The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-28
GERMAN OPINION.
Set in Strongly Against the
"lkaiser's Policy"
Newspapers Which Have Hitherto
Given Their Support to the Policy
OF Intervention In, Crete Have
Taken New Tack; and Deplore
the Work of the Past.


Berlin, March 27-The current OF
German opinion has set in strongly
against what is known as the "kaiser's
policy regarding Greece, not in the
columns of the, Liberal press alone, but
IN those OF newspapers which have
hitherto been giving their support to
the policy of intervention in Crete of
the present powers. The journals have
taken a new tack, and are now deplor-
ing the part which the united squad
Ions OF the powers are playing and are
likely to play in Cretan and Greek wat
ers.
The National Zeitung, commenting
upon the official announcement of the
share taken in. the naval concert by
Germany'S cruiser Augusta Victoria in
bomharding the -Cretan insurgents,
which characterizes the affair as an
unheard-of disgrace, added that moth
ing more is needed to prove that the
intervention of the powers is futile.
The VoSSiche Zeitung. in an article
on the same subject, says:
This senseless and brutal act of in
terventlon on the part of Germany in
Greece may we'll be the last that Ger
| many takes part in. Nobody could wit
ness the departure of more German
ships and German troops for Cretan
waters without nlisgivings and anxiety
me German navy can leave such a
! task without jealousy to other ma
tions'
The paper concludes its article by
saying: The first step, to be taken is
the immediate withdrawal of the Turk
lsh troops from Crete. That public
sentiment will influence the kaiser is
outside the bounds of probability, but
when the government speakers in the
reichstag try to influence that body as
they did in today's debate on Me
naval credits, by adducing the paucity
of the German share in the naval
demonstration of the powers in the
east, as compared with the fleets of
other nations, their arguments fall
fiat, as they did today, in the face of
the fact that Germany prefers not to
cooperate with the other powers in
any measures of coercion of Greece"
The rejection of the governments
demands for increased naval credits
by the reichstag is a foregone conclu-
sion, but there is no public excitement
over the matter. In connection with
the rejection of the credits, the old
stories are being revived that Prince
Hohenlohe, the imperial chancellor, is
DESTROYS of being relieved of the cares
of office, pleading advanced age and
the infirmities thereof. and it is said
that if Prince Hohenlohe retires, Baron
Marschall Won Bieberstein, minister of
foreign affairs, will resign also.
The emperor is in expectation that the
reichstaR will reject the naval credit
proposition and is concluding an arrange
ment with the KruDps for the construc-
ton of two cruisers after plans fur
nished by the government under an agree
ment that If the reichstag shall refuse
to grant the credits necessary to pay for
them when the estimates for 1898 are sub
tod .,llr sail
the ships to any foreign power. wishing
to purchase them. In the meantime the
Krupps are to have years credit at the
imperial treasury.
The Importance of the vote in the reich
stag today in favor of paying salaries
or fees to members of that body is likely
to be misconstrued. Already the reich
stag has nine times affirmed the principle
of payment of salaries or fees TO mem
bers of that chamber. and as often has
the bundesrath vetoed the measure and
the same fate certainly awaits the reso-
luton that was adopted yesterday, pro-
viding that the state pay fees and traveI-
ing expenses. TO members of the lower
body The motion was offered by Herr
Richster the Radical leader. but it found I
supporters in all of the groups. The col
umns of the newspapers are still given !
up TO criticisms of the Emperor William |
| centenary feteS. which were held on !
Tuesday and Wednesday. Apart |
from the seni-official organs, many of !
the papers protest, against the excessive !
glorification of the old kaiser. The /
Vossische Zeitung advises that the phrase
William the Great be left to the verdict |
of future generations.
The illness with which Prince Bismarck !
is afflicted is not serious and is due to a !
chill which seized him while walking in /
the park. Count Herbert Bismarck. the
ex-chancellor's eldest son, left Friedrichs
ruhe yesterday.
NJ H. G. Squires, second secretary of
the United States embassy. and Mrs.
Scuires. were the guests. of Freiherr Won
der Recke der Horst, Prussian minister of
the interior. at dinner this week, and
United States Ambassador Uhl and Sec
rotary Squires were entertained at dinner
by the Italian ambassador, Count Lansi
nj RnSna