Show IN WHILHELMS LAND 9 TheBreeze Created by Sclmae bles Arrest I TEE HOTEL DEL MONTE ARSON Clovelaml8 Denial The Montreal ridod MltiRRtliig lienteentf Sen tenco Otliec Notes King Williams Domain BERLIN April 23Copyrighted by New York Associated Press 18S7J The North German Gazette semi officially states that tje arrest of M Schnaebles took place on German soil The authorities had received information I informa-tion that Schnaebles had been conducting conduct-ing himself in a suspicious manner at letz and other places on the frontier A German official who is believed to be an accomplice of M Schnaebles has been arrested at Metz The German government has not ordered nor coud it Approve of anything contrary to international The statement that Schnaebles was decoyed into German territory is untrue The Berliner lag blatt publishes a Metz dispatch in reference refer-ence to the letter written by Herr Gautzsch German commissary of police inviting Schnaebles to confer with him upon the erection erec-tion of a frontier pole Herr Gautzach writes I1H you have any communication to make with me which can neither be heard by German olficialsnor by German agents visit me in my private room This was sent in reply to a message from Schnaebles who had been tampering with Herr Gautzsch and other German officials The feeling in German official circles Is that too much has bsen made of the incident The documents relating to toe official inquiry will beforwarded to Paris providing that Mr Schnaebles arrest was legal Public interest in the matter is abating The bourse did not share in the agitation At Paris the market has been flat today international interna-tional securities declining from 14 o 12 per cent This however was not due to any alarm in connection with the Schnaebles affair The fact is realized that Germany is now in danger of war neither more nor less than at any time since January Prince Bismarck is determined de-termined to stamp out the French conspirators con-spirators in AlsaceLoraine French sympathizers must either remain inactive in-active or go to French territory Germanlzing measures are being carried car-ried out systematically throughout Al saceLorraine For instance four merchants mer-chants of the town of Diengce have been expo lied since Monday for adhering ad-hering to their French nationality i Each ot them received twentyfour hours notice to quit At the Chateau Salin a man was arrested I ar-rested for flaunting the French colors at a local ball At Sarreguimes Tribunal Tri-bunal a workman named Gapp was sentenced to three months imprisonment imprison-ment for shouting Vive La France A workman named Schmitt was sentenced to one months imprisonment for we ring r-ing tricolored ribbons and a workman named Siebold to ten weeks imprisonment imprison-ment for acting as correspondent of the French Patriotic League This treatment treat-ment of French adherents may have a great effectupon the French puolic and hasten a collision between the two nations na-tions but these measures are believed to belorced upon the German authorities authori-ties who have instructions to deal with all peaceful inhabitants as I German subjects |