The German Emperor has been engaged this week on a
tour through Posen and Silesia. On Tuesday, accompanied by the Empress and five of their sons, the Prince Regent of Bavaria, and military representatives of Italy and Russia, he reviewed the fifth Army Corps at Posen. The city was crowded with patriotic Germans and settlers and lavishly decorated, and though the weather was wet and cheerless, the Emperor was heartily received; but the mass of Poles held aloof, and the tone of the press shows that the "Prussianizing" policy still rankles. On Wednesday the Emperor attended the consecration of a new chapel in the Residenzschloss at Posen and the opening of the restored Rathaus, one of the few Polish relicfof the ancient city. In replying to an address by the Burgomaster, the Emperor said that a new day had dawned for Posen, a day of rapid rise to prosperity, and expressed a hope that the Rathaus would always be the scene of harmonious and patriotic deliberations. On Wednesday night the Emperor made a conciliatory speech at a banquet to the representatives of the Province of Posen, and arrived at Breslau next day for the celebrations in honour of the centenary of the War of Liberation.
