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Show I German Foreign Office Is Worried I I BY MALCOLM CLARK. ' llij Special Cable to The Tribune- BERLIN, March 10. To say that the German foreign office Is very deeply exercised ex-ercised over the condition of affairs in the Near East Is stating a simple fact. That only the restraining Influence of the great powers prevents an actual slate of war between Bulgaria and Turkey Tur-key Is certain and that the aggressive attitude of Bulgaria la due to an understanding under-standing with the other Balkan slates and perhaps with Greece Is little doubted. doubt-ed. Chancellor Bcthmann-Hollwcg and Foreign Minister von Schoen have been In consultation with Count Aercnthal, tho Austrian foreign minister, and with Mr. Iswolskj', who directs Russia's foreign for-eign affairs, and I am Informed has Informed In-formed them, as well as the Balkan sovereigns, that for the present at least war must be averted. Thcro Is a belief current In diplomatic circles here that Russia Is really at the back of what inav be called the Balkan federation, and really Is fomenting the trouble. In conversation con-versation with a- diplomat recently, ho said to meu "The Balkan states may force a conflict with Turkey and It Is conceivable that aelln together ihcy might be able to defeat the Ottomans. If they did, they might' find it a barren victory. The trcaM.cs of San Stcfano and Shltnencscki arc examples which show how short-lived such triumphs prove when the preponderating Interests of neutral great powers prevent" the victor from reaping the fruits of a successful campaign." The cinematograph was employed here recently during a lecture at the Empress Erlcdricli School for the Higher Education Educa-tion of Physicians to show cultures of sleeping sickness germs In human blood. The pictures were shown by Dr. Belcher Belch-er of Berlin, who made a specialty of ! sleeping sickness for a number of years and passed many months in Africa, whore the pictures were taken. The method employed Is his Invention. Among a largo number of German and French physicians who attended the lecture lec-ture were JDr. Doyen and Professor Car-valho Car-valho of Paris. Opening of Kiel Canal. There is authority for stating that while Prince Henry of Prussia has been visiting In England he has conveyed to King Edward and Queen Alexandra, on behalf of the emperor, an Invitation lo no present at the ceremonies that are to take place at the opening of the widened wid-ened Kid canal, which is expected to take place towards the end of next vcar. it Is rather Improbable that their Brlt-anle Brlt-anle majesties will find themselves able to accept this invitation, and the Prince and Princess of Wales will In that case be deputed to lake their places. Since the time of Frederick the Great it lias been the custom for every Hohcn-jjollern Hohcn-jjollern prince to learn a trade. All the kaisers sons have followed this trndltlon and now Prince Joachim, tho youngest, Hfrl : Is bolng taught farriery at Flon. ' TJ ' Oldest Woman in tho World. HP Tho eldest woman In the world cole- HH) '1 brated the 12nth anniversary of hor birth Brio I recently at Poscn. She Is Frau Dut- BL"1' klcwlcz, and although she is bent and feeble, almost blind and deaf, sho Is not Hn? bedridden. Frau Dulklewlcz remembers !8' the Napoleonic wars, and the fall of tho fflpvi little corporal. She was married over MH'WI ninety years ago, and has been a widow Hl'4l '1 for more thnn half a century. Her des- mSp- ' cendants number 200, and she has two H:' groat-great-grcat-grcat-gmndchlldrcn. H ; At a recent trial of broadsides fired HM by Germany's new Dreadnought Nassau, Bj"' 1 the reverberation was so strong that it ra' ' H produced landslides on the Danlsh-Mcck- 93 i ,- lenburg coasts twenty-five miles dis- jm Floating Church on Eivcr Spree. mJs In a tugboat plying on tho River Spreo Rial -'1 and the 'adjacent canals, the Berlin 8.'$i ;H Church mission maintains a floating Bjj J j -il church, which Is regunrly used for serv- B$ 'M lcc. It has just been the s,cchc of a wed- WTll 'H ding,, at which the groom was a canal K9v '1 boatman and the bride a daughter of a EH -jy fellow.-worker. The former wore a morn- Itirii! Ing coat and top hat, while' tho brida Kvif't was in white, with a flowing veil. Aft- Ejxi cr an afternoon at a popular beer res- Ei j'i r taurant, the couple returned to the ni 4f groom's barge, and most of their mar- HhI'TH rlcd life will be spent afloat. mi f-' H |