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Show WOULD SEE THE I . PASSION PLAY Tide of Travel Has Already Set in Toward Oher- il Ammergau. Il iiH MANY AMERICANS WILL jiH WITNESS PRODUCTION jtH It Is Expected That 25,000 Americans Will See Famous Play This Year. il BY MALCOM CLARK. iH Special Cable to Tho Tribune. BERLIN, May 7. The tldo of travel al- H ready has set In towards Obor-Ammer- gau. and throughout the summer all roads ll In Germany will lead to the place whero i every ten years tho Passion play is pro- ' H duced. Tho first public performance will be held on May 18, and many Americans ll now In Europe will bo at Ober-Ammorgau ll on that dato. It Is estimated that be- IH fore the last performance September 25. 'H more than 2G.000 American visitors will 'M havo seen the famous plnv. An effort 'H was made to havo former President fM Roosevelt so change his plans that he IH could go to Obcr-Ammergau. Ho ex- H pressed much regret that It would be 5m- H possible for him to do so, but it was ab- H solutoly necessary that ho should, adhere H to his original programme. '''H Waiting for Teddy. jH Everything Is in readiness to meet Mr, ll Roosevelt when ho arrives In Berlin next IH week. The Berllners are determined that their reception shall oxcell anything tho former president of tho United States has ll seen In Europe and to set a mark which H cannot be equallod In London. No visit IH of royalty has como anywhere near cr- IH atlrig the Interest In the Gorman capital, IH which Is felt In the coming of Mr. Roose- volt. At least, not In. the memory of H the present generation. There aro a few discordant notes, chiefly among the ultra- iH conservative aristocrats, who aro rather JH stunned at the showing of royal lionors H on a plain American mister, but the at- H tltudo of the kaiser silences whatever iH open criticism there might be from thl3 lH Scandal in Bremen. H A Bremen message to the Berliner IH Tagoblatt states that an Inquiry has boon opened there In connection with the In- ll frlngemont by a considerable number of IH persons m socloty of paragraph 175 of the ll German penal code. Up to the prcsoirt H six arrosts havo been mado. Including a H doctor anS many officials. Two of the H Incriminated persons have taken to H flight. A largo number of others are 'H deeply compromised hy correspondence iH confiscated by the authorities. Among them are many foreigners, some of whom ,H were connected with Princo .Eulenburg H circles. It Is stated that a technical of 11 - H clal lent his residence for the meetings H of the persons in question, and that the B victims were enticed there. Sevontv H young men and boys have so far boon H oxamlned. and thoy affirm that they were. H decoyed Into the residence In question and aftorward overcome by means of H wine nnd cigarettes drugged with opium. 1 Ono of them is tho son of a highly-placed H police officer, by means of whom the H matter was brought to licrht. Ho has ll since received letters threatening him IH with death. iH Photograph by X-Ray. It Is Toportod from Erlanger that snap- ll shot -photographs can now be taken by means of X-rays. Doctors will, therefore. 'H no longer find It necessary to wait sev- 'M era) seconds before the picture Is com- 'H plote. In tho small fraction of a second jH (one-thousandth), which is all that 1? JH now required, thero can bo no movement iH of tho patient that will affoct the picture. Tho results obtained with the new ! method are very good, details such as the il heart and ribs In radiographs of the- hu- llH man body being very clearly seen. H To Unite Two Seas, H A waterway through tho heart of Eu- ! rope. Joining the North sea to tlie Medl- 1 torranean and passing through Holland ' Germany, , Switzerland and Franco, will 1 ho an accomplished fact within tlie next i few years. Navigation Is to bo opened IH on tho Rhone between Geneva and Mar- '1 scilles, and It has been decided to con- H struct a ban-ago and a parallel canal to the Rhone at fioniitni hnur'u in.,-- lH noy by train from Geneva. Tho work will be completed in 1013. The "river route" from Geneva lo Basle Is to bo extended via Uie Jakos of Neuchatel. Morat and Blenno and the river Aar H which flows Into tho Rhine. The North sea Is already connected with Baslo bv tho Rhino highway. In the near future H a motor boat or a steam yacht will b? 1 able to sloam through the heart of Eu- IH Waited Forty-Six Years. After waiting forty-six years for her lover. Frauloin Singen, aged 64. was united at Altdorf to her fiance. Herr ll Mattaw. who Is of Uio same ago. Tho IH coupio left for the Argentine on their 'H honoymoon trip. They know each other as school children, and becamo engaged at the age of IS, when Horr Mattaw left Switzerland for South America to seek M hlti fortune. Tho coupio corresponded regularly and exchanged over L'000 lot- IH ters and scores of photographs. |