The San Francisco call., 1896-10-18
STRONG FELL INC
AGAINST ENGL AND
German Newspapers Fan
Strong Anti British
Opinion,
Bitter Denunciation of Alleged
Selfshness, Arrogance and
Isolation.
GROWS OUT OF NEW ALLIANCE
Stories of an Agreement Between
England, Russia an France That
Are Not Relished.
GROWS OUT OF NEW ALLIANCE

BERLIN, GERMANY, Oct. 17.-Although
slightest change in the coolly courteous
relations which for some time past have
existed betw en- Germany and Great
Britain, the sudden outburst of strong
anti : British opinion which has been
joined III by the German newspapers OF
all parties has become the Leading tonic
of discussion in political circles. De-
nunciation of England's selfsnness and
arrogance, allusion to her isolation and
suggestions of how to diminish the pre-
tensions of Great Britain appear in the
North German Gazette, the Cologne Ga
zette and other organs OF less Importance,
with a degree of unanimity which gives
the idea that the utterances emanate from
some common and responsible source. Ii
these attacks had in reality any official
origin their line of argument would be
worth quoting, but 1t is emphatically de-
MED at the Foreign Office. that there is
the slightest foundation for the prevail
ing rumors of an alteration in the rela-
tions between the German and English
Governments.
Apart from such denial on the part of
the Foreign Office scrutiny into the cause
of the present boiling over of the German
press proves that it is not founded upon
anything whatever that Is going on be-
tween the Berlin and London Govern.
ments, but that it is purely and simply a
case of newspaper war III which the
journals are allowed unlimited license, the
Government not caring now far they
NAV GO.
What these newspapers are saying now
arose from the publication of articles in
the leading London papers reporting the
possible establishment of an English, Rus
sian and French alliance, with the detach-
lnent of Italy from the Dreibund. The
German journalists who are guiding the
tone of the best papers in Germany are
quite conversant with the truth of what
an English preacher, now deceased, once
said, that English politics is not guided
by such hare-brained chatter and ire spon-
sible frivolity. But coming on the heels
OF the jubiiant articles of the French
papers in view OF the recent visit OF the
Gar and Czarina to Paris, the style of the
comments INDUCED in by the British press
was felt to be intolerable, and to demand
some notice.
the practical significance of this vol
canic eruption OF criticism ON the part of
the German papers, however, lies in the
tendency to heighten German hatred
toward England, enabling the Govern
ment at an opportune moment to get the
country to act in open hostility to Eng
land either automatically or actively ply
sical.
When a calm toned Catholic paper like
the Cologne Volks Zeltung, now the lead
ing organ OF the Centrist party in the
west of Germany, denounces England as
conspiring against Germany at the Quir-
inal and exciting The Italian Government
to desort the Dreibund, while the Berlin
Tageblatt, the Berlin Post and other or
gans urge tie immediate ousting of the
British from Egypt, it is evident that Ger
man feeling is ripe for anything against
the English.
The story published in to-day's issue of
the Vienna Neue Freie Presse, alleging
that the Russian War Office has ordered
all of the regiments IN the d strict of
Kieff, Odessa and Charkoff to be at once
put upon a full war-footing, and that all
officers on leave of absence and tie retir-
ing list have been recalled to service, is
utterly discredi. ed here. Nothing is known
in official circles here showing that Russia
is modifying troops, and the assertion of
the Neue Freie Presse that the Pope pro-
fesses to be aware of "a step toward the
complete mobilization of the Russian force
and portends that Russia will receive
European mandate 10 occupy Constanti-
nopl is regarded as too absurd TO be
worthy of notice.
The Pesther Lloyd and the Vienna
Politische Correspondent concur in stat
ing that concert OF the powers has been
agreed upon, the probable basis of the
maintenance of the territorial status quo
of Turkey, but upon European control of
The Turkish administration. This state
ment concurs with tho, advices recently
cabled in hese dispatches, which were OBJ
tanned from official sources.