The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
FRANCES TEETH SHOWN.
So the Germans Will RetaIiate
by Celebrating War
Victories.
BISMARCK ALSO DISPLEAsED.
Emperor William Ignores the Efforts
of the Ex-Chancellor to Secure
the Waterway.

BERLIN, GERMANY, June 29.-The open
ing of the North Sea canal, with it's ac-
companying festivities, was heralded as All
event inaugurating European peace, but it
is now seen that it has embitered the rela-
lions of Germany with France and Russia.
In consequence of this state of affairs the
Government has abandoned further at
tempts to deceive the public by the use of
deceptive phrases in regard to the estab-
lishment of amity between Germany
and France, and has taken the honest
course of permitting the semi-oficial or
gans to declare that the French squadron
during its stay at Kiel introduced dis
cordant note into the fetes which were de-
signed to be memorable as an occasion Of
peaceful international rejoicing.
The immediate result of the Govern
| ment's open recognition of French hos
tility is the determination on the part of
the imperial authorities to make the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the browning
victory of the Germans over the French at
Sedan on September 1, $780, great
| national celebration. It is with this idea
that committee composed of prominent
soldiers and statesmen with the full au-
| thority of the Emperor will inaugurate
throughout the empire a series of volks-
feste extending to all the towns and ham,
lets in the country, beginning with the an
niversary of the victory of the Germans
over the French at Woerth, in Alsace,
August 6, 1870, and eliminating in gen.
eral holiday on the anniversary of the bat
Ia >f &c cd hot he
peror will go to Woerth on August 6, and
unveil monument on the battlefield.
The German papers comment half in a
spirit of anger and equally in a Split of
derision Upon the statements emanating
from French and Russian sources that a
serious diplomatic question is arising af-
fecting the right of Germany to absolute
control of the North Sea canal. According
to the statements it is claimed that under
the provisions of the treaty of 1857 annex
ing Schleswig- Holstein to Germany, Den
mark. in renouncing the. toll duties which
vessels paid in passing through the sound,
included the regions of the canal which
were then in Danish waters. 1t is further
claimed that the Cars Paul and Nicholas
of Russia, who held suzerainty rights over
the Dutch Schleswig and Holstein, only
temporarily coded the territories to the
King of Denmark, and that the Gar con-
sequently can revise his claims and inter-
fere at any time.
In short, it is claimed that Russia and
France may cooperate in an endeavor to
obtain the neutrality of the canal, placing
it upon the same footing as the Danish
sound. Such proposal cannot, of course,
ha oil ri ~, -
clearly indicates the greatly increased ten
sion instead of the recently hoped-fo
Cancellation.
Another unhappy consequence of the
fetes is the renewed rupture between the
Emperor and Prince Bismarck, who has
taken grievous offense at the absence OF
all mention of his lame as having mi
tiated the project of the canal, while hon.
ors are showered upon his detested ene-
my, DR.. Won Boetticher, vice-president of
the Council of Ministers, and Imperial
Secretary of State for the Interior, as the
instigator of the work. and upon Baron
Marschall Won BiebeTstein, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, who contributed absolute
ly nothing toward the work. The ex-
Chancellor feels SO strongly the slight put
upon him by the Emperor's ignoring him
that he has directed his son-in-law, Count
Won Rantzau. to resign his post as Ger
man Minister to The Hague.
The Hamburger Nachrichten is very Bit
ter in its attacks upon the Government
and insists that the canal is almost ex-
clusively due to Prince Bismarck. Be-
ginning with the annexation to Germany
of the Danish duchies the Nachrichten
says: prince Bismarck perfected the
scheme of u ship canal from Kiel to Bruins
buttel. In this plan he persisted for years
against the highest and strongest in
fuence in Germany, including Count Won
Moltke, yet no mention is made of him
throughout the proceedings, while officials
whose services were limited in improving
the waterway have been selected for
bestowal of honors If obsequious Minis
ters like DR.. Won Boettieher and Freiherr
Marschall Won Bieberstein, men of no
political convictions and solely desiring to
preserve their situations with the advan-
tages attached thereto, remain in..fayor we
know no Ministers more dangerous to the
interests of the empire"
The article finds very large measure of
sympathy throughout the country.
The Cologne VolkZeitung, the clerical
organ, in an article congratulating the
Centerists on the occurrence of the breach
between the Kaiser and the ex-ChanceIlor.
says:
1.-THE Emperor can surely no longer be
indignant at the refusal of the Reichstag
to do homage to a Primes who is always
ready to show himself malcontent."
Upon the beginning of passenger and
mail steam traffic in the canal on Monday,
separate steamer was dispatched from
Hamburg for Kiel, Stettin and Koenigs-
berg and vice versa. Freight steamers will
sail in the meantime only once week.
The engineers of the canal have been
correctly credited with stating to the men,
bers of the press that it had not been in
tended to open the canal to traffic uutil
1896, but that they gave way to the EN-
peror's insistence and opened the water
way prematurely. In consequence the
project will be unsafe for vessels drawing
over fourteen feet of water until the works
are completed.