The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-19
Concessions of Greater Importance
Than Those Asked in
Venezuela.
ABATEMENT AT THE KAISER
Britons Gasp Over What They Consider
the Cool Impudence of Ger.
manyS Ruler.
Copyright, 1895. BY the New York Times.

LONDON, Eng, Jan. Is. - Although
these little islands are still resounding
with the turbulent echoes of Music Hall
patriotism and the dockyards are still
working overtime to hurry forward new
ships for commission, immediate occasion
for excitement seems to have passed away.
Germany produces the effect of having
backed down. Even those of her inspired
papers who keep up the ugliest talk ad-
nit that there IS noovert action Just at pres
ent. They say instead that Germany will
keep the Transvaal Just as France keeps
Egypt-as a weapon eternaIly hanging
over England 5 head to be used whenever
England gets in tight corner.
This suggestion probably infuriated the
English more than open defiance would
do. They SEQ with amazement the report
that the Kaiser has said that he is coming
to the CoweS regatta this summer, quite as
usual.
The cool impudence of this proposition
fastens universal attention upon a story
given with all the appearance of veracity
in Truth that in 1894, while Emperor Viii
liam was entertaining the Prince of Wales,
the Duke OF Cambridge and dozen other
eminent Enghshmen on board his Yacht
oil the Isle of Wight, telegram was
brought IN announcing grave complica-
ton between the French ami English in
Siam and he jumped on.a chair, waved his
napkin and shouted, "Hurrah, at last you
are in trouble"
1t is understood that something like this
did happen, and people here, turning it
over in their minds, feel that it will be i'm
possible for that young man to come here
any more. Some papers hint openly that
he gets drunk at table and then says and
does these incredible things, but the pub
lie prefers TO believe that he is a malignant
lunatlc and the fire of popular antipathy
to him burns on very steadily all over Eng
land.
Beyond the visible evidence that Lord
Salisbury is striving to use the German
quarrel to patch up an understanding with
France, the week has not brought much
TO help clear the obscure and involved
European situation. Overtures to French
friendship, which viii fill the English
papers, are too clumsy and obviously in
terested not 10 raise a smile on Partisan
lips but there are signs that the idea is
being seriously considered nevertheless.
imagine that the event OF the next few
weeks viii contribute rather sensationally
TO this very desirable end.
1t is whispered that in routing ont the
gang of harpies who feasted on the poor
petit suriers'" carcass the police have
stumbled on an extraordinary lot of clevs
TO much larger mystery. Ever since the
discovery OF the Dreyfus treason. which
could not well be accounted for on merce-
nary grounds, there has been growing nm
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spiracy existed in the heart OF Paris. which
worked in close relation with the German
embassy, and served German purposes.
but primarily sought to turn the be-
trayal of France TO the interest of a bupe
lnterna tional combination of financiers.
get hint now that the seizure of ST
Ceres papers has put the evidence of this
into the hands OF the French Government
and that at the appropriate dramatic
moment there will be disclosure which
will not only startle France bus evoke an
explosion of popular fury against Ger
many. Already the anti-Semitic French
press is talking plainly about this and
though other papers still guardedly OBJ
serve their rule of saying nothing which
can offend the Jewish banking world. thev
Will be driven from their reserve if all one
hears about RosenthaPs connections are
true.
1t is not a mere chance that all these
blackmailing journalists and politicians
who are N prison or on the threshold of
prison, and who have been doing some
thing to down the French enimosities
toward Germany, have been most violent
and persistent traducers of England.
&c r1aip auotob that tho
phobia of the Partisan press in recent
years has been deliberately melted and
paid for and great hopes are being built
here on the belief that the French people
must realize this at last, and in their rage
at swindlers and traitors who have been
managing this anti-English crusade will
turn again to English friendship. Per-
haps it would be better if these hopes were
more prudently moderated. Deloncle's s
colonial group is still a powerful race to
bully the Chamber of Deputies, and seri-
Gus papers like LIE Temps and LIE Journal
des Debats still lend themselves to its de-
termined fight against allowing France
and England to become reconciled. They
seize now upon England's remarkable
cession of territory on the Mekong not as
a gracious act, but as proof that Eng
land is in a cowardly mood, which France
ought to utilize to get also the Niger,
Egypt and whatever else she fancies.
Whether these people can intimidate
Bourgeois and Berthelot next week or over
throw them IN the Chamber of Deputies
IS a nervously important problem. Per-
haps they may, unless that fumored reve-
Iation OF who IS really behind the colonial
group and Its journalistic pirates is forth
coming.
This effort to make friends with France