EMPEROR FREDERICK'S DIARY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8319, 20 October 1888, Page 2

EMPEROR FREDERICK'S DIARY.

A FORMAL COMPLAINT BY GERMANY. ] TBy Eleotrio Tblegkaph.-Copibiqht V (Per Press Association.) London, October 19. (Received October 20, at 1 a m ) a nS, U«i Hatf eldt Wilde^nrg, the German ambassador, has made a formal complaint to Lord Salisbury m reference to the publication o faosiviiUs of portions of the late Emperors dau-y. The Premier repudiated any complicity m the matter by himself or any members of the Royal Family, and has STf t£,T^ tQ in< 3Qiries " *>■ h™ parts of the late Emperor's diary came into the possession of the publishers.

The following despatch, dated Augusfc 10, appeared in.an American contemporary!-" The North German Gazette stated in a small, Unobtakt to Lte tH°r^ rederick which &d been taken to England had been returned. Aa uninhave believed that it was the announcement of the termination of an international difficulty between England and Germany. The papers whM^J?^* 0* from CharlotteXrg when she raited her daughter and dying son-in-XC re RW P?Pe- rS r and belon Sed Germany. Tf fhl ]? 18mar<* formed Queen Victoria to r^ii^ anV? ked --«"* **» documents be returned to their owners. The Queen, however, did not look at the matter in the same manner that the German Chancellor did! and refused to surrender the papers, of which she had possessed herself of a trunk S The next summons for the deliver? of the documents was not so gentle not polite. It was th« ZZ d t0 Lord Sa--*bury, and set forth that thKfn werett>? P">Perty of Germany, and nut nfh f e h ? ueen f had n° .™re right to take them ?hl ll,^ T^,^- many way touch them, than she had to walk in and carry off the Crown 2£Sf ,Thel ™ <*ancellor accompanied ?Ws ISi ti dT an. d f°l the ?<*•-*<-■ with a grim threat that unless they were restored he would [SSKErS L°ndon accom-

Lord Salisbury's efforts to make the stubborn Queen understand that she had no right to do as she had done, and to convince he^that the documents must be given up, caused the worthy Premier to have a relapse of his old enemy, the gout, and to be really ill over tbe accumulating lZ blf *endi "S th« Queen's decision ta Z S?J ■)* PaPe™.^ e English Government 5,5 r on*. °^H news bom the German EfcSi"* d Sal,sbury ™s not permitted w„ "n*tlu*-*e yarding the arrangements between Germany and Russia for the disposit.Z hß^ gar,l, a: The Queen *eld <»* for some time, but finally gave m, although in her heart there is a new-born hatred of Bismarck and the »I?ZT\ f?° W *hat B~ck has accom! phshed what he set out to do, the immediate friction is removed and the wheels of State move easier between Germany and Ensland though the^Queen's unwise acfc will lonf S courterie^' eschan *c of reciprocal State