at- ed total cost of $6o,O0O, 900. One line, from the northeast to the south west, touching at the Royal Opera House. probably will be bult in the near future. The other two are not yet beyond the stage of preliminary consideration. One would start in the Grunewa,ld, pass under the Bran denbura Gate, and Inter den Linden, and. then branch off to the southwarcI. The other is a proposed extension of the existing Schoenberg Underground Railway both to the north and south. It would connect the southern su- burbs directly with the main lines of the city.
 It is announced that the five years task of deepening and wid ening of the Baltic North Sea Canal so as to ac- commodate the largest battleshfps will be practically completed by sKie1 Week. the latter part Of this month.
 The looks at the two ends. which do not raise the water level, but simply serve to prevent tidal currents,N have been greatly enlarged and now ex- ceed the dimensions of the Panama locks:
 The new width of the canal is 333 feet, and it's depth 36 feet. At four points the width will be such that the largest warships can easily turn around in it and reverse their course, thus enabling them to obey any sudden change of orders.
 The little viIlageIof Crina, near Bit terheld,s has risen to distinction by an official survey showing it to be the geographical center of the German Empire. The village proposes to set