MATTERS GERMAN.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 834, 4 June 1910, Page 5

MATTERS GERMAN.

SOLDIERS OVER-DRILLED: TWO DEATHS. EICHT IN HOSPITAL. THE EMPEROR AND HIS HEIR. By Teletrauh-Pross Aesoeiation-Oopyrlulit Berlin, June 2. The 7th Baden Regiment of Infantry, stationed at ilulhanscn, AlsaceLorraine, was so severely exercised on the drill-ground that fifty men became exhausted. Two died later, and eight are now in hospital. The Kaiser has ordered that volunteers, serving for a 'year at their own expense, shall forego the comforts of hotels and boardhighouses, and live in barracks, the same as ' ordinary soldiers. GERMAN BRAINS MORE FEARED THAN WARSHIPS. EDUCATION NEGLECTED IN BRITAIN. (Rec. June 3, 7.50 p m.) Melbourne, Juno 3. Professor W. A. Osbornc, addressing a meeting of business men, spoke in unsparing terms of tho contemptible position t-hnt England occupied, with relation to Germany and tho United States, in her attitude of indifference towards science and higher education. Ho attributed tho menace of Germany's growing rivalry to tho work done in German laboratories, and ironically pointed to the contrast between tho concern felt in England over victories gained by visiting Australian cricketers or New Zealand footballers, and the indifference shown when Germany, by purely intellectual effort in her laboratories,, robbed England of her Indian indigo trade. ' Tho Professor said ho was far moro afraid of Gorman organic chemistry than of her canals or Dreadnoughts.

[Professor W. A. Osborno is an M.B. and B.S. of Belfast, and obtained . his D.Ss. degree at the University of Tubingen, the German town where they make physical and surgical instruments and chemical apparatus—lines in which Germany has made great inroads , into British trad*. For a time the Professor was Assistant Professor of Physiology in tho University College, London. Since 1901 he has been Professor of Physiology and Histology in the University of Melbourne.] PRUSSIAN CIVIL LIST. BIG INCREASE. (Rec. Juno 3, 10.15 p.m.) Berlin, Juno 3. Tho Prussian Government proposes to. increase tho Kaiser's civil list of £785,965 by £200,000, owing to tho cost of living involving higher salaries for Court officials and moro expense in the upkeep of Royal theatres and tho establishments of tho Royal Princes. The non-Socialist parties have assented to tho increase. . , KAISER'S HEALTH. CROWN PRINCE, AS DEPUTY, WELL RECEIVED. Berlin, Juno 2. The King and Queen of the Belgians have concluded their visit to his Imperial Majesty the Kaiser. The Kaiser (who was recently reported to bo suffering from a boil ou the hand) was unable, in the present condition of his health, to attend tho State banquet and other functions in their, honour. The Crown Prineo Fredrick. AVilhelm (now 23 years of age) acted as his Imperial Majesty's deputy. .The Crown Prince has been the recipient of extraordinary popular demonstrations in Berlin. •