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| not afterwards found in your matrl-
! monial life. May Gods blessing be on
you both, especially in the next month
when you are going to be crowned un-
! der the admirins assistance of the
world. I thank you most heartily for
your kind letter you sent me through
Werder the day / left for the Medi-
/ terranean. He was so happy over his
| stay in Petersburg, having seen so
many well known faces. I quite agree
with what you say in the end of your
letter about the Britishers, their fan
farronades against US make them su-
premely ridiculous. and make no i'm
preston on me. The worse they are
hampered in Africa, the better for US
in Asia. Now goodbye, Dear -Nicky,
best love to Alix. Goodspeed from your
affectionate cousin and friend.
WILLY"
(Prince Bismarck, first chancellor of
the empire, who was deposed by the
kaiser, began series of newspaper
revelations in the fall of 1896, dis
closing the existence of a secret treaty
between Russia and Germany from
1884 to 1890, which assured the neu-
trality of Russia in the event of a
German war with France, and the
neutrality of Germany in the event of
Austrian aggression. against Russia.
| The German chancellor was Prince
Hohenlohe-S e-Schillingsfuerst. who sue
ceeded Caprivi and remained in office
until 1900. NJ Hanotaux was the
French minister of foreign affairs.)
Explains Treatment Of Bismarck.
'LETZLINGEN. November -. 1896
Dearest Nicky: Vladimir is So kind
as to take these lines with him to
hand them over to you and will also
| be the bearer of my warmest 'grusse'
(regards). l am glad you are safe
home again and that the brilliant
| tour you made through Europe has
| not tired you too much.
Il am deeply sorry for the awful
B1smarckian behavior which-though
it is coup solely aimed against me
personally-neverthele represents a
| breach of loyalty to your government
and casts slur on the memories of
my beloved grandfather as well as on
| that of your beloved father I have
already instructed my uncle the chan
cellor how to speak in parliament and
| nope you will be satisfied with the
manner in which the whole treasona-
bic affair is treated. I suppose that by
TINS last stroke of the prince and by
the shameless way he is treating me
IN his press-especially trying to
make the people believe that l was
and still am under English influence
the clearer heads will begin to un-
derstand that had reasons to send
.nis uruly man with his mean char
acter out OF Office. I place implicit
faith in the hopes that you will kindly
trust me as you did till now and that
nothing has or can change between us
Two since we arranged our line of ac-
tlon at Breslau. Vladimir has come
from Paris with the best of impress
| sion that all is quiet there, which I
can corroborate from the reports of
my ambassador who is on the best of
terms with the government and is
quite 1ull OF admiration for the cana
bil1ties and sangfroid of Hanotaux
The latter, I hear, is rather nervous
ABOUT Turkey, but as 1 have heard
nothing alarming from there l sun
! pose there is no real cause. He, /
near. is strongly opposed to any con-
ference about Turkey, and in that is
perfectly right.
Joint Action ON Leprosy.
on our frontier in Lithuania we
several cases of leprosy. Some neonle
nave brought the infection over from
the next places in the Baltic prov
inces. l consequently have ordered a
hospital to be built at Memel to place
the poor wretches in it. The illness is
a terrible one. and very catching. and
propose to you whether our frontier
provincial authorities could not com
pine In watching and looking for
cases. by combining some doctors for
medicine supervision?
we have had magnificent sport and
nne weather and were very glad to
see vladimir here in his old place.
with best love to Alix, your affection
| ate friend and cousin. WILLY"
! tIhe kaiser succeeded in his plan to
attach a personal aid de camp to the
czar and sent Col. Won Moltke for the
task. The following letter was written
| before the outbreak of the war between
Greece and Turkey in which Euro
pean diplomacy played a considerable
part, and in which the keynote was
sounded by Russia. Greece landed
armed men In Crete and the powers
| condemned this action, blockaded
Crete and yet allowed more Greek
bands to land. GREECE then called out
| its reserves and Turkey began to mo-
| blllze: The central powers proposed
| these were vetoed by France, Italy
and Great Britain, which led Greece
to believe that she would receive sup
port in her campaign against Turkey.
Later in March, when hostilities OPEN
ed. the kaiser proposed a joint block
ade Of Piraeus and Volo, but France
and Great Britain declined to take
part. Eventually the powers agreed
/ to keep out of the war. but to see
| that the aggressor did not reap any
| material benefits from it. The war
and the subsequent peace showed how
thoroughly the cabinets of Europe
controlled the situa ton. In the above
! letter the kaiser also suggests that he
be invited to Petersburg. He visited
the capital in August in company
with the Austrian emperor, few
weeks before President F'aure of
France arrived there. The latter
event proved most significant. for 1t
signalized the formal closing of the
alliance between France and Russia.
which helped defeat Germany in 1914.
This was severe blow for the kais-
er's diplomacy.
Grec0-Turkish War.
BERLIN. March 3, 1S97.-My dear
Nicky: AS you kindly permitted. Col.
v. Moltke will in a few days have
the great honor to be able to pay his
respects to his imperial chief. This
gives me the opportunity Of sending
you a few lines of warm friendship
in these trying times. am most
deeply grateful for tho loyal. clear
and statesmanlike way in which you
grasped this most unfortunate Cretan
affair, and feel justly proud that our
views on this subject are exactly
alike. From the family point Of
view you must have gone through
moments which may have taxed your
affections to the utmost. and the re-
solve to do as you did must have
been como to after many an internal
pang. But you were perfectly right.
And you SEQ by tho result that your
'demarche' has rallied ali tho pow
! ers. willing or not. to q common
demonstration, which will. I hope.
make the peace of Europe an un-
/ I'll {2NU ~LA