Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-16
RUSSIAN flNESSE.
She Has Been Secretly Supplying China With Money and Germany Is Much
 rrtated.

Berlin, June 15.--The government de- siring everything to go on sweetly while the hob-nobbng with representatives on the occasion of the kiel reception is on, the semi-official press remains unn- spired as to the question as to how to deal with the developed aspects of the undoubted alliance between France and Russia. If the brief utterances which have been permitted to the newspapers could be construed into a guide as to the emperor's opinions on the subject it would seem that no great importance Is attached to the Chinese loan recently floated in Paris and guaranteed Joy Rus sia.
 Still it is known beyond peradventure that the foreign office has sent a dispatch to St. Petersburg asking for explicit in- formation in regard to the conditions under which the Russian government has guaranteed the loan, and, added 10 this assured fact, it is asserted upon good authority that Germany accom- panied the inquiry with a strong re- monstrance against the manner in which the France-R Russian entente was ac- complished The German banking firms having intimate relations with the far east have learned upon indisputable au- thority that the Russian government ad- vanced to the government at Pekin dur ing the time that the war between China and Japan was progressing va- rious sums of money, aggregating sufficient amount to cover the loan of f16,000, 900, which the St. Petersburg gov- ernment guaranteed. It Is alleged that upon the first occasion Russia advanced to China f5,000,000, and shortly after wards f3.000,000, following these loans with smaller Sums, which make 1t appear that the so-called Chinese loan raised in Paris is merely cancellation in round-ab bout way of the indebtedness or China to Russia.
 The pretty fully verified news that the St. Petersburg government has for the past six months been conducting trans actions in an underhand way with China has greatly added to the irritation which is felt in government as well as in finan- cial circles here. This feeling is espe- cially strong among financiers, who have been awakened to the consciousness that they have been duped and befooled into long and useless series of nego- tiations with Paris, Pekin and St. Pe- tersburg capitalists and bankers in re- gard to the loan which France and Rus sia eventually captured, and the result is that Berlin bankers--and, for that matter, the Berlin government-enter- tains a feeling of keen resentment over the manner in which they have been treated. The Russian National bank, which has taken f60000 900 of the Chinese loan has been sounded by the Berlin Disconto Gesetschaft upon the question
 
 received a categorical refusal to comply with the requests made, although the Compoir Descompte of Paris, which is intimately connected in q business way with the Disconte Geselschaft, recom- nended to the Russian house that the German Banking association be allowed to join. With a view of abating the feeling of soreness which prevails here, the China embassy was inspired not to make an explicit contradiction of the allegation that any official advices had been made to China by Russia during the progress of the Japanese war.
 Tn regard to the greater Chinese loan, which the Berlin syndicate is trying to float to the exclusion of Russia and France, 1t may be said that the nego- tiations are progressing favorably and that the London financiers are wholly in sympathy with the capitalists of Berlin. The outlook is now that the German syndicate will control the great loan from sheer force of circumstances.