The German Emperor has been received with enthusiasm and many
marks of honour on his visit to the Emperor Francis Joseph. On Wednesday he made a long speech at the Town Hall of Vienna. After thanking the Municipality for naming part of the Ringstrasse after him, he referred to the critical moment " when the Emperor Francis Joseph's ally had stood at his side in shining armour to fulfil what was at once a command of duty and of friendship, for the Austro- German alliance bad passed into the belief and life of both peoples to the advantage of the world at large." This was an allusion, of course, to the coercion of Russia by Germany when Servia, with the strength of Russia behind her, was threatening to trip up Austro-Hungarian schemes. Hitherto the German bureaucracy has wrapped up the act of coercion in extremely polite disguises. It has been reserved for the Emperor to call a spade a spade, or, rather, shining armour shining armour.
