Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-11-05
BISMARCK AGAIN ANSWERS
The Hamburger Naehrichten
Bitterly Replies to Critics.
eUROPE'S LATEST SENSATION
Calls for Publication of Proof OF the
Infamous illumination" of Will
liam rs Policy-Caprivi Criticised.

tallh Tor GuDllcatlOn OF 1rOOI OF inc
%''Infamous Calumniation" Of Will
liam Ia Policy-Caprivi Criticised.
Hamburg, Nov. 3.-The Hamburger
Nachrichten, the organ of Prince Bis
marck, has another article on the SUBJ
ject of the Russo German treaty which
terminated i'll 1890, and the disclosures
of which by the Nachrichten has Great
ed such a sensation III Europe. The
article is entitled THE Russian
Treaty." and describes Prince Bis
marck's entente with Russia as a bril-
liant success of German craftsmanship.
The article then proceeds to say:
I'VE do not admit that a reap.
prooachment with Russia had lost all
value by the conclusion of the dreibund
treaty, nor will our allies share this
opinion. Reconciliation is not un.
known or undesired by them. On the
contrary, it has been noticed with salts
faction that Germany always employed
the Russian entente to prevent and set.
tie differences between Russia and
Austria. Had Austria and Italy
thought otherwise, they would during
the reign of William l have made rep
RESERVATIONS on the subject. This was
never done, although they were aware
of our civilization of political relations
and an entente with Russia would, de.
spite all military preparations and
bourse regulations, never be permitted
at Berlin.
Among the motives for our expose
of the German-Russo relations, all of
which we do not feel called upon to
disclose, is the continued classification
of historical facts by the clerical and
liberal and even the Unofficial press,
with the dishonest purpose of making
the government of William l and of
Bismarck responsible for all present
evils, especially the rupture of the
former favorable relations with Rus.
STA; rupture which certainly does not
improve Germany's position in Europe.
Therefore we publish the fact that the
rupture vas brought about during the
administration of General Won Caprivi,
through his qualified refusal of Russia's
request for the continuance of the Ell.
tente. Against this authentic proof
that the breaking with Russia occurred
under Won Caprlvi, the Infamous cal
uminations of Germany's policy under
William | cannot be proved. We
should be deemed more correct had an
official and documentary explanation
of the truth been forthcoming, as in
the case of the Ems dispatch, and we
even now recommend this COURSE"
The reference to the Ems dispatch is
doubtless to the publication by Prince
Bismarck's authority. upon the eve of
the outbreak of the Franco. Prussian
war, of the draft of a treaty between
Prussia and France, guaranteeing to
the II country its conquests, and per.
uniting to the other annexation of
Holland, a draft of which Bismarck
claimed to possess. written by M. Ben
edith, the French ambassador to Ger.
many, by his W hand. The publica.
ton of this secret document, bearing
date of the end of 1866, raised a great
parliamentary storm in France, and
necessitated ministerial explanations.
1t was claimed on behalf of M. Bene.
ditti that the German chancellor had
dictated to the French ambassador
these conditions of a future entente.
and had then put aside the plan to bide
his time for its use.