The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-02
BRIT0NS NOT LIKED IN BERLIN.
THE TEUTONS WONT TRY TO
THRASH THEM, HOWEVER.


ginE Again.
Berlin, March 1.-The emphatic dec
laration recently made by Baron
Won Bieberstein, minister of foreign
affairs. that the government has no
intention of making any increased de-
mands for the purpose of strengthening
the navy have failed to convince members
of any political party that the idea of en-
largement of the navy has been aban-
doned. 1t is clearly understood that the
emperor is determined to obtain an en-
larged naval estimate, and the hope is en-
tertained in official quarters that the dis
closures in regard to the British naval
plans made by George J. Goschen, first
lord Of the British admiralty. in his
speech at Lewes, together with his in
sulting illusions to Germany will so
| thoroughly excite the Indignation and re-
sentiment of the members of the Reich
stag as to cause them to grant any in
| crease of the naval estimates that may be
| demanded.
The Weser Zeitung of Bremen is author
ity for the statement that the Alt Dutsche
| Verein, with the approval of the emperor,
and the highest naval authorities and ex-
| perts of the empire, propose to vote on
| demand for 2O0,O00,O0O marks for the con-
struetion of new war ships and if the
| Reichstag refuses to authorize the grant
| the ministry will be dismissed and the
| Reichstag dissolved.
In the meantime the heat in the highest
/ political atmosphere against England is
! becoming intensified. In an interview
| upon the subject with a reporter of the
| United Press yesterday, a prominent Ger
/ man diplomat defined the situation briefly,
| as follows: England" he said, lis rap
/ idly approaching a state in which she
/ must fight for her position as an empire.
| Germany has no i'll feeling toward Great
| Britain, and has no wish to see her dis
! membered but the other nations now
| seeing her weak points everywhere on
| the globe think the time has come to
| square up EnglandS s old accounts. Ger
| many won't initiate the fight, nor has she
| any desire to make an anti-English al
| lance. On the contrary, she will stand
| aloof and let England demonstrate that
| she is still entitled to the supremacy she
| claims. These may be tall words" he
| said, but they echo the exact opinion Of
the emperor and the leading statesmen
of Germany, who have arrived at the con-
! clusion that England must soon prove
that she possesses her supposed vitality
The arrest of the absconding Berlin
| lawyer, Fritz Friedman, in Bordeaux
yesterday is now the absorbing topic of
| interest and discussion in Berlin. Fried
| mann, after leaving Berlin, Travelled from
| point to point through Europe in COM
| pany with a Berlin woman of the town.
| but in spite of this fact and the other
| scandalous and criminal acts of the law
| yer, the press treat the couple as though
they were the most reputable persons
| in the land Since his arrest, Friedman
| has disclosed how he disposed of the
documents compromising other people,
| which he had in his possession when he
fed from Berlin. 1t transpireS that he
| caused the publication in Paris of the
| whole of the ScandalOus letters which fig
| ured in the Won Kotz scandal some time
ago, and caused the dismissal of that gem
| tleman from the office of court chamber
! berlin, No publisher would dare to rep
| roduce the letters in Germany, as they
are too disgusting to bear reading. Most
| OF the letters are addressed to the Coun-
! tess Fritz Hohenau. The Berlin govern
| ment is endeavoring to arrange some
| terms upon which the letters can be
| bought up, as, although the statements
| contained in them are for the most parL
| untrue, their revelations would be alto
| gether too overwhelming for society to
| withstand The French police have seized
the entire Paris edition of the letters
| and turned them over to the German
| embassy. For obvious reasons it is not
! probable that Friedman will be extra
| dited to Germany.
1t is stated that a firm in Montana has
| contracted to ship to Germany 100000
| bushels of barley, and If the venture pays
| the men in the deal will arrange to ship a
! much larger consignment of Minnesota
| barley
The Berlin Nachrichten makes the state
! ment that the revised decree in regard to
| the American insurance companies shows
| clause declaring that all United States
| companies will be locked out of Prussia
| unless the German companies are granted
| equal facilities with other companies in
| the United States. This implies that New
| York state must repeal its recent legisla-
| ton affecting German companies.
In an article on the subject of bimet-
| allism the Vossiche Zeitung asserts that
| the want of harmony in the English cabi-
net encourages the hope that the none
| tary question will be reopened. Beyond
| printing vaguely Worded allegations that
George n. Curzon, the British parliament
| tary secretary for foreign affairs, and A
j. Balfour, first lord of the treasury have
quarreled in view of the negotiations for
monetary agreement, the papers con-
cerned in the debate of the question are
all al sea, but diatributes upon this mat
| ter are made vehicles for the conveyance
of abuse of England and English poll
! ticians. The Tageblatt in euphistjc
! phraseology, intimates that Mr. Balfour
| is no speaker of the truth, and the Vos-
siche Zeftung says that the English gov
/ ernment has given Mr.. Balfour the lie an
! experience which has not fallen to the LOT
of a minister within the memory of man.
The Norwerts, the socialist organ, prints
! violent article, which it is expected will
| cause the seizure of the paper and the
/ prosecution of its editors. The article ac-
/ cuses the government of creating an ad-
| mnistration in Germany upon the nro-
i cedure and conditions prevailing in Tlr-
| key The article avoids making a person.
| al criticism of the kaiser, but covers its
1 attack upon him and the government gen
! orally with insinuations, declaring that
/ the growth of free life is necessary to
national expansion.
DR.. Carl Peters, the African explorer,
| who was recently elected president of the
! German Colonial Association declares
| that he has knowledge that England will
be forced to evacuate Egypt within the
| month of March. DIR. Peters petrels how
ever, do not always Indicate a storm
/ The feature of the financial and politi-
/ cal situation during the past week has been
| an unbroken rise in prices and slow but
| sure bourse and trade movement The
rumors of war have not touched the deal
ings on the bourse and the trade reports
/ are mostly favorable. The monthly set
/ tlement on the bourse. which was con-
1 cluded on Thursday, showed the bourse
/ to be in the best condition it has expert
/ enced for years
The stock of gold in the Reichsbank is
| growing rapidly and the dividends of the
| banks and Industrial enterprises are high
/ ly satisfactory.
Upon the resumption of the discussion
/ of the sugar bill in the Reichstag to-mor-
row. Count Won Posadow sky Wehner.
minister of the imperial treasury, will
make an announcement that the govern
4 ment of the South German states and their
Representatives will offer no opposition
! to the proposed alterations of the law, but
4 on the contrary some Of them are willing