The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-18

BERLIN, Oct. 17.-Although no facts
are known which indicate the slightest
change in the courteous relations which
for some time have existed between
Germany and Great Britain, the sud-
den outburst of strong ani-British
opinion which has been Joined in by
the German newspapers of all parties
has become the leading topic of dis
cussion in political circles. Denuncia-
tons of England's selfishness and ar
rogance, allusion to her isolation and
suggestions of how to diminish the pre-
tensions of Great Britain, appeared in
the North German Gazette, the Cologne
Gazette, and other papers of less I'M
portance with degree of unanimity
which gives the idea that the utter
! ances emanate from some common and
responsible source. If these attacks
had in reality any official origin, their
line of argument would be worth quot
ing. but is is emphatically denied at
the foreign Office that there is the
slightest foundation for the prevailing
ruInorS of an alteration in the relations
between the German and English gov
ernments. Apart from such denial on
the part of the foreign officers, scru-
tiny, into the cause of the present boil
ing over of the German press, proves
that it is not founded upon anything
whatever that is going on between the
Berlin and London governments, but
that it is purely and simply case of
newspaper war, in which the journals
are allowed unlimited license, the gov
eminent not caring how far they may
go.
HOW IT CAME UP.
What these newspapers are saying
now, arose from the publication of
articles in the leading London papers
reporting the possible establishment of
an English, Russian and French alli-
ance with the Italy 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 premier, now de-
ceased, once said, that English poll
/ ties is not guided by such chatter and
responsible frivolity. But coming on
1 the heels of the articles from the
French papers over the recent visit of
the car 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 prac-
! teal significance of the violent eruption
of criticism on the part of the Ger
man papers, however, lies in its ten
/ dency to heighten German hatred to-
ward England, enabling the govern
ment, at an opportune moment, to get
the country to act in open hostility to
England either diplomatic or actively
physical
When a calm Catholic paper like the
Cologne Volks zeitung, now the leading
organ of the Centrist party in the west
| of Germany, denounces England as
conspiring against Germany at the
Quirinal, and exciting the Italian gov
eminent to desert the dreibund. While
the Berlin Tageblatt, the Berlin Post
! and other organs urge the immediate
ousting of the British from Egypt, it
is evident that German feeling is ripe
for anything against the English
UTTERLY DISCREDITED.
The story published in today's issue
of the Vienna Neue Freie Presse, alleg-
| ing that the Russian office ordered all
OF the regiments in the district of kieff
Odessa and Charkoff to be at once put
upon full war-footing, and that all
| leaves of absence and the retired list
| have been called TO service, is utterly
| diScredited 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
processes TO be aware of "a step to-
! Russian forces, and portends that Rus
STA will receive European mandate TO
occupy Constantinople, is regarded as
too absurd TO be worthy of notice. The
Pesther Lloyd, and the Vienne Poll
tische Correspondent concur in stat
ing that a concert of the powers has
been agreed upon, not upon the prob
able basis of the maintenance of the
| territorial status quo of Turkey, but
] Of -f-i,
administrator. This statement con-
ours with the adviees recently cabled
in these dispatches, which were OBJ
tanned from official sources.
The official programme of the reich
stag, the opening session of which
will take place on November g. in
cludes bills dealing with emigration, an
amendment to the Workingmen insur-
ance system and a measure providing
for reform of the system of military
jurisdiction.
AN INCIDENT.
The necessity for the latter measure
| is shown in an incident which occurred
In a cafe in Carlsruhe last Tuesday
evening. A civilian named Siebemann,
upon entering the cafe, jostled against
chair upon which a lieutenant named
Brusewit was sitting. The latter rose
from his seat and roughly pushed Sic
bemann away, at the same time Ge-
handing that he apologize.
Siebemann replied: Leave me
alone" whereupon Brusewit drew his
sword and threw himself upon Siebe-
mann. Several persons who were pres
ent interfered, and Siebemann, for the
time, escaped. Brusewit searched the
cafe for him and finally found Siebe-
mann in passage, when he locked
the door, barring all egresl' or ingress,
and ran him through with his sword.
Brusewit pleads justification, maintain
ing that the etiquette of the military
service required him 10 punish a civilian
! interfering with him, and it remains
to be seen whether the military au-
thorities will uphold him in his cow
ardly act of making an armed assault
upon a defenseless man.
THE BI6ETALLIsTs
The bimetailists have determined to
renew their conferences and sittings
when the reichstag meets. 1t is re-
ported that the emperor's recent study
of the silver question has converted
him to bimetallsm.
Mr.. Macchi, comissary general of the
Tennessee state exhibition, is in Berlin
for the purpose of seeing the authorl-
ties in regard to Germany's taking
part in the exhibition.
Mr. j. B.. Jackson, first secretary of
the United States embassy, gave q
dinner this week to Mr.. John Philip
Sousa, the bandmaster of New York
Among the guests were Messrs Dyer
of New York end Guy II. Thomas OF
Yale college.
United States Ambassador Edwin T.
Uh1 has completely recovered from his
recent indisposition, and is row in his
office at the embassy every day.