The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-28
BISMARCK,s BRILLIANT SCHEME.
He Is Accused of a Design to Partition tn
British Empire.

He Is Accused OF a Design TO ParC1t7On the
British Empire.
Berlin Correspondence Philadelphia Times
There are shrewd trained observers here who
believe the ultmatum of this policy to be moth
ing less than the demolition of the British En-
pire, with division of the spoils which would
give TO Russia India, to France Egypt and Hong
Kong and to Germany South Africa. There are
others who see only strategic plan to pit the
various powers against each other and prevent
combinations which might menace Germany
Between all these somewhere lies the truth. the
only certainty being that the truculent and ag,-
gressive side of Prince Bismarcks present atti-
tude is reserved exclusively for England. The
act of this week in publishing under the sug-
gestive title of German Claims in Fiji an old
correspondence with Lord Granville concerning
some exorbitant German pretensons to property
in the islands which were fairly disposed Of by
an exhaustive Judicial inquiry illustrates the
spirit hostile to England which now rules here
The object of the present publication is guessed
to be partly to help to discredit Lord Granville at
the coming session of Parliament by showing
that he finally consented to the reopening of
cases which for long time he refused to reopen,
and partly to nourish the growing German no
ton that all the German colonial and commercial
aspirations have an utiring and ubiquitous foe in
England.
All the modern Prussian military books die
tate the anxiom that the first great principle in
war is so to arrange that the adversary shall APP
pear the aggressor, and as Bismarck's plans de-
velop into acts am sure that we shall find them
all controlled by purpose to force England into
throwing the gauntlet down to him. Germany
cannot alone fight England. As Frederick the
Second said, such would be as impossible a
I fight between dog and a snake, but Germany
and another power with an added fleet could
fight her. and 1T is impossible to doubt that
Prince Bismarck has this ally in hand if not for
an assured conflict at least for a possible ONE
long talk which have had here with an able
and travelled Frenchman serving in official
capacity, and who knows more of the situation
than any other person who is at liberty to say
anything, induces the belief that Russia is this
ally and not France.
In this view the new rapprochement between
Berlin and Paris attempts to do more than Sc
cure neutrality for France for quid pro quo Of
aid in Egypt. More than this it would be i'm
possible for NJ Ferry to persuade the French
into. On the other hand Russia is ready for an
advance on Herat and Cabul in Asia and de-
scent on the Bosphorus in Europe, both of which
would leave the fleet free for operations in the
n orth Sea. 1t must be borne in mind that Ger
many and Russia are the sole coplaintiffs in the
Cairo Caisse action, and that they will be able to
get joint casus belli out of that if they wish
ia view OF the matter which offers the only
intelligent clew to Russia's interference in
Egyptian affairs.
"Ali the same said my Partisan friend as we
finished this talk in the Platz Am Opera Haus,
almost in the shadow of Frederick the Greats
statue, Il have the consolation to believe that
within twenty years shall see Cossacks camped
in this square. Russia has every year excess
OF ], loo, 900 births and more immigrants than en-
igrants, which in twenty years means gain
equivalent to the population of a frst-class
power. Germany has an excess of only 500, coo
Births over one-half of which is lost in emigra-
ton. Let Germany helm Russia now to break
England and seize India and the Dardanelles if
she will Later she would be eaten in turn by
.her ally, just Austria eaten after she had
helped to strangle poor Denmark"