master of Berlin, who intended to! retire on October 1, and who is to be succeeded by Dr. Wermuth, late Secretary of the Treasury, has died. after having been twenty years in office, at the age of seventy years. Bept. 15.
The German Emperor has gone to Wilhelmshaven to take part in the naval manceuvres. He will proceed with the Empress and Princess Victoria Louise to Rominten on the conclusion of the manceuvres.
The German Emperor was much touched by the voluntary death of General Nogi and his wife, and has asked Prince Henry of Pru: to express to the Emperor of Japan his sympathy in the loss which he has suffered.
Prince Regent Luitpold of Have has ordered the erection of a marble! statue of Richard Wagner in the Walhalla at Regensburg on May 92, 1913, the hundredth anniversary] of the birth of the composer.
The reform of the penal Code, which is being prepared by the German Government, provides an increase in the punishment for duelling to confinement up to five years, and if the duel was wantonly provoked, to imprisonment, and if one party is killed confinement or imprisonment up to ten years.
The transfer from Brest to Toulon of the Third French squadron is! being made use of by Austro-Hun-arian and the Italian Press who wish to revive the Triple Alliance policy. The papers demand above thet the Triple Alliance be made!
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