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Berlin, , May 24. UnJoubtedly bt
ciuh matters In th near eaat are to be
' unaettlej for yeara, yet because of the
heteroveneoua mixture of quarrelaome
nationalities inhabiting- the . countries
adjoining the eastern parts of the Med-
' Uerranean and adjoining seas',' Ger
many baa finally decided to strengthen
ner naval squadron there, & fact not to
be . wondered at when it la considered
how great are Germany's commercial
Interests in these parts.
At present the German Mediterranean
squadron consists of one dreadnought
battle cruiser, the Goeben, with. 10 11
lnch guns and six smaller cruisers,
of which two are training cruisers,
- however. "
., At present these vessel have no
naval base at all, but according . to an
agreement reached with Turkey, while
' that country was still hoping for Get
,'many'a support. German capitalists will
now spend millions to develop the port
of Alexandretta,- where ' among oth;r
tbings large dry dooks are to be built,
ostensibly for the ure of the large
steamera of the North German Lloyd
and Other German shipping companies,
but In reality Intended for the' use of
Germany's naval vessels. And when
these works are finished, one more Q;r
man battle cruiser and two armored
cruisers will be sent to the Mediterra
nean. : A protest on the part . of any
other power, notably England, cannot
be properly made, as all the harbor Im
provements at Alezandretta are being
made, by private concerns. '
Top Czar Nicholas and Queen Meljna of Montenegro, escorting
wounded Montenegrin soldiers to a thanksgiving dinner in Scutari
following its fall.
Bottom Czar Nicholas of Montenegro holding the captured Turkish
flag In Scutari. . t
Fi
ORECAS
(By the Internittonal Kewi Service.)
London, May 34. Are we going to
have a summer as hot aa laat year's T
Professor Basset of University col
lege. Reading, who believes that the
weather can be foretold by the character
of ) the water In the Irish Sea, thinks
that we shall. ; .
"I draw my conclusions," he said,
"entirely from the nature of the water
we find in the Irish Sea the amount of
salt in it, and so on. and I find that
there are fairly striking variations In
that from year to year. The observa'
. tlons have only been continued for about
six years, but so far as they have gone
we can divide them into four types, and
It looks as If those different types cor
respond to four, different types of sum
mer." ' --;
"The changes we get In the Irish Sea,
I consider, give an Indication of the
changes going on in the open Atlantic
and the weather we get seems to be
yery largely dependent on what Js hap
pening out mere.
"This year the sort of water obtained
Is similar to what we had last year, and
it looks tone aa if wa are in for a
summer like last year."
The professor added that his theory
was supported by the appearances of
numbers of the. small floating animals
known as Portuguese men-o-war, as
was the ase last year, and by the fact
that Atlantic ice was again coming down
much further south than usual.
St PETERSBURG MECCA
FOR WORLD SCIENTISTS
' (By the Interot1ooal News Service.)
St. Petersburg, May 14. The Interna
tlonal Congress of Scientlflo association
Is meeting this year In St. Petersburg.
The leading American delegate is
George Ellery Hale, the famous astron
omer, who comes on behalf of the Na
tlonal Academy of Sciences at Washing
ton. The Russian government has an
nounced it has decided to suspend re
strlctlons against Jesuits and Jews who
may be chosen as delegates from for
sign countries on this occasion, but
Jewish scientists have refused to accept
any concessions, which are not extended
to other law-abiding members of their
race. , '.",:-''. - .;
, America's group arrived here toward
the end of the' month and will spend
soma time in rural-Russia studying the
cooperative system as applied to agri
culture. ' This system is spreading rap
idly in Russia. " . -
Emigration to the United States from
Finland, Russia, to the Baltic provinces
touched higher figures this month, In
the Oesel and Mustel regions of Kurl
and wholesale emigration has brought
e-etsls? 4-4H4aee marktrThr-rmmq-'
dlate cause 1r a tetter from aworkman
wne went -rrom vAnseaueu a year in
j " What Some Titles Cost American kGirIs
London, May 24. Countess de Castellans, formerly Anna Gould, ' bad to
pay $11,500,000 for Count Bonl's debts and extravagance, and then married"
the Prince de Sagan who owed $4,000,000, which she Is now helping to pay..
The Earl of Yarmouth had his debts of $2,000,000 paid by his wife, who
wss Miss Alice Cornelia Thaw, and had 11,600,000 settled upon him. A half
million of this was saved by the Thaw lawyers when the couple separated.
Count Szechenyl had $5,000,000 settled on him, of which, he was to have
the income for life when he married Gladys Vanderbilt Three million dol
lars that she had as her share of the Vanderbilt estate I gone, and four
years of the Income with It, in the count's effort to be- a flnanoler.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, LARGE STOCKHOLDER IN
KRUPR COMPANY, NOW FIGURING IN SCANDAL
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Berlin, May 24. The shadow of the
Krupp scandals Is still resting over
the inland empire, but nothing definite
will be known until the commission, con
slsting of government experts and rep
resentatives of the various parties in
the Reichstag sends in its report and
this will necessarily take some time.
There la reason to suppose that the alle
gations made by Dr. Liebknecht are
well founded, if for no other reason
than because a good many socialists
are good German patriots and should
the accusations prove untrue," the ao
cuser would have done immense harm
to hla own party. "
' it must De conceaea mat me proois
which have so 'far been ' published in
the "Vorwaerts" and other Socialist -pa
pers seem pretty reliable and conclusive,
and the government's first attempt to
have an investigating committee ap
pointed, consisting solely of government
experts, who would naturally be anxious
to apply as heavy a coat of whitewash
as possible, a scheme which was frus
trated by the Reichstag, did not deserve
to place the government In any too fa
vorable a light
No one doubts that the kaiser is
anxious to have the matter investigated
to the bottom and the run truth re
vealed, for Germany's safety rests on
the reliability of the firms which supply
the guns of its army and , guns and
armor for. Its navy., ....
Another way of investigating the af
fairs of the Krupp xirm privately is
open to the kaiser, and he is said to
be considering the advisability of mak
ing use of it.. . .
As one -of the- principal shareholders
in Krupps, the largest in fact, outside
the Krupp family, the kaiser may order a
stockholder's meeting and .request a
thorough investigation of the concern'a
business methods. Should the kaiser
decide to do this there Is no doubt that
enough stockholders would support him
to force the directors to comply witn
the request -
The kaiser did not himself acquire
bis stock in the Krupp company. The
original investment was made by his
errandfather. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
st that time merely king of Prussia, as
far back as 1587, upon advice or the
late Prince Bismarck, who, after con
quering Denmark and Austria, was plan
ning his great blow against France.
King William, as he was then, was
by no means' a rich .man, but he followed
the advice or jismarcK ana scrspea to
gether, "borrowing everywhere and mort
gaging his private estates, heavily, an
amount of no less than 14,000,0000
which were all Invested in Krupp shares.
The investment proved a most fortunate
one, for almost from the start the
stock earned good dividends and should
the kaiser decided to sell out hTs hold
ings, Inherited from his father, he would
get at least three t!mes4he amount
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The kaiser has always taken a mt
Interest In the company's buslncsu and
and who already has sent home to hla I has acted. -as its very best drummer
wife more than 1200 rubles in savings. (abroad. It waa thus due to his in
fluence alone that Turkey bought all
her army guns .from Krupps and he
manifested his special Interest in this
company In the plainest manner when
he visited' the exhibition at Dusseldorf,
where the Ehrhardts as well as the
Krupps had exhibits, for while he spent
more than half an hour examining the
Krupp , guna and armor plates, he did
not go near the! Ehrhardt exhibits at all.
The fact that, the kaiser is heavily
Interested In the arms manufacturing la
no secret to German steel magnates and
when some time ago Jules Huret of the
Paris "Figaro" complained to the famous
steel and iron king of Germany, Herr
Gustav Thyssen, of the kaiser's inciting
speeches the latter replied with a smile:
"I would not take those speeches too
seriously. None of us do at home, for
we all know that he is talking for divi
dends and wants to compel the Reich
stag to vote credit for Krupps.
London, May 24. The people and
government of Belgium., have Incurred
the ill will 6f the kaiser and his gov
eminent because they insist in ' going
ahead with fortifications which would
prove very much in the way, of, Gar
many in case of a Franco-German war,
In spite of the faot that the neutrality
of Belgium is guaranteed by Interna
tlonal' treaties. .
Belgium, like any other country," Is,
of course, perfectly free to bulla as
many fortresses as ahe wants to, but
the kaiser Is angry because the gun
of all those built or being built are
turned toward Germany while nothing
or next to nothing is being done to pro.
Vide against, a French attack and it has
not served to calm hlra that France has
openly admitted that in case of war
she counts on England sending-a divla
ion of troops Into Belgium to help thst
country ward oft a German attempt to
march across Belgian territory to the
French frontier. The cause of Belgium's
distrust is said to be that the French
government has secretly informed her
that the French spies have found out
that the late Field Marshal von Moltke's
plans of war against France, whloh arc
kept In the archives of the German
general stsff in ths ministry of war t'l
Berlin Is mainly based on an attack of
this kind.
Question Broached In Kelohstag.
The question was brought up in the
Reichstag recently when Herr von
Jagow, the German secretary for for
eign affalra,waa told by a Socialist mem
ber that great anxiety was being felt
by sll classes In Belgium because they
feared that Germany would not respect
the country's neutrality a moment
longer than it suited her plans to do
so, that In other words German troops
Would Invade Belgium the moment a
war broke out' between Germany and
France,
Secretary's Xeplies Are Evasive.
Herr von Jagow evasively replied
that Belgium's neutrality was guar
anteed by all the powers, but this reply
did not satisfy the Socialists, who are
generally anything but disposed to be
turned away by mere platitudes. And
In this question less than ever, be
cause the government permits Jingo and
Pan-German magaslnes to declare
openly time and again that Germany
does contemplate the -violation of these
international agreements, without even
Benylng thorn officially.
Another Socialist .asked If diplomacy
could find 'no way of bringing about a
reapproachment between: France and
Germany, but to this question the for
eign minister could find no other reply
than that Germany for more than 40
yeara had proved her love of peace.
In reply to another question he an
swered that the idea that an end might
be put to competitive armaments was
absolutely Uloplan.
WORD GRANDMOTHER .
CAUSES DISCUSSION
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(87 the International New Service.)
Paris, May 24. Mrs. A. E. Xabouche,
wealthy daughter of Mrs. Whitney Hoff
of Detroit caused a flutter, recently by
limiting the age of the women whom
she Invites to her social gathering to
about 40. Girls and young widows only
are welcome to her receptions, which
idea! is highly popular with her male
guests. On the contrary, an article on
Chicago grandmothers, by that erudite
academician, Emile Faguet, has caused
mirth here. Faguet says although the
word grandmother usually Is synony
mous with old woman, in Chicago wo
men are sometimes grandmothers at 32,
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ried Prince Ernest August, son of the Duke of Cumberland, yes
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LADY DUFFERIN WOULD
RENT NORTH HOUSE
(Br the International Newa Serrice.)
London, May 24. Even generous
Americans are falling under the spell
of the Engllah fashion of "make all
yon can'' and now the Marchioness of
Dufferin is offering for rent North
House, her fine place at Putney.
: Lady Dufferin is willing to accept a
fancy price for the use of this beauti
ful place lor the season and, In 'addi
tion, the splendid art treasures. This
suburban mansion Is rich In social tra
ditions. Lady Dufferin would only con
sider a weekly rental of 100 guineas,
which would make North House only a
rich man's prize.
Prince of Cumberland German and English
Berlin, May 24. Following are some Interesting facts about the House
of Cumberland, Into which Princess Victoria Louise was married today.
The Prince of Cumberland is both German and English.
He is a great-grandson of King George III of Great Britain, His grand
father was a brother of Queen Victoria of England, they both having been
children of George III. . . - .... .... , ;,
In the event of the failure of succession of present heirs to the throne
of England, it would probably be the present Duke of Cumberland, or in the
event of his death, the Prince of Cumberland, who would succeed to the
throne, because of their descent from King George.
The arms of the House of Cumberland are almost similar to those of the
royal family of Great Britain.
The Duke of Cumberland is a Prince of Great Britain, a general in the
British army and a colonel In the Austrian army. .
CROY WOULD HAVE MISS LEISHMAN AS HIS
DUCHESS ONLY; ALLIANCE NOT MORGANATIC
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By Marquis de Castellane. '
(Br the International b'ews Serrice.)
Paris, May 24. The approaching mar
riage of Miss Nancy Leiahman, daugh
ter of Ambassador John Q. Leishman,
makes a live question of the old subject
of morganatlo marriages. Let me set
tle it once for all.
A morganatic marriage is a real one
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both Jrom the standpoint of church and'
sisie. . une oirrerence between it and
the usual marriage is that the contract
ing party of inferior rank renounces for
sen ana orrspringall 'rights' to bonors,
tuies and emoluments Which might oth
efwise accrue.from the union.
'For instance, the late Kinar I.eonolil
contracted a morganatlo marriage with,
Garonne l,b ,toix, otnerwise the Baron
ess Vaughani Their two children .could
never claim heirship to the throne nor
to tne king's property. ; : . : 1
:All this talk about a morganatlo mar
riage between the second daughter Of
Ambassador, and. Mrs.' Leishman. arid
Duke 'Karl Croy, arises from a mlscon-
,The Duke of .Crpy never proposed -a
morganatic, marnage to Miss Leishman.
While her Tiance Is a ''sovereign duke"
ranking with r reigning ; dynasUes t he
never even intimated that the daughter
or tne Pittsburg millionaire was not hi.i
equal.' And if he had she i would not
nave aocepted him. There is no case on
record. Where an American girl has con
tracted a' morganatic marriage.
It is so' well known in Europe that
American girls would . inot-jsnter.: Into
unions ImpHying inferiority 'that rarely
has such a proposition been made. And
the few, exceptional cases met- with
prompt refusals. For Instance when
Miss Maud Fay of California was ab
proached by the family of a Bavarian
prince concerning a morganatlo mar
rlage she replied:
"No It -will be either a marriage of
perfect equality or none at all."
When Miss Anita SteWart of Phila
delphia waa married to a Bragazansa
Bourbon the question waa not even
raised. '
CRIPPLED CZAREVITCH
HONORED BY SOLDIERS
(B.T the International News 0rlre.)
St. Petersburg.- May 14. The esara.
vltch, Alexis, today made his first semi
public appearance since the Romanoff
ceieDrauon two months ago. A souve
nir of thesmatlovsky Guard regiment
was presented to the future caar tbla
afternoon. , i
Although he was able to stand durina
UtajaborUoaiaatofly. Jttut-Itau. .the e.
ganlo ailment of his' left.. hip bone, he
has .become enstMutlonally -weak. : Al
though not a complete invaliLJij'tlll
attends military parades at TaarMlom.
A Selo, sitting all the time In his carriage.
(Bjr the International Rvrvliir.)
Berlin, May 24. Many diplomats 0!
the various courts of Europe had
plannod the betrothal of the Princess
victoria Lulse, whose marriage to
Prince Ernest August occurred today,
to some princeling for reasons of state.
All ,of these diplomatic conaplrscles
have beon In vain, . 1 ; ,
Many were the royal sulfors' for tha
hand of the kaiser's only daughter, A"
few paid hasty visits-to Berlin It) th
hope that they might gain the affec
tlons of the princess whom many royal
mothers considered a prise match for
their sons, but the departure from Ber
lin was, In most cases, quite aa hasty.
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v w v hnv 4ii euuurv tor tne iisnd
of the princess wss the deposed King
Manuel of Portugal. Also it was said
an alliance with the king of Portugal at
that time would not have displeased the
kaiser at all. In fact, so interested in
the proposed match did the kaiser ap
pear that he arranged a meeting be
tween himself and the queen mother
cuss possibilities or tne marriage. ' "
Something happened, . however, before
this meeting could be brought about, and
all talk of Princess Victoria Luise be
coming betrothed to King Manuel waa
dropped. Probably the princess put her
foot down as she has since done in
other instances, and declined to be
wedded to the Portuguese king.
Prince Adolph Pressed 8ult '
Prince Adolph of Mecklenberg-Strellts
was another who niM mart in th. n-in.
cess. Apparently the princess regarded
him with some favor, for the two were
seen about together a great deal at
court functions in Berlin. One day the
prince left Berlin very hurriedly and
on the following day the princess left
for Celerlna, Switzerland, quite as hur
riedly, it being given out that the prin
cess suffered from a "cold" and had
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land to recover.
This explanation was accepted by but
a few. It was the general belief that .
the princess had had a genuine love
affair with the prince, but no reason
haa ever been assigned for tthe sudden
termination of it.
In 1J10 the Archduke Karl Frans, eld
est son of the late Archduke Otto of
Austria, was mentioned as a possible
future husband for the princess. The
Archduke Karl Franz, it. was pointed
out at the time, might some day be em
peror of Austria, in the event of the
failure of succession of Archduke Frans
Ferdinand, son of Emperor Frans Jo
seph: The kaiser paid a visit to Vienna
for a conference with the emperor of
Austria, with the object of discussing
the rumored match, it was said, but
nothing ever came of it Perhaps the
princess objected to the archduke, too.'
At this time the princess was IS years
old and the archduke was tt years old. -Prince
Arthur Kentloaea.
Then there followed In rapid order
rumors that the princess was to marry
Prince Leopold, son of Prince Henry of
Battenberg. and Prince Arthur of Con
naught It was asserted that King Ed
ward was so Interested in effecting a
marriage between the son of his brother,
and the Princess Victoria Luis . that
he arranged to have Prince Arthur
raised to a peerage of his own. The
Duke of Connaught, however, objected
to this. Klng Edward, it was said,
wanted to make Prince Arthur the duke
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on en La uhu ma priiji'eaa was osing ar
ranged, this despite the fact that what
had appeared to be a plan to marry the
Drlnces to : Prince ' Adolnh of Meolt ln- '
berg-Strellta had fallen through. ' -
King George is said to bave favored
a marriage between Princess Victoria ;
Lulse and the Prince of Wales, ao-
cordfng to a report which became cur
rent In official circles In London re
cently. No statement regarding this
could ever be obtained in Berlin.
In addition to alleged affairs of the
heart with royal suitors, and it is really
probable that only of these was an af
fair of the heart, the princess Is said to .,
have given her affections on one or two
occasions to men who were not of royal
blood. This may be true, but It Js like
ly that these were merely girlish love
affairs, for the ; princess is still very '
young, and these affairs took place some
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BRITISH PARCEL POST
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London, May 1 14. Rt Hon. Herbert
Samuel, the postmaster general, an
nounces that the British postal service
is. planning to establish a parcel post
to the Far East by way of the Trans-
Siberian railway. Arrangements for
this Innovation - which -has been; de
manded for 'some time, ' are understood
to bave "passed the preliminary stage, i
Postmaster General Samuel also hopes
to extend to India and the Far East tn
general the system of week-end cable
letters at greatly reduced ' rates. At '
present, however, ha is not prepared to
Introduce the measure in behalf of the
government . .
Mr. Samuel also refers to the proposed
chalif of "imperial "Wireless defenses.
stating- that sites for stations have been
picked out in England, Egypt, India
and South Africa.., Sites are also being
looked for in tne Straits Settlements
and East Africa. .-- ,
CHURCH BENEFACTOR
DIES AT AGE OF 3
(Br the International News Barrlce.!
London. May 24. Sir Taten Sykes,
Bart, has died In London after a long
illness. He was in his eighty-eighth
year, lieutenant Coloned Mark Sykes,
M. p. his only son, succeeds to the title
and the extensive Sledmere House es
tate in Yorkshire.
Politics had little Interest for Fir
Taten Sykes he visited the house" ot
commons only twice in his life but he
was' a leadng figure in the sporting
world '-and- many famous race horse.,
Including, Spearmint, tire winner of the
Derby, were bred at his stud farm at -Sledmere..
He was a great benefator i,t
fchurcnes and spent -more than 7,6o,0 J
In building rniii restoring thi-m.
Although tha little caaTavlt. h will
J years old. next Aneuxt h at: I 5
no regular tutor to everluuk fc
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