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Show KAISER HAS DEIGNED TINTHI YEARS Enormous Crowds in Berlin Waiting to Take Part in the Jubilee Today. BIDKL.IN, June In. The iwcnty-llflh anniversary an-niversary of the accession of Emperor "William TI. was qulctlv observed today, as this marked the date also of tho death of tho emperor's father, -Frederick III. Tho emperor and empress attended a memorial me-morial service in thu morning at the. garrison gar-rison church at Pottsdam and later the emperor laid a wreath on his father's tomb. lie then received in the now palace the former members of tho First infantry gunrd, of which he was captain In 1SS0-1S81. 1SS0-1S81. All the members of the Imperial family took luncheon nt the new palace with the exception of tin crown prince. Their majesties and guests proceeded to the royal palace nt Berlin in the evening. The real jubilee will begin tomorrow morning with reveille in tho schlossyard. Great crowds have gathered In Berlin, and the congestion in the streets Is beyond description. The police In charge of traffic traf-fic find It Impossible to keep the crowds of people and vehicles moving. Untcr Den Linden, which has been brilliantly decorated, decorat-ed, was so crowded throughout Sunday that Ingress from the Brandeburg gate and from the .SohloHS had to bo prohibited. NEW YORK, June 15. A kommers in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession of lCmperor William of Germany Ger-many to the throne was given hero tonight. to-night. Among the speakers wns Count Johann Von Bernstorff, the German embassador, em-bassador, and Mayor Gaynor. Toasts were drunk to the German emperor and nation and to the United Slates and its noonle. In his address Count Von Bernstorff said: "This day Is being celebrated by Americans Amer-icans in the "United States who praise the emperor as the princo of peace. Although Al-though he kept peace, for twenty-five years It. is not possible for us Germans to dream the dream of eternal peace. The geographical situation of Germany for centuries was such that it became the bloody battlefield of all the nations. Todav we can celebrate the anniversary of 100 years of poace in Germany: that Is for 100 years no enemy has set foot on German soil. "Uke his prototype. Siegfried, the hero who mado his own sword and swung It himself, we. the German nation, will swing our sword only whon wo aro compelled com-pelled to do so, like Siegfried, when his weapon fell down In the embers. Then we will ask tho world to say, like Wag-nciv's Wag-nciv's Siegfried, 'So strikes Siegfried's sword." ,i Count Von BernstorfT said that all Germans were pleased that a telegram of congratulations had been sent by President Wilson to the emperor, rccog-nlzlng' rccog-nlzlng' him as the prince of peace. |
