| Show BRIGHT BITS FROM BERLIN Abyssinnian and Egyptian Questions Are the Absorbing Absorb-ing Themes WILLIAMS LATE VISIT Germany Desirous of Much Greater Liberty Five Thousand Socialists Anarchists and TJltraIUuHcnls Celeliratc the Berlin Revolution of IS41 and the Paris Commune Iterlin Pros Club Indignant at tIle RciuhstUK Charges Against Dr Peter The Agrarian Debate I BERLIN March 21The Abyssinian Abyssin-ian and Egyptian questions are the subjects of a great deal of negotiation on the part of the dreibund Germany in response to Italys representations I supports Great Britain although the bitterness manifested by the former I towards the latter country is not effaced The German newspapers I however generally support the Nile expedition I became known today that France through 1 Herbette the French ambassador am-bassador here sounded Germany during dur-ing the week as to whether the idea of a European conference to regulate the Egyptian affair would be acceptable I accepta-ble but Marshal Von Bieberstern the minister for foreign affairs replied that evacuation of Egypt was considered con-sidered a strictly British affair and must be settled between the interested parties I is generally believed that Emperor Williams visit to Italy is connected with the renewal of the dreibund and the suggested modifications thereof and that he may meet Emperor Francis I Joseph as well a King Humbert before be-fore he returns In addition to the alteration of Italys position Germany I is I isDESIROUS DESIROUS OF GREATER LIBERTY to enable her to place herself in act ac-t cord xvith ussia and the far east The emperor and empress have put I off their departure for Italy until Monday Mon-day and his majesty may now meet Emperor Francis Joseph at Vienna instead of at Genoa in company with King Humbert as at first proposed I is understood that the plans of his majesty may be further changed unless un-less the agitation in Italy shown by the recent excited behavior of the deputies quiets down Indeed further demonstrations in the chamber may possibly indefinitely postpone the meeting meet-ing of the emperors and King Hum bert Emperor William yesterday dined with the officers of the curassiers of the guard and toward midnight began talking with the bandmaster about his local marches later his majesty took the baton from the bandmasters hand and conducted Hohenfriedberger March by Frederick the Great At its conclusion the emperor said I is grand like that I will have it like that throughout my army FIVE THOUSAND SOCIALISTS anarchists and ultra radicals celebrated celebrat-ed the Berlin revolution of 1848 and the Paris commune on Wednesday last The graves of the socalled martyrs of 1848 were visited and thousands of decorations dec-orations and scarlet ribbons some of them bearing revolutionary mottoes were seized by the police The Vorwaerts organ of the socialists social-ists issued a special number which was unusually aggressive and it was confiscated by the police who seized a special edition issued upon the same occasion by the anarchist order the Sozialist The reichstag jubilee banquet tonight is almost wholly ignored by the leading lead-ing German newspapers owing to the fact that they have been snubbed and slighted by the officials No one of the few editors and correspondents invited to attend have accepted the invitation and the Berlin press club has passed resolutions EXPRESSING ITS INDIGNATION at the manner in which the press has been treated Besides the present members of the reichstag 140 former members of that body including 41 of the original members mem-bers will attend the banquet There will only be two toasts The Emperor and Prince Bismarck u Tne nrst popular collection towards an increase in the strength of the German navy was started by the Deut scher Verband on Sunday and it turned turn-ed out to be a signal failure throughout through-out Germany showing that the nation does not favor the scheme The huge Bismarck monument the cost of which was defrayed by public i I subscription is being erected on the shore of the Starbeiger lake Bavaria The socialist labor associations of Germany are going to hold a congress in Berlin on May 4 with the view of forming a central body to regulate systematic assistance of the unemployed Emperor William on Wednesday last purchased three handsome purchased thre h8ndsome wrought iron gates which formed the portals of the German section dC the Worlds fair The price paid was 60000 marks Instructions have been issued to examine ex-amine witnesses inEast Africa in connection con-nection with the charges brought AGAINST DR PETERS who is said to have made very damag ing verbal remarks at Moshi and Zanzibar Zan-zibar soon after the two executions of 1892 One of his servants who is now in Berlin has made a deposition to the chief of the colonial office Dr Kayser There ha been a large increase in I the number of cases of influenza and pneumonia in Berlin lately and there I have been fiftythree deaths from influenza in-fluenza during the past week I The Menondite soldier TJuroener has I again been arrested and sentenced for the thlrd time for refusing to bear arms He had just been released after serving his second term of a year in prison and had joined the Alexander regiment The United States ambassador to Germany MR E F UHL will arrive here at an inconvenient i L I time and the emperor will be absent until May and Mr Uhl thus cannot be presented to him Consequently until I the emperors return to Berlin the I United States charge daffairs Mr J B Jackson will continue to represent I the United States in the eyes of the German government The agrarian debate in the Prussian diet on Monday was venomously directed direct-ed against America and one of the conservatives con-servatives asked what steps the government gov-ernment intended to take to include American infected meat and cattle Herr Mendel declared that diseased cattle were killed at Chicago the sanitary san-itary condition there being he claimed defective and demanded that the import im-port of American cattle be absolutely prohibited and that strict a bacteriological bacteriolo-gical department can b created |
