London, 21st March.
General von Caprivi has been appointed Chancellor of the German Empire. Dr. Boetticher is the President of the Prussian Council of Ministers.
(General von Caprivi was recently German Blinister of Marine, a post in which he was succeeded by Admiral Count Monts, at whose death General von der Goltz was appointed. General von Caprivi has been till now in command of the Hanoverian Army Corps. Herr von Boetticher was Minister of the Interior and ' Representative of the Chancellor' in the German government, and Minister of State for the Interior and Vice-President of the Council, in the government of Prussia.—Ep.]
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