Arrangement with the "Ostasiatiacher Lloyd." peror will not accept any personal gifts on the occasion of the forthcoming twenty-fifth anniversary of his accession, but that he desires that all moneys that have been intended for gifts be used for benevolent or patriotic purposes.
The Italian press points out that the preliminary peace negotiations, armed Which were conducted in Switzerland, were absolutely unsuccessful. The papers consequently demand energetic action in Lybia.
The German Government has demanded indemnity from the Porte for the pillaging of German street railway engineers in Ipek, Macedonia.
The derailing of the Siberian express by which Prince Henry of Prassia was travelling to the Far East, occurred eighty versts west of Tshita, where there is a curve in des-conding s steep hill. Prince Henry, his suite and the other passengers escaped unhurt, although nearly all the cars were thrown from the rails and part of the rails were damaged. Assistance trains arrived very soon. Prince' Henry himself took part in ordering the necessary steps to be taken, and expressed his thanks to the workmen who assisted. He proceeded to Vladivostok at eight o'clock this morning.
A few units of the Constantinople garrison have tried to mutiny. The attempt was, however, immediately suppressed.
Aug. 30.
Mr. Wheeler, the President of the California University, proposes to give the Nobel Peace Prize this year to the German Emperor.
Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, the German Chancellor, who is at present at Gastein, will to-morrow be the guest of Prince Regent Luitpold at a bunting party in Berchtesgarden.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.