The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-19
DREAM Of EMPIRE
An India in China the Object
of the KaiSer'S Am
bitiOn.
PARTITION IN PROGRESS
Port Arthur Seized by the
Car as the Share of
Russia. 9
HISTORY MAKING INORIENT
Developments Closely Watch
ed by Those in Touch With
the Situation.
HISTORY MAKING INORIENT

NEW YORK, Dec. 1S.-The Evening
Post's copyright London cable says:
The terrible goings on at Kiel over
Prince Henry's departure for China
have been the ALL absorbing topic with
Englishmen this week. Pale fear
says the German National organ in
Vienna, will penetrate to John Bulls
marrow as he reads of it," AS a mat
ter of act, John Bulls first impulse
has been to split his sides with laugh
ter over a farcical melodrama, such as
no coming Christmas pantomime can
hope to rival When the kaiser talks
of Stalking my only brother" and calls
.'heaven to witness how the German
Michael has firmly planted on Chinese
soil the shield, emblaZoned with the
imperial eagle, in order to afford pro-
lection once for all to him who ap-
plies for it," the Englishman rudely
laughs. He recalls that the German
Michael is the mildest hammered of
young men, the idol of his English
grandmama, WHO is taking what even
a half-seasoned sailor would regard as
a pleasant cruise, with one 7OO0-ton, one
twenty ty-three-year-old iron battleship
secure a coaling station which prac-
ticaIly already has been ceded over,
which no one dreams of a single shot
being fired.
When the same mild-mannered young
man apostrophizes his own brother
with Most serene emperor, most pow
erful lord, king and master, forever,
Hoch! Hochn' and eulogiZes "the gos-
pei Of your majesty's hanowed per-
son." blunt John Bull seriously asks
himself whether these young people
have not altogether lost their wits. In
deed, the Saturday Review today
builds up an argument that William
the Witless," as it used to call him,
has now gone stark mad, and it is GER
tainly to be remembered, by the un-
alterable etiquette of the German
court, the emperor must himself have
read Prince Henry's words beforehand.
DREAM OF EMPIRE.
To closer students of European af-
fairs, however, there seems much meth
cd in his madness. The average Eng
lishman who is laughing loudly today
probably will be puZZling his brains
next week as to wether the German
craze for naval power is not thing
to be reckoned with. 1t may have been
more than mere joke when in talking
to Count Zichy the emperor said: you
should visit China; by the time you get
there you will find Prince Henry en-
peror of China" Why should not EN-
peror William found a second India
for Germany in China as a means of
imperial ggrandizement and of avert
ing the social revolution threatened
at home.
The Spectator dilates on this view to-
day, and is quite prepared perhaps
even to welcome the German emperor
as the acknowledged master and open
er to civilization and foreign trade of
the richest, best populated and quietest
section of the Chinese empire. 1t says:
.''Kiao-Chou, with It's harbor and
Hinterland, which Germany is annex
ing, is as large asWales and full Of peo-
pie. 1t is capable of yielding sub
stantial revenue and of becoming the
stepping off place for the acquisition
of the central division of China. These