Show LETTER MOM THE attention again turned to the army bill I 1 VON CAPRIVI SHOWS GREAT TACT I 1 in i dealing with the various parties esThe the era em derors s threat to crush his opponents much discussed I 1 BERLIN jan 7 when lien the holiday sea I 1 in came to an end the public attention s was as again turned to the arm army bill to no measure of recent years a s so 0 closely the 1 home ome lifo life of the german people for should the reichstag reject it and chancel I 1 lor von yon caprini carry out the threat to insist upon a lull full three years service in the army it would mean much to the young men who n ho are the main and in many cases the sole support of sisters and widowed mothers the reichstag will resume its sittings haeway the committee of the tile house to inch which wa s referred the army bill will meet oil n wednesday chanc chancellor ilor von yon caprisi has as requested re I 1 the president ent ot of the committee to jup expedite edite the deliberations in order not to retard the tha final decision of 0 the reichstag the chancellor is having noth ing moe more to tell the tile committee ought to re report port promptly p am aptly but the members depre benting anti g the tile cle clerical fical party remain in a state 0 of indecision the chanc chancellor ellot to offer offe a an inducement that will suffice as an excuse of their surrender when they are called upon to face their constituents isono none of those within the tile inner ioli political circles believe the chancellor has his committed himself the utmost length to which will e h be lie has cone gone is believed to be that he lie has lis promised pro to leave the government su supporters will arters to take an ail independent course alien the center party gets a remote chance of dividing dividen g the reichstag on the jesuit q question ue stion in private dealings with I 1 the leaders of the several parties the chan bellor is displaying mu much h tact and a course of action sue such h as will vill elicit t tread abe ad mi ration even adversaries nothing now is heard of the chancellors retire ment from office ollice the position with the emperor is stronger than ever and his hia de of personal resources finesse and audacity u d a city staggers his opponents who are b becoming ae e 0 n weak k under apprehension that the nf bit bill wl will I 1 1 be passed without a ingle single concession of importance being nade made by the government the opposition papers are trying to raise a i popular storm over the emperors recent use of the phrase awill I 1 will crush ersch kettern met tern r 1 11 those who oppose me the age press I 1 ress assumes that the words meant th that at the emperor intends to over ri ride e the vote of the reichstag should it be hostile to the army bill by a report ye ort to an ail application of the article of the german constitution by which e every cry able bodied man nian may be compelled to serve in the army and another article which enables the emperor to fax ft the strength odthe of the arm army the he abundant partisan fury ex P nad over the much discussed phrase seems wasted and since an ail official paper suggests that if the language was used at all it was directed at the m person ages who are unfriendly to t the he bill itt it is probable alie emperoti emperor used the threats generally if he used u so them at all not dei signing g to attack the privileges of the re reichstag gi ch rag g I 1 or dr any particular person the war ar c effice is taking g action anti cipa elpa tory to the tile passage of the bill in ten tell ce bentres centres of the new ne v revision councils are b eang formed with a MOW view to the extension recruiting The emperor beyond doubt means mean 5 that the bill shall become a law in the tile course of a year the tile proprietors of leading stores in ber till concur in the statements that the holl clay da season luit just passed showed an enor decrease in the business usually done at that period of the year the annual re ports issued by the various chambers of commerce in germany state the depres sion prevails everywhere in the empire the strike of the baar miners is is expected 1 to collapse next week owing t to 0 lack both of popular and an I 1 trade support thousands of f strikers rs and families are in a starving condition and this tend sto to weaken the backbone of the strike f |