The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12
GERMAN JINGoISM GROWING.
RUSSIA MAY CLIP THE KAISER'S
WINGS IN CHINA.

The Madcap Kaiser Represented
as FavOring a Joint Naval War
Against the United States-BarOn
Won BuIOw Responsible for Ger
many's Vigorous Foreign Policy.
Special Berlin Cable, Copyrighted, 1897, by
the Associated Press.
Berlin, Dec. 11.-Throughout the week
a peculiar condition of affairs has pre-
vailed, so far as the press is concerned.
"The Chinese adventure" as the social
ist, Herr Schoenlank, termed the seizure
of the Kiao Chou bay. has engrossed pub
lie interest, yet the government has not
deigned the least explanation as to what
has been done. or as to what is intended
in the future. What sparse information
the foreign office has furnished proved to
be misleading or stale.
This was especially the case with the
Haytian incident. The very day the Ger
man scholarships at Port au Prince secured
obedience to the ultimatum the govern
ment, through its various organs, pro-
claimed that a naval demonstration was
not likely, and that in any case, a decision
could not be reached for several weeks.
In regard to China, although the English
press has been steadily furnishing details,
the government here claimed not to have
any advices from Pekin as to the real
condition of affairs.
AS the German minister to China Baron
Won Heyking, had full power to deal with
the Chinese government as he thought
best, this was a strange condition of af-
fairs. However, it is nearing its end, as
Baron Won Bulow, the minister for foreign
affairs, will shortly make a statement in
the Reichstag.
The various attempts of the opposition
members of the Reichstag to draw out the
governments course during the week were
unheeded. The correspondent here of the
Associated Press, however, has ascertain
ed from reliable sources several import
ant facts. First, since Baron Won Bulow
has taken the foreign office the emperor
has not been permitted to meddle with the
direction of affairs. His majesty was only
informed of each important step after 1t
was taken. In other words, the emperor
has approved" not directed" That the
emperor was not to interfere In foreign
politics was made a sinqua non by Baron
Won Bulew before accepting office His
of Baron Won Bulow's vigorous policy, for
throughout the week, whenever
the emperor drove through the
street Of Berlin, he was
enthusiastic cheered by the populace,
who are heart and soul in accord with
the plans of the minister for foreign af-
fairs.
For instance, while driving through I'm
ter-den-Linden on Wednesday the empe-
ror was hailed by a crowd with Bravo,
your majesty. Pitch into the Chinese"
The emperor responded by smiIingly bow
ing.
The second important news is the GER
tainty that Russia will not tolerate per-
manent occupation of Kiao-Chou bay by
Germany. The military attache of a big
power assures the correspondent of the
Associated Press that secret information
has reached here from st. Petersburg set
tling that point He says Russia is now
making preparations to that effect
Information has reached the United
States embassy to the same effect. 1t is
understood however, that Washington
will interpose no obstacle TO Germany )
opening China to civilization.
Baron Won BuloW's first appearance in
the Reichstag, where five new cabinet min
listers made their debuts this week, met
with an appreciative reception. Even the
opposition press greets him with sympa D
thy.
The quick settlement of the Haytian
trouble was received with satisfaction by
the entire press and the nation The jingo
and agrarian papers, however, again take
occasion to preach the necessity of a set
tlement with the United States
The Deutsche Zeitung, the main organ
of the German extension policy, says, af-
ter TRADE of abuse of the United States
for intermeddling in Hayti, that it hopes
Baron Won BuloW will draw appropriate
conclusions for hts future policy in regard
to America, whose interfering insolence
needs taking down." In this connection the
remarks Emperor William is alleged to
have made in conversation some time ago
to the effect that this American meddle-
some policy must cease or we will be
obliged to teach them manners" and in
which he pointedly referred to the neces-
sty for a joint naval war against the
United States are freely circulating in di-
plomatic and political circles in Berlin.
There has been quite a change in the
Reichstag's views on the naval bill, and it
is now thought, if the government takes
pains to conciliate the center with a prom
Use of its influence to bring about the re-
peal of the Jesuit expulsion act, or prom
ise to favor the Catholic school preten-
sions, the measure may pass, although it
is said the septennate provision will have
to be modified which, it is believed, the
government is unwilling to do.
The German cruiser Geier, which sailed
from Kiel on Thursday last, will be per-
manently stationed in the West Indies to
protect German interests in that part of
the world.
The visit of Prince Henry of Prussia to
Prince Bismarck on Wednesday last at
Friedrichsruhe was sympatheucally re-
ceived. His request to touch with his lips
the forehead his grandfather so often kiss
ed is finding widespread approval.
The Berlin butchers and meat dealers
have passed a resolution requesting the
government to reopen the frontiers to meat
imports and to severely restrict the traffic
In American meat. They say 2S,OOO, 900
marks worth was imported in 1896 at
prices which they cannot compete with.
The government has just completed a re-
port on the trichinous American meat
seized during the six months from January
to July. Excerpts of the report furnished
to the United States ambassador here, An
drew d. White show an enormous in
crease in American trichinous meat cases.
notably at Stetting. Cologne Breslau. Es-
sen, Aix-la-Chapelle, Dusseldorf, Boichum
and Bremen. However, while a certain
percentage of cases are really of Ameri-
can origin, the fact Is palDabie that the
whole report is bungied ana many of the
cases reported are not proved to be OF