BERLIN SCANDAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 28, 28 October 1907, Page 5

BERLIN SCANDAL.

'.THE CAMARILLA. ~,,,,,-,, HIGH OFFICERS AND ROYALTIES ' IMPLICATED. PLAINTIFF WOULD CALL THE JCAISER, Bl" TEI.EGII.VrH—niESS ASSOCIATION— OOPYIUGIIf. . Berlin, Olctober 20. In tlio action for criminal libel brought by Count Ivuuo von MoHkc, formerly Military Governor of Berlin,-against Hcrv Ma'xiniiliau Harden, editor of the " Zukunr't," which published articles alleging immorality.and,.iutriguo, nauseating evidence was given 'leBcribing orgies in Count Lynar's palace it Potsdam. -Tho evidence implicates high qIH-' cors and noblemen, and two of the Kaiser's cousins. Count Mbltke-denies that-ho was-awar'o of his friends' proclivities, and is anxious'to call tile Kaiser to contradict the allegation that camarillas had been formed forapolitical purposes. \ prince eulgnburg; '" ; alleged illness and will not be •; IDENTIFIED:' , ' ,^" I, "' " r ' : A SPECIAL REPORT FOB THE KAISER.(Reo. Oct. 27, 4.CG p.m.),...,. .. , .: •; ; -■:■ Berlin, October 26 The Court scandal, .continues.-,to. exci'c Europo. ~: . " ... ] Princo Eule'nburg declines to attend Court alleging illness. The Judge sent i ..a...soldiu to tho privatb residence of tho Prince'to identify him as a participant in the'orgies at. Count Lynar'o palaca, but Prince Eulonburg refused to seo him. < Count Kuno vor. Moltkc fhtly. denies Vint he is guilty of immorality. Ho admits undue .sentimentality in his relations with P'-in-e Eulenbnrg. .He., declares-.that: no-,- resig iod tho military, commandantship of Berlin : gjicly beeahsojm v;as the victim of slanderous accusatioii's! Major Hulson, an official, reluctantly deposed that.Count Moltlce's ,resignation was not sololy duo to military considerations. The Kaiser receives a special . roport of tho proceedings of Hih''trial. I ''!''' J -V

A STORY OF IMTriicUE. '"THE ROUND TABLE." ;, If one pieces together all tho detaiis'tiiat have from timo to (imo loakcd out from Bor;lin, the story of the camarilla is very largely tho history of Germany for years past. , '! Ojie of tho first liglits oh Priiico (then Couat) ■Phillip Eulcnlntn; is afforded by tho strikiii" character skbtcli of him.atj:ributsdr l iKiF,rjncs Bismarck, tho Iron Chancellor, who snoko of Bulenbnrg as a "mystic" or "occufist" ratiior than-a politician, but yet clover, very well read, very amiable." Saiil Bißmnrcly —i"As a politician ho , cannot .00 'takpiv: eerio'usbv ■As a diplomatist ' ;lio"'%caii'not'bo used in important posts, v.i ,;,-'j.Ho, doesn't want to bo anything,' iibitbor Secfo,tary of State nor Chancellor. Ho thinks with Voltairo, "Tho friondship of a j;rcat inan is a t;ift of the gods.?. 1 .: . Tliatvis all bo iftinfai ■Ho is an enthusiast, a spiritualist, and α-fino talker in tho stylo of old Kadowitz. For a man of tho...Kaiscr's. dramatic toililJoiiimOTt that kind of'irian"is"vbry'dangerous! Wb'on iio is in his presenco Eulonburg takos up a kind of worshipping attitude,, probably sincere,., but that kind of adoration was nover good for anybody. As soon as ho sees the Kaisoi\, ho. fastens his gaze on him as if . hypnotised],": paor- ■ cstdticus, ' Faust' in tho last ;v 'ndt-; ■ butj horo ho. is no father, but rathor son.' The,, 1r0n , .,- Chancellor further, remarks <lha't' Eulonburg was "almost 'ploughed' in hi? examination for the diplomatic scrvico," and the most important post ho over ontrusted to Prince jEulonburg was tha l s. :Sj Prussian Minister to Bavaria. '■' Exit Gapri'Ji. .SKO"'? r 'S But it was'after the' fall of Bismarck .that. Princb: Eulonburt;' reached his full power' aivl then it ivas that the "camarilla' spun its web with tho Kaiser, and tho-'.":ii" seen rulo of tho King-maker,,who would jidc bo King, asserted itself. According to the testimony; pf ,'aovoral Berlin corriijpijijc]eiit3]'-, one of tho, first victims of this was General Count Caprivi, Priiico Sismarsk's Kiccossor in tlie Chaucellorshi , ). Count Caprivi.was a loyal soldier, bifd'of "tin" noblest and mo3t chivalrous of men. But for this very reason ho could not defend Jijin-, solf against the tenebrous intrigues *p'f "fitlu)' Court. His 'ivorst enemies wero tho Eulon-' burg family, and itwas during a .vifjt. pf ; tjui. Kaiser to Liebonburg Castle, tho ; EulenburS family seat near Berlin, that his downfall was finally brought about. But Btralige ?irt say, Priuco Eiilenburg feared Caprivi, because bo wa3 afraid tho ilXaiser would insist on his taking tho.oflicoiof;Sccr«--tary, ! Of,'Statq for- Foreign Affairs.. -r-H.b feared that "his "friendly' influence over the Kaiser would suffer by tho daily official relations,; that his reports on the political situation" would bo less interesting than big intiinato andi. frioiidly ' uitercourse'l' in the. coursv>, l '.af which' : /.b6- uiidersto'tld 'so : :well..haw. tp.tini-: parttlid direction Kb desired to the Kairsery mind. , . \\ ■■■ ■^■•■J. _,-;

A Pyrrhio Victory. ' Wo aro told that when Prince Hphenlolio' became Chancellor,' ho:".bbd to-put lip'with' , rrincc. Eulonburg in tlio Vienna Embassy. Soon tho Eulenburg caniariila. and- Baron Marschall von Bioberstchf (Seprotary c or Foreign Aflairs), came to grip:- / So poweriul was tho network of Court intrigue wound round him, that Von Bieberstoin found, tho only way ho could awcop it"away'was;l)J.wlj(jt; ho described as, a FJuolit iiv der Offdntlichkeit; ' flight into publicity.' Ho had a few obg'oiiro press scribes —t!io journalistie tools of hij secret: cnoriiiec-—arrested and put on trial for that';tho mail ! win in-jpircd tjiom,..anil- to whom theyiwp.ht.daiiy.for their instructions,■' was Herr Tauscli, tho head of ~.a. .'poiiticfil scctiqu. ; of. thh ..■.■•Uerlm 'pnlico.'" 'Prince Eulonburij; had to admit n Court that ho.hu'd'.i'(!lations with Taii.sch. .'dcelafßtljV-limVevoVJ thdt' his 'rislaiipns n weri' . i'p,ur.oly Eocial;". though;howit"L'amD''<:h'at-tji'p : . Aml)3Ssiiddivto;;V ienmi'; and, a police' coihniis-' sii'r.7 haS "social relations" lib did not'cx : plain. This ■ "oauso colebro" was a Pyrrhic victory .for I3ai\m Marscliall von Bieborstein, and' lh?' position as Secretary' of I ..Sta.to. bo j . -came .iniposcible, •and : ho , tvont.'tp Constantinople as Ambassador,'a post, ho; still .'liolda. The. old Prince voii Holisnlolio'was beginningto feel the burden of yoars, and the question oamo up who should, be appointed to the Foreign Office. Tho.candidate.ofVl'Hnco.'Eu--. was llorr Bernard von l)ulow. ; , ...Jio and Prince Eiilenburp; woro ■at , t-hal' i timo in-' tunato friontlu; they used; tho familar^ r 'thoii" in their daijy.intercourse.. It was !liero.that : Count' iCiii'.b Von .Mnltl'ifc first camo,:pn \\t\\s, :ocono. . He'wau then a colonel ahii!>jllilitnj:y ( i Attacho of the Vionna Embassy uii'dbr Prince Eulenburg. He could - exorcise ihfluonco'f'uV. tho Kaiser through his.bousin General•'■Holl-i , mutli voii Jtoltke, who sincco tho death of tho old field-marshal had the ear of , His, Majesty. 1 Gcner.-il von' I-lulscn, chiof of tls;' Military .Cabinet, also brought his iiiflupiipo ,(jq;bear. ,■;:•' ■'■ ' '' I"' ! ' A Well-Spun Net. But Horr von Buloiv did not want tho thorny post;pf Secretary. o( State for Foreign, Affairs. . FiiaivVou Bulow. travelled through l to Vienna and begged Prince Eulenburg to allow her husband to remain Ambassador in Rome. She askod tho Prince why ho did not take tho po3t himself, and got the onav/or, " I would rather bo King-pinker,, than King." Herr voif Bulov.had to aceppt the Wilhelmstiasso, ami his-Warwick was raised from the rank of Count zu Eulenburg-.to that, of Prince, and made a life 'member of the'

Prussian Houso of Lords. There he spun out his aiols. still., further..,. .When, ho had ■ljbnn AVinib'tw. ijl'.JllUnicli neiiadibcon'bn very friendly terms with M. Lecointe, an Attach? of the French Legation. Thanks to his influence in Paris lie got M. Lecomte appointed First., Secretary ,pf the' French Embassy in r ßcrlin,,and thus created for'himself means ■'of''lino-wing what was going on in the Quai ,"d.'ojsayV,'ii]itr,:the:exact state of relations betweou Franco and Germany. In the Foreign Office lip had two trusted lieutenants, Herr vbiiH'olstoin and Horr von KidorlonWniHjlitor, so that ho felt sure of his m(hionco, there: He thon-got his former Hili.;tary,iAttache,. Count- Kuno ivon Moltke, appointed Military.Governor. pf,.Bcrlin, a post that "brought him" into daily contact with tho ■liaison ■"■.'.; .-.' . '.n<-'. -'-■■• '-■ ■ : • The JournaSist Arrives. . Tho .remainder,pf the- story- is that Eulenburg'grew'jealous of the ■ growing power of tho Chancellor -Billow. -Tho .'camarilla, took up tho eminent statesman. Count Posadowsky, Secretary'of, State for the interior and ViceChancellor, to uso-him aß.a.couater-balancing force and successor to iiuiow. Prince Eulcn:.burg a|sa quarrelled.with his',former ally Horr von Holsteih, an ablo diplomatist, who in tho Foreign Office ranked next to the .Secretary for Foreign Affairs;,failure of'the Moroccan'policy, and the consequent Gcr-■ma'n-retre'ut at Algeeiras, >gave'a chanco for dismissing Holstein. But this final act of ilfsortipn .tartris , to 'have .heeii; the' , undoing •(.' tho-camarilla.'; Holstom, considering that his friends had betrayed him, formed an alliance with IJ err■''Maximilian 'Harden, who "wields the most dreaded.peni in Gormany," 'and " revealed to'Herr Harden , :the existence '.of this'* occult government behind the official quo', tho "round table" at- which, an irrer sponsible clique of courtiers ' settled the affairs ; -of.- Stato. , v...Then .'.; followe d, tho 'iiukunft article's, tho 'charges concerning "the ring of mystics," -the' hints of the immoral practices of its .members— admittedly "brought'in : tho ; interests"'.of political "change rather than those of morality; tho challenge to a duel (not accepted) issued by Count Kuno von Moltko to ■ Herr, Harden; the action of the Crown Prince;, in.j)l_acing the Zukunft articles' before' the' , Aaiser: the Kaiserls " banishment from.Court ".of Prince Eulbuburg and dismissal of Count Kuno von Moltko from the Military Governorship of 'Berlin:; the Kaiser's dismissal of Count Posadowsky:, •'■ whose fault seems to have been that the camarilla had singled him out as the suc-cessor-of Prince finally Count Kuno' von Aloltko's prosecution of Herr H.-irdeii for criminal libel. , As evidence of tho popularity in Germany of attack.on character as a political weapon, we'havo the cabled -statement of October 3 that "a pamphlet charging Prince von Billow with immorality has been, traced to a ■pawcrf.uj clkjii'e who . overthrow; '••- ■'•' Prince, von 'Biilow ' Iβ ■'• prosecuting Horr Brand, the nominal author." Evidently the camarilla is hitting bacK.' _;