The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-02
ADDS A CHAPTER TO THE RUSSO
GERMAN TREATY SENSA-
TION.
SILENCE SLANDERERS,
HE SAYS, WAS THE MOTIVE FOR
REVEALING STATE Sc
CRETS.
CHARGES AGAINST
CAPRIvI
In Retaliation for a. Semf-Omcsay
Attack ON the Ex-Chan-
celIOr.

HAMBURG, Nov. 1.-The Hamburg
er Nachrichten. the organ of Prince
Bismarck, has another article on the
subject of the Russo-German treaty
which terminated in $780, and the dis
closure Of which by the Nachrichten has
created such sensation in Europe.
This article is entitled 1.-THE Russian
Treaty" and describes Prince Bis
marck's entente with Russia as a
brilliant success Of German statesman
ship. The article then proceeds to say:
we do not admit that approachment
with Russia had lost all value by the
conclusion of the Dreibund treaty, nor
will our allies share this opinion Rec
oncsl1atiOn is not unknown nor
undesired by them. On the
contrary. it has been noted
with satisfaction that Germany
always employed the Russian entente to
prevent and settle differences between
Russia and Austria. Had Austria and
Italy thought otherwise, they would
during the reign of Emperor William
l.. have made representation on the
subject This was never done, although
they were aware of our cultivation of
political relations and an entente with
Russia.
Among the motives of our expose of
the Russo-German relations, all Of
which we do not feel called upon to
disclose, is the continual Justification
of historical facts by the clerical and
Liberal, and even the semi-official 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 for
mer favorable relations with Russia; a
rupture which certainly does not i'm
prove Germany's position in Europe
Therefore, we publish the fact that the
rupture was brought about during the
administration of Gen. Won Caprivi,
through his unqualified refusal of Rus
sia's request for the continuance Of the
entente. Against this authentic proof
that the breaking Of Russian ties oc-
CURED under Won Caprivi, the Infamous
calumniation of Germany's policy I'M
der William |. cannot be proved. We
should be deemed correct had an off,
cial 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 drafts of a treaty between
Prussia and France guaranteeing to
the one country it's conquests and per-
uniting to the other the annexation of
Holland, a draft which Bismarck
claimed to possess written by M Ber-
edetti, the French ambassador to Ger
many, by his own 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.
T lot
detti 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 it's use.
VIENNA, Nov. 1.-The Neue Freie
PreSse which published an interview
last week from a correspondent at
Hamburg which was supposed to have
cmanated from Prince Bismarck. to-
day says that it learns from a well
informed source that Bismarck may be
impelled in making his disclosures by
a fear that Germany will repeat the
mistake Of $780, by the eventual aban-
donment of the support of Russia in
favor of an entente with Great Brit
ain, which would be more dangerous
as it would doubtless lead France to
obtaining what she has hitherto been
unable to obtain, namely, an alliance
with Russia, or which the enforcement
against Germany would only be
question of time and circumstances.
Another motive of Prince Bismarck
the Neue Freie Presse thinks was to
show France how little their relations
with Russia were due to themselves
and how much they were due to Ger
many's mistakes in the treatment Of
Russia after the dismissal of Prince
Bismarck from the chancellorship
That the latter Is actuated by hatred
Of Won Caprivi, this journal thinks is
an untenable supposition, as Prince
Bismarck has not regarded Won Ca
priv as the moral author Of the rup-
ture between Prince Bismarck and the
present emperor.