BERLIN INTRIGUE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 29, 29 October 1907, Page 5

BERLIN INTRIGUE.

; MOap=HARDEN CASE. EULENBUhG CLIQUE AND FRENCH DIPLOMAT. • . INTERVIEW WITS'KAISER.; BY. TELEGRAM—TRESS ASSOCIATION— tOrTRIGHT. : Eieriin, Octofer 27., ■In the action For crimihai t 'li'bcibV6iight by Count ivVinp' von Molt-ki^. formerly Jlilitajry Govcrndr'of Berlin, against Herr Maximilian Harden, editor of the ". Zuklirift" (which published' articles alleging 'iiftmorality aiul intrigue),,Mib .winding up bf-.tlio case for the defence 'aroused cheers in , court. Count Moltko was greeted with; groans and cat-calls in tho streets. ■ •. : .. Judgment will bo given; qn.Tuesday. - FOtlii NOT BREAK THE.RING.' s •=■ ;. .'. (Rec, Oci.. 28, 11.34 p.m.). ' ' ; :'.'.':'■'....■.'■ . '. . Berlin,. October 28.. .. Count Kuno von Moltko protested that •Kβ friendship for Pfinco Ilulcnliurg was above suspicion, and' declared. that ho retii-ed irorii the Military ' Commanti'aiitship of Berlin with honour. ■ ' ■' • . . Horr Hardoii thade a two/Wiirs'. speech', which was..a political and moral indictment Eulpnhurg cUqiiG,,'Hb emphasised tlio fact that Hie 'Crown''Princo cf Germany told the Kaiser'blip'day about tire current fc'p'orts, and tlilifc Count.Moltko resigned, the .next .day. :• rvvr' : ,v v,:;:: Herr Harden dcclarediithat'-foiir Chancellors had tried .to eliminate ~-Prince, Eulcrtbiirg's influence' witli t)ho .iC.aispr, and had failed; M.'Ltcomtc (formerly tfirst Secretary brtho French Embassy iii Berlin, who was suddenly . recalled. about.';.tho"time, of the downfall of the camarilla) was, Herr Harden stated, ono. of the ' Eulenburg ..clique,. and tried to arrango 'a' niccting'' bctWoon- the Kaiser and the, French '.President, mi tho pretext that the rcciiicih'ation of Germany aii'd Franco was;.passible. .'l'he/'Kaiser,.spoilt ah hour or twp iat Licbeiiliufg CJast'le (the Eulenburg faniiiy-seat ileal - Berlin) talking to Prince- Kulonlmrg anil M. Lccomte, though a friend of Prince Euiehburg asserted that, they only talked about'art and French literature- '.■''■ ■'. ■, ■■. . ■"; ■; ::\ defeNdA¥t*s career.' : a pup.il op prince bismarck and : ;' l . ::; lIEBB' HOJLSTEYn. t; j . •fieri , Maxi'milinn Harden,'the dbfeiVdant ill tliis'acHiin. of criminal libel brought by Count Kuno is probably the most Btrikt ing figure'iti :BBriin-jpurnalist|i;' Eeroiß a.brief' story of his'present pbiiitibn,- and earlier historyj, frotu the pen of. a BerliH cprrespbiiftcnt :— ■/'HeiT •HiH'den •wields tho most dreaded pen 'in Uie German ■ Empii-D;, niiil he has. iri.itllo, laßtfeif-..years contiuered fof" himself a position which is uiiiijue in t-io history: of Ucriiirih joMnihlisnV. .Ho first. caine; to'thb frbntj.l'i matter of i.vyoll-6 bi , tliirteeh years ago. Hti WToto > seri-DS of artir.len under the •title Apostataj which created a scrisatioii.ih Berlih. In .a.country whore the Press is kept so chiU- | fully in hiitid jis . Gornliiiiy people., wore."iihiiccustomed-, tn relid .siiili Outsjlokeii ojpiAi'ofiii-. For Herr Harden did '.not even fear td-irilicijta the Kaieer hiiiisolfi .■ So'nio eight or ten years ago ho foiimle(l ; tlio"Ziikunfti' a little weekly revipw of about tliir.ty pages, in .ivliicli lie coiihis 1 outspoken; , ' articles. I knpVv of no. journalist to whoiil I 'can-, compare him excqpt . Henri Kochofort, the. preiit French pamphleteer. -"But I 'mean 'Henri Uochefort in his prime, when his. weekly. 'Lnhterne' shook the. Sec.olid Kmpii-o wifli sledge-hammer strokes. His ol'itlipbkehneSji vviife hot long.ih getHilg Herf Harden in trouble. He Was acniisetl rtf 'tei--e inajdstq/ and did. a term of imprisonment in a German fortress; ' . ■' * ■ '-,'

Visits iH6; lron Q|iahfccii6r; ' ' "But his writings attracted the atteW :tioh of then sitting grbfrlihg in Friednehsriih and jiaiired out the biltirik'br -of hist- heart , about the way thb kaiser had ■.treaWd him.'.'.Ho'jiei'it foi- Herr liarderi; (ilid.'a, .sort of alllalico;. was foriiibd between themr.: Thb'i journalist' was a frequent visitbilit Fricdrichsruhi iihd he becatnb an hetive-ex-ponent'■ of ~!ilirf''eXrChari, c ellbr's Views; . Tlio'ro is 1 rib doiibt that-Princt! :Bistnarck cbnlided to him, nlany things.that gave him the,key to much that was going on behind the scene's in German Government, circles. Bit by bit Herr •Harden' becanio identified with tho fiisinarckiiih standpoint, and- toHlay, he. iß,.li6Qiceil-yiWbh as tli6' : .qxpqneht of "tho ~Bi|inni-bk'»-trhd'ifioli iii home 'and ■ foreign"-.- politics.'' Biit' ifliat'"the bkClmdcbllor nrobablyintiiited hinl into wop ilia intrigue and cabiils.of tllerßei-lih-Court;- There is no Court, in iJui-openvhore movo liiystorioiis isbts are spiin, ho, Court where iiitrigub , iiiid tl-ciichbfy is so fife. ' " : : '.'"■' "' "' " """" -Bisrhnrck's Struonldj. . ■!'."&A ''Bisiriai-ck'rf public career was bmbitterod Ijy tlie bonataiit-'jti-iiirelc against sedi-ot enemies. Thb-Court hated .lum,,(:b;ii ! iiian v -oiid, did ;ill;tliG.v'could to poison; thfe'-iMfief-iSga'iiftt' him. Tho famous Ariiiin base ■ wilß one of tlie few intrigues-ythiit btcaiiie publicly khoivii: But ilolyo.dy.Jciie'w better l than Bismiirek hbiv' untiring.his elieniies were, and no sbdher whs pne..intrigue defuated. , than .α-fjesli oiib ivns Bpun. : l'owerful'.'riobliSice'iJ-' had' the 'Kaiser's tali , , and lispd' tlieir gl-gat: but s'.lri''cs'ponsilill')" power to embarrass • tlio policy ! bf" ; the "pfgiffl' tlmhdellor. In this respect' theio'has been ho ohangd in German official life. . JiitrigUd and cabal lire.still rampant. Tho. Jyiiisoivjs siii-i i-oiifided.bynienHlte.-PWiicb'HbncKel: von Dquiici'i?iiiai'cli, Prihco PliilHnzu'EfiJenburijrl.Cieffi (■ral vbn Hitlsen,, iiild a'dbJch 'nibr6V : tflW.l/rfl'iii' a kind of power behind the throne witlrwliicif Ministers--havavto , .-reckon; -;•-■ , v'i This is. the camarillb which .has "fallen as tho result of the bj-Kopehing the .Kaiser got .in Ilei'l , Hai-deji's articles iB.-the "2iikunft." J-lov.- for--the judgment, niay''confirm tlicii- full oi rehabilitate them rclnaias to bo seen; certainly tremendous issues hang on tho struggle now going on.'.'" ' ■-—-". >>.- ...

Eulonburg and . As Prince Bismarck was the-mentor of the journalist Hnfdeh in ; (he first. place, so, in l.ittor days,, has .:becii.Berr-;ilols(eih, lcho lest his jibwer at tlifi Fofeipi 'Office ostensibly because of the .failure of the Moroccan policy but really (it is nllesjod) ; because his foriuer friends of the. camarilla..deserted hini;...Tpili.ijtj lllb story of the r.uptiiro , ' between Prihcb' Eule'n-b.urg-;ahd.- Heriy yon tho/Siiiiie- correspondent writes:—"One 'day a violent attack on noiv,.von Holfltcin and on -Priuco, itijtstejclti (icrmaii Ariibaspadqr,;in :lj9'n(lon"(.wliohr'l'rihce' feared as a' np?sible Cnhiicell6Y)',"ii'p-peai-ed■ in'.tlio' 'Neiio ,I'he. article *as, ■ as. the l i 'renc]v > ,\ypuld.,'Ra.v,..f;o 'dociiineutp. that.it; was.cleai- that 'it ■'•cbtild not .have been' 'wl-itten l)y'ri RimpliS jou'i-nlilist;- , Pi-ilico ■'. Enh-nbhrg prob'iibly ■■fdareif "thflbrhis: complicity in it would bo suspectedj.aiid tele gi'aplioil to the Wilthermstrasisc.to express 'his disapproval of, this perfidious article,' and expressed the hope that thb '-Foreign ■'Olfifce'Two'u'hi' express its .sharpest, disapproval to tho author bf the'article if ho could be discovered. As Prince Eiilenburg Was Ahibiissador in the city jrlierti' the jouninl in (jh.csHbn was published; it would have been ensierfoi, him lo make tlie investigation 1 -' thalv' -the; - . -.Bi'.rlih -GoVerfiiiitiit.

Holst'ejn's, Shai-e. ■' ' '.',■'!•■.■■'•■• •'' : '" ■'■'"' '■■*"-.? :'...'"The first'.stop' was to" f*ct i'itt■ bf liefr'von Holseiii;*''iTlio ;, M6rbcc ; 6 lfiibroglio/ .furnished thiv necessary -pretext,-..and. he, wng called,uii to. resiijii. ' Evd.fy' efrqrtvWiis.'iiiacle .the' 'Knifier against •l , findo ;l pulbfr,' ri 'nhd the whole -iriduence .bt' j tlie:eamni:illa ; wafi-: (loyptcd 16: slinking his j)ositiph. . CoujitJ'oViidQwsk.y'Vvas adopted as thoir candidate for the tho t'hanfcellorship.. Jt was then that, the ohfagod Herr Ilolste'ih-'Jjßgiiii'-tfa B|vd-"Upii"{'to'lleri'. t Hahlßn: Wlicii GpiiPiill'Kimb vdh' jMoltke.wiifi.UiToiced by his, ,wifoj ■ Ilorr Jlardon-, todk., .rase of the Couhless, who' iiidile' further'reVcliitibiis regarding the machinations of Prince EulenbitVß, and showed him a correspoiidenco between.the latter nnd her husband which edifidd tho editor of the " Zukunft." lie then begaii his' campaign.; iignhist which went on-for six niontlis. Count von Moltke sent his seconds to Herr Uardcn, but the latter declined to go out, pointing out that if he got u bullot through him the fact would iiot (lisproye or diminish, the definite charges ho had made. And the ultimate result is'the resort,to the criminal courts, which for the moment lias centred the whole eyes of Eurico on the intrigues of Berlifc