Show Malcolm Clarke in Berlin Ill I MA M U CIt lun it ICE Republican Special Service Copyright 1007 01 Berlin July 29 Tiie ThC The inevitability Ine of oC a a. war between the lie United States Stales and mill Japan Ja In- p pan lI continues s to occupy the minds here lucre Not ot only do 10 the thC papers emphasize emphia- emphia size that lint although the Japanese have succeeded in quieting lull ling the tho passions In America th they y have o only done clone so o because he- he cau cause o they are not yet et rally rendy to open hostilities but hut the tho ho same nm opinion is heard f everywhere re Admiral ioto shod shed tears over o the lead dead sailors from th the Georgia ant und and sent flowers flower for their coffins says lays u a prominent Berlin paper hut but In reality he ho is blessing the hue gods who mado made the accident take nIce at such an opportune opportune opportune tune moment which gave him such an on excellent opportunity to to make a 0 good Impression upon the American n public His press agent could not have done better work for or him than did fate America should learn from the vents events which preceded ed the HIP Jap Russo anese war isar and which In many re respects resembled present ones While hUe Japanese officials in ever every way flattered r the czar ond Russia while the Russian minister of war General Kuropatkin wu was received with enthusiasm enthus at Tokio Japanese spies were everywhere where in all the ea eastern tern fortresses fort fort- at Port Arthur mt t Vla Vladivostok o l tole at Kronstadt and alt all along the Trans Trans- Siberian railroad and when thy they were werl rea ready y the Japanese opened hostilities s without any declaration of warThe war The They are repeating repeating- the same samo tactics now nois they lucy are flattering th the tho American nation su to tJ lIin hf r notion on In triO tile world l tuu whitt tit III lull their suspicions dons clon to sleep Japa Japanese mese re soldiers soldier disguised this dis guised as I coolies md nd colonists are ue pouring into Hawaii ind nd Japanese spies are arc photographing and drawing sketches sketch sketch- he h- h e es Cs of or Amerl American an fortresses e as l did the gp spy caught nt lIt Fort Tort ins It Is to h be he hoped that the American government will ivill realize and admit to itself the seriousness of oC th the situation in time to make preparations against a sudden Japanese I attack for or the little little- brown men will swoop down clown upon Manila Ma Ma- nila and Hawaii without declaring war just a as they did at Port Arthur Germany can CUll only regret a war wai bEtween between between be be- tween the two countries as it will weaken both hoth and strengthen Ian Eng England C Tho Tue murder of C Baron Otto von on flux flux- hoe den by his son on Edward Edard throws a strange light on the lie psychology D' D ff Vf Russian society ocl t Baron was a Baltic province pro ince moe millionaire who had hd lived for Cor years in th the tho fashionable a street in St S1 Petersburg Ho lie was an elderly mn man n of oe irreproachable character charac charac- ter ten and had hind al niT his life liCe been engaged enterprises Ho lie 1 in philanthropic was patron ant and director of ot nearly all the St Rt Peter Petersburg Petersburg- houses l of oC labor and t O was a a. great groat favorite of oC the who ho more than once sent him to Western West West- stern st- st em ern Europe to mo Investigate n such Institutions lions 0 The rue skeleton In th the don l den n cupboard cupboard cup cup- board was the barons baron's second son sou l Ed Ed- cJ- cJ ward who bo suffered from nerves nei and had harl been heen treated tell for n OIlS nervous dl diseases ca e In nl sanatorium Edward a a. Riga C. C flux Rux- en lute like o his father r was a philanthropist philanthropist philan philan- and when ihen in possession of his faculties was a onto fu with every very one lint But he carried his lila political and social I convIctions so far tar that he lie hail had i than once threatened to 10 kill people who differed from Crom him on minor questions More or than once o ho hp threatened his father Cather whom h ho he considered too old oll to lo lobo bo lit of use In iii lh the Iho world and In un unsound on Oh politics The baron aron I treated the tho throat threat lt n as a Jol Joke and as the sons son's on h health Improved forgot It al altogether ni- ni together I Two days llaH ago agoo the time pair returned Il to S St. St Petersburg Petersburg- fro from noun their country llOu house The Tue son ton ordered luncheon and sat t to table while the tho father took look a n hath bath Half wa way through hI his iuIs meal Edwar rose lose entered his fathers father room und and shot allot through the time bod hOlh The Tho baron haron died almost almot ImmedIate Immediately When the tilt son semi was vas taken taleen to the nolice po no- lI lice e station h he lie expressed JO joy at having ha killed Billed his Ills father In ever every other re respect respect respect re- re he ho appeared perfectly sane MJ My I father was isas his explanation had bod arrived ar ar- ar- ar rh rived at a stage In hl his lift life when hen he could be of oC no more morel u l use e to nn any one I felt rell impelled to kill him The doctors a assort assert rt that you young Bux flux hoe ioe Is IK sane anc They The explain his ac act b y Baying that tIle the tension II L of oC RUSH Russian Inn me toe tt pa past three years has hs produced a new t type po pf of oC criminal who Vho whose violent acts arise from undue to political differences c 0 S a e Karpo the a assassin a sin of M M. Bogo- Bogo lepolT the Iho Russian minister r of or ion tIon has haJ escaped ald from Siberia and is supposed ed to b be In Austria con o of convoy twenty soldiers Kur- Kur Srun W was waR IR dispatched from froni prison PiSOn on to 10 0 S the convict s settlement of or In the tho course o of the three weeks weeks' march one on- of at the soldiers sickened sickened sick sick- ened ned and diNt died He lie was buried In n the the- fore forest t. t As J Karpo AS ho had become a skilled killed I c car during during- iii hI hit long Im- Im nt lit tho commander coSm coS- coS of th the con con- to 0 removed remO hH hit manacles nn 1 asked him Im m to carve a cross for or th the grave gran Car Kar- lonn tlona agreed bUt W worked with wh int- int riot flOt ot 80 50 that th the work rk wa was finished wh when n night fello fell Cell At midnight l KarpO P decIded to take to o flight On pret pretext of or the cross to lo lIl the lie commander of th the tho conoy eon con onO on O oy vol ho lie gained access to the commanders commander's command command- 0 ers er's rs r's tent When the they were wore alone lie iho terrorist drew a a. concealed pistol pitOl and anil threatened to blow out the commanders commander's command command- ers er's brains If he hue e did I not at once gl j orders for the soldiers to march Th The commander ordered the twenty men to that he ho resume rectum their march saying would himself bring the time convict along The Tho moment the Uw soldiers soldiers- had disappeared pear 1 Into Inlo the tho darkness Karpovitch 0 made maile for the forest when when- ho hI was sought In i vain a j |