Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-06-16
BERLIN NEWS NOTES.
The Franco-Uussinn Entente ma
the Chinese Loan.

BERLIN; june 15.-The government
desiring everything to go on sweeuy
while the hobnobblng with foreign rep
resontatives on the occasion OF the
KEEL receptions is on. the semi-ofiicial
press remains uninspired as to the ques-
tlon how 10 deal with the developed as
poets Of the undoubted alliance between
France and Russia. II the brief utter
ances which have been permitted to the
newspapers could be construed INTO
guide as to the Emperor's opinions on the
subject. Il would seem that no great i'm
portance is attached to the Chinese loan
recently noated in Paris and guaranteed
by Russia.
Stll, 1t is knokn beyond peradVenture
that the Foreign Office has sent dis
patch TO St. Petersburg asking for explicit
information in regard 10 the condi-
ton under which the Russian Govern
ment has guaranteed the loan. and added
to this assured fact, IT is asserted upon
good authority that Germany accompa-
MED the inquiry with a strong remon-
STRANGE against the manner In when the
Franco Russian entente was accomplished.
The German banking firms having intl-
mate relations with the far East nave
learned upon indisputable authority that
the Russian Government advanced 20
the government at Picking during the
time that the war between China and
Japan was progressing various sums OF
money, aggregatng sufficient amount
TO cover the loan of 100000. which the
ST. Petersburg Government guaranteed. IL
is alleged that upon the first occasion
Russia advanced 10 China 100000, ami
shortly afterwards 100000, following
these loans with smaller ones, which
make il appear that the so-called Chinese
raise in Paris IS merely a cancellation
in a roundabout way of the Indebtedness
Of China to Russia.
FEELING OF RESENTMENT.
The pretty fully verified news that the
| St. Petersburg Government has for the
| pas; six months been conducting transac-
| tons in an underhand way with China
| has greatly added 20 the irritation which
| is felt in government as well rs IN iinan-
| cial circles here. This feeling is especial
| ~ strong among tinanciers. who have been
| awakened TO a consciousness that they
| have been duped and befooled into a long
| and useless series Of negotiations with
| Paris, Peking, and st. Petersburg capt.
| talists and bankers in regard 10 the loan
when France and Russia eventually cap
tured and the result is that the Berlin
|
Government, entertain n feeling OF keen
resentment over the manner in which they
have been .reated.
The Russian National Bank. which has
! taken 100000 of the Chinese loan, has
been sounded by the Berlin Disconto Ges-
selscnaft upon the question OF floating
the new issue in Berlin, and has received
q categorical refusal 10 comply with the
| requests made. although the Comptori dos
Escomptes, Of Paris. which IS intimately
connected in a business way with the
! Dlsconto Gesselschaft, recommended 10
the Russian house that the German Bank
! ing Association be allowed 10 join.
With view to abating the feeling Of
soreness which prevails here. the Chinese
! embassy was inspired yesterday to make
! an explicit contradiction Of the allega-
lions that financial advances had been
made by Russia to China during the pro-
| gress OF the Chnese-Japanese war.
PRESS COMMENT.
OF the semi-oGically inspired news
papers the Hamburg Correspondent
, spoken on the subject The Cor
| respondent declares that the Russian
! coup viii undoubtedly cause a feeling Of
! lack Of confidence among the Powers.
which will be as lasting IS IT VIII be dis
agreeable, ana viii certainly have its in
! fluence In future diplomatic Transactions.
! The Nossiche Ze.tung assa.ls Chancellor
| Won HohenlOhe vigorously for his inaction.
| II Prince bismarck were in power, the,
Zeitung says Germany would never have
been so deceived as she has in the FAR
| East.
The Kreuz Heitung urges the govern
ment 10 yet assume Germany's hold upon
a desrabl. post in the North Of China,
as the basis OF a German ground from
which the movements Of Russia can be
| closely watched
THE GREATER LOAN.
In regard 10 the greater Chinese loan.
| which a Berlin syndicate are trying 10
| float, 10 the exclusion OF Russia and
France. it may be said that the negoiia-
tons are progressing favorably and that
the London financiers are wholly in SYM
pathy with the capitalists OF Berlin. The
outlook now is that the German syndi-
cate will control the great loan from