Show BERLIN BITS GREAT BRITAINS HOSTILE ATTITUDE TUDE TOWARDS GEJRMAXY Biapcror Desires Closer and More I Amicable Relations With Russia I Some Very Significant Fact Socialist Meetings Hecently Held r BERLIN Feb Copyrighted 1S95 L toy the Associated PressThe conviction I convic-tion Is tat growing here that Great Britains hostile attitude toward Germany Ger-many must be considered a political factor of permanence and that the I 1 friendly entente which waa recently gijwn out of events between Germany Russia and France must be made a lasting feature of Germanys foreign 1 policy plcyT correspondent of the Associated ir Press i this city has been Informed by t cm official of the foreign office that the L emperor gives tangible expression of I his desire for closer and more amicable ami-cable relations with Russia and has I ntste to General von Werder formerly I for-merly German omTjassadoi1 at S1 Petersburg Pe-tersburg and now the guest of the czar a autograph letter to Nicholas 7TT in which Emperor William expresses I ex-presses his friendship for the czar and riMS to attend the coronation fet E at Moscow ThIS IS MOST SIGNIFICANT ts it is the first time dn history that a h German emperor or tong of Prussia has personally witnessed the coronation corona-tion if c ± ar The emperors determination to render ren-der the German navy mora formidable and to < push the colonial policy of the empire 18 shown In his telegram replying reply-ing t a dispatch of congratulation on the subject from the Hamburg Colonial ociet7 l In this telegram his majesty spoke a the necessity of adequately protecting our transoceanic interests L rotctn creating such protection speedily speed-ily The reactionary parties throughout through-out Germany are aiming to modify the constitutional election franchises and In Saxony the end will be first nctjcally sittained tcl atane pi If A bill is before the Saxon diet and iso I is-o the point of becoming a law I dip di-p vldos te electors Into classes according accord-ing to their taxpaying grades and each Gtean is entitled to the same number J j of delegates Thus 90 per cent of the poor electors are doubly outnumbered by 10 per cent of the wealthier classes At a large socialistic meeting just held at Leipsic fifteen socialist delegate dele-gate to the diet resolved to resign and leave legislation entirely in the hands of the capitalist delegates Fifteen SOCIALIST MEETINGS recently have protested against the slow progress of the city reform plan pending prgres er and D Stoecker and his following have organized at Frank fortOnMain a new socialist reform party Two hundred delegates from places throughout Germany attended Resolutions In favor of economic reforms re-forms for the working classes and against the accumulation of capital by monopolies were adopted The party aopted boasts of a voting strength of one million lion mostly Conservatives and National Nation-al Liberals I ha been favorably remarked In Catholic circles recently that the em Ctolo number of ueror has lately made a numbr large gifts for the building or restoration larg tion of Catholic churches in Germany He gave twenty thousand marks to two this Impoverished parishes of Posen week wek number of convictions for lese majeste has been especially large du ing the past week A butcher of Kiel was sentenced to a years Imprisonment wa Imprison-ment sntnced ad a at Potsdam for speaking ment a ing disrespectful of her empress w SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS confinement in prison confnent received In Emperor William has Ieceived Emperr Wiia audience Colonel W L Ludlow the military attache at London United States mitr atahe don and has questioned him minutely conclusions after the exam as to his coclusIons ination a which Colonel Ludlow has just made of the Baltic and North Sea ca Balc his examination of nal in addition eammaton the route of the proposed Nicaragua canal and his Inspection of the Suez < and Corinth canals Colonel Ludlow reports that the Baltic and North Sea canal is the finest piece of work ever fnishe cana The receipts are still 40 percent per-cent below expenses but they are growing grow-ing steadily HONOR TO BUNION The flags were lowered here on Monday Mon-day last ag honor of the late ambassador ambassa-dor of the United States to Germany General TheoHore Pomyon whose fu eral took place a that day in Newark N J The American bal on Tuesday was a great success I was held on that day in honor of Washingtons birthday a the GerjnanAmericans of Berlin gave a banquet in honor of the same on the previous Saturday There was a large attendance Bishop Turner of the American Methodist church in Africa ha spent a week here on his way to Liberia Prince Bismarck In addressing some visitors a few days ago spoke of colonial colo-nial matters and declared that the trader must go ahead and that the state should follow He expressed himself however as being opposed tan t-an extension of the Prussian bureaucratic bureau-cratic system in Africa and declared himself against the unconditional abolition abol-ition of slavery saying he thought it should be the natural outgrowth of circumstances cir-cumstances The prince also said that he did not believe in the equality of races Providence Provi-dence he added had given the negro another destiny than that given to the whites He opposed ill treatment of the negroes who said he had something some-thing of the horse or of the dog but even with them the system of blows is antiquated antquated The Reichsanzeiger tonight publishes S decree empowering the imperial chancellor to take the necessary chancUor tae measures meas-ures t regulate jurisdiction over the natives of GermanAfrica |